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Unlocking phone carrier

so I ordered a iphone 7 plus and the person told me it’s unlocked(from USA)

but i am from South-America(Suriname)but when I received the phone it wasn’t unlocked.So I contact the person about it

and he send a request to Xfinity to unlock it,

and Xfinity send this for him

but i it still says that the carrier is sim locked it still cant read my simcard

what might be the problem?

iPhone 7 Plus

Posted on Dec 3, 2021 6:58 PM

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Posted on Dec 3, 2021 7:21 PM

See the information here, How to unlock your iPhone for use with a different carrier - Apple Support Generally, the additional step to be done is to connect the iPhone to the computer with iTunes and restore it to factory. Then you should be able to setup the device.

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Unlocking phone carrier

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