Q: Facetime and Imessage enabeling on UAE iphone 6
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Oct 20, 2014 3:19 AMby yehiasidkey,I always purchase my iphone form the Apple online store not the grey market.
As I said, the Facetime and imessage activation was blocked by the Eyptian operatior, they deblocked it form the network and it is now active on my UAE purchase iphone 6, so the Facetime and imessage activation is actually dependant on the SIM subscription not the phone market.
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Oct 21, 2014 4:42 AMby FelipeV,Sportgrl wrote:
Hello i bought an iphone 6 from UAE apple store and the facetime app is missing? how did u fix this? i currently use the iphone in Cyprus with a Cypriot sim.
There is nothing to fix. FaceTime is permanently crippled from all legitimate iPhones sold in the UAE.
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Dec 15, 2014 8:02 AMby yehiasidkey,@aakash_5inging
there is no encriptiin to be removed by the operator
if you use a none UAE operator SIM on a UAE purchased iphone face time and imessage should work without any problem
The locking is for UAE operators only so if you use and Austrailian operator SIM it shoukd work with no problem
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Dec 15, 2014 8:20 AMby TJBUSMC1973,Wrong. If the iPhone was legitimately purchased in the UAE (i.e. not a grey-market import), then it will NEVER have FaceTime, at least not legitimately.
If your iPhone was bought in the UAE and it is working with FaceTime, then it has either been modified or it was a grey-market.
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Dec 15, 2014 9:23 AMby TJBUSMC1973,Keep believing that, pal. But here are the facts:
Either
A) Your iPhone was not one that was designated by Apple to be sold in the UAE.
B) You have modified the iPhone in some way to bypass the restriction.
C) The rules have changed regarding FaceTime on iPhone sold in the UAE.
D) You have an extremely rare and unconfirmed anomaly.
And those are in order of most likely to least likely.
For everyone else, if you have a legitimately purchased iPhone in the UAE, you will not have FaceTime available.
