iPhone 4S non si attiva

iPhone 4s Non Si Attiva

Posted on Oct 22, 2026 2:11 AM

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Posted on Oct 31, 2026 4:50 PM

Automated translation (from Italian): "Phone 4s Doesn't Activate".


Other threads in these forums indicate that it is no longer possible to activate phones as old as the iPhone 4s. It sounds like Apple has permanently shut down support for it on their activation servers.


Note that the iPhone 4s is a thoroughly obsolete device.

  • Its cellular radios only support 2G/3G. In many. parts of the world, carriers have shut down 2G/3G networks, making the iPhone 4s useless as a cell phone.
  • It no longer meets the minimum requirement for accessing iCloud services (including backup and restore).
  • It has a 32-bit processor and cannot update to iOS 10 or later. It is not clear that an activated iPhone 4s could even access the App Store – or that there would be much of anything compatible with it there.
  • When a key security certificate expires at the end of January 2027, it seems certain that the iPhone 4s will not get a patch. (Apple released patches all the way back to iOS 12, but as far as I know, no further.)

It might be nice if you could get it going again, but there's not much you could do with it even if that was possible.

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Oct 31, 2026 4:50 PM in response to rikyfuoco

Automated translation (from Italian): "Phone 4s Doesn't Activate".


Other threads in these forums indicate that it is no longer possible to activate phones as old as the iPhone 4s. It sounds like Apple has permanently shut down support for it on their activation servers.


Note that the iPhone 4s is a thoroughly obsolete device.

  • Its cellular radios only support 2G/3G. In many. parts of the world, carriers have shut down 2G/3G networks, making the iPhone 4s useless as a cell phone.
  • It no longer meets the minimum requirement for accessing iCloud services (including backup and restore).
  • It has a 32-bit processor and cannot update to iOS 10 or later. It is not clear that an activated iPhone 4s could even access the App Store – or that there would be much of anything compatible with it there.
  • When a key security certificate expires at the end of January 2027, it seems certain that the iPhone 4s will not get a patch. (Apple released patches all the way back to iOS 12, but as far as I know, no further.)

It might be nice if you could get it going again, but there's not much you could do with it even if that was possible.

iPhone 4S non si attiva

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