I can't unlock my sim after having erased my iphone from Find my iphone

Hi cfromchaponost,

This article about SIM locking may be able to provide some more information to you about this issue:

iOS: Understanding the SIM PIN

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1316

Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!

Cheers,

Braden

Hi, we were having this problem and your solution doesn't help because we are not being presented with the sim unlock screen.

My husband's phone was stolen in an airport and not returned when he put it in lost mode, so he remote erased it. Roaming the airport he found the person who had his phone because it was pinging for him. Now we cannot get the phone to reload itself from itunes. It said it was sim locked, but it will not let us enter the passcode. We have checked with the phone company, but they do not consider the sim locked, so this is just local to the iphone (a 5C.)

We found following these instructions worked: If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Note that you really have to keep holding down the home button – past the white apple reboot, until it shows the red itunes screen as shown on the page.

this is redundant but there doesn't seem to be a delete option.