Trouble using Verizon SIM with older iPhones; Apple ID sign out warning
Four months plus, attempting to move a Verizon sim card to a working older iPhone or two.
iPhone 7+ - turns out there were two hardware versions made; one Intel, one Qualcom. The phone was purchased at an Apple store when it was released and there was no mention that the Intel version would not work on Verizon's network, or that we were receiving the Intel version. We were on AT&T. Fastforward to this summer, we tried putting a Verizon sim card in, and of course we discovered the above.
We found an old iPhone 5s, put the Verizon sim in there and discovered AT&T still had the phone carrier-locked thriteen years later; it was purchased new for cash; they released it upon request.
But failure does not end there. Somehow Apple locked the phone to an older, but still active Apple ID. And attempting to "Sign Out" warns that "Signing out will delete all the data on the phone." But Apple says here in this link, you have a choice: Sign out of iCloud on your devices - Apple Support
It says "Tap Sign Out" then "Choose Erase this [Device] or Sign Out But Don't Erase."
We're supposed to trust this? We're supposed to trust that there's another step after the warning that all data will be deleted from the iPhone after signing out? That we'll have another popup with the choice then to "Sign Out But Don't Erase"?
Earlier iPhone models
