how do you activate facetime without a sim?

My daughter has an old iPhone 5s that she uses as an iPod and camera. It does not have a SIM card. She has her own Apple ID and is registered as a child in our family. How can we activate facetime on the iPhone? At the moment it just gets stuck on the waiting for activation screen. Thanks a lot.

iPhone 5s

Posted on Dec 25, 2018 5:34 AM

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Dec 26, 2018 7:21 AM in response to richardmclarke

Greetings, richardmclarke.


I see that you're unable to get FaceTime to activate on your old iPhone 5s you've given to your daughter. You have it set up so that it doesn't have a cellular connection but it can connect to Wi-Fi. I'm happy to help.


If you get an error when trying to activate iMessage or FaceTime -- Review the information under "Check your device settings".


Take care!

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