Q: iOS 10 update turns phone into "demo phone"
I updated my iPhone 6SE to iOS10 and suddenly both outgoing and incoming calls (i am a customer of Latvian Mobile Telephone/LMT in Latvia) are cut off after 5 minutes with a popup saying the phone is a "demo". This is pretty crazy, as I have a flat rate contract with unlimited local calls.
I spent a lot of time on Skype with some very helpful Apple Support people in the US and factory restored the phone, even got it to recover most of my apps and contacts (too many contacts, as it gathered every contact from all my devices, and all I needed was phone numbers), but some vital files (Notes) were blank so I restored from earlier backups on my MacBook. These seemed to revive the "demo demon".
Has anyone encountered this and what can be done?
iPhone SE, iOS 10
Posted on Sep 15, 2016 12:28 PM