No SIM Card Detected in iPad 2

Have you tried removing the SIM and reseating it?

Use the SIM removal tool that came with your iPad or a small paperclip. You insert it into the whole on the SIM card tray. The tray will pop out. Take the card our, make sure there's nothing on it, put it back in the tray and push it in unil it click back into place.

My iPad 2 ran into the same problem last week when I was on a road trip from CA to NJ.

I tried all sorts of suggestions but only got it to work once after switching Airplane mode on and off > 100 times. Then within 24 hrs I got the same SIM card not found error again.

Got home finally (without my 3G) then I did some experiment.

Now I think I might have found a way that works on my iPad2 everytime.

Here is what I did:

1. I put iPad2 on a flat table top.

2. Home button on the left and iPad in portrait mode

3. in Setting, turn 'ON' Airplane Mode.

4. put your palm or thumb about 1-inch below and 1-inch to the left from the upper right hand screen corner and put a little pressure while switching the Airplane mode to "OFF" position.

I got the 3G "searching..." then connected to AT&T again

Works everytime when i got the "no sim card" error so far

i have successfully got it connected 3 times already.

Hopes this works for you too.

Good luck!

Oh my goodness thank you!!! I also now have this "common" fault as well as faulty microphone and this has worked. Clearly will give up the ghost at some point.....14 months after spending more than £650 on this kit :-(

Hi, I have bought iPad 3 and have been facing this problem entire day today....I got the sim working by going to settings>general>reset>reset network settings .....and it worked!

I again had a problem after 2 hours and this time I had to reset all settings.....since the sim was still not working and i had no wifi....I had to first download iTunes to my laptop then connect the iPad to it and reset the iPad.....and this worked...the sim got detected....hope this helps

Oh well unfortunately the "applying pressure" to the top corner only fixes it for 30 minutes....clearly faulty sim reader / wiring. Don't want to pay £650 for a new one so having found a few places in the UK that say they repair and put in new sim reader for c £70 I'll be going with that option.

I also have the exact same problem. And by reading thrwo some forums I found the suggestion that the magnetic smartcover is interfering with the sim card reader (not the actual card, because I just had it replaced).

If Apple knows about this problem and isn't doing something or issuing a warning to people... that's reaaaally baaaad!

pff.. same problem here.

2 years ago I bought this Ipad. And after a year or so, the sim card couldn't be detected anymore. The Ipad was still in warranty, so i've sent it back after following the necessary procedures.

I've received quickly a new one.(2 weeks).

And now, after more then a (new) year(out of warranty), I have the same problem again..

😟

(we use a magnetic smartcover, but to say that it breaks it after more than a year, I'm not enough convinced)

(removing the magnetic smartcover doesn't help so far either.)

🙂 oopss, surfing some other threads about this issue. I did following..

removed the magnetic smartcover.

Set the contrast of the screen to the lowest.

And repeatedly switched airplaymode on/off..(receiving no sim errormessage)

untill I received a message sim locked!

And so i could unlock it.

I don't know if it will last forever, but it works for now.

I will try using the smartcover however, because i've been using this already for more than a year or so.

This problem is also occurring to a lot of people with iOS 7. I think the baseband firmware is getting corrupted. Restoring doesn't help.

I was having this issue and tried all the actions recommended here and all over the web. what i found that worked for me and has been fine since. Believe it or not, gold does oxidize to some extent and the gold contacts on your sim card do to. in my industry it is not uncommon to have pc board connection problems caused by a bad contacts.

with that thought, i pulled my sim card and placed it on my kitchen counter gold side up. i took a pencil eraser and mildly scrubbed the gold contacts. i held the card in place with a finger, did one side, spun it around, held it and rubbed the other side and i could see the gold actually get shiny again. put the SIM card back in and have not have the sim card not found problem again.

although this post is old... probably someone is analysind this problem as well:

my iPad 2 worked fine until I updated to iOS 8 and bought a keyboard case with smart-function (=magnetic).

No SIM errors started then. First I thought it was a iOS 8 problem. Now a repair company told me it is a hardware defect. Since the magnet of the case is located near the sim card reader, I think this magnet may damage the sim card reader after a while.