No SIM card installed keeps popping up

No, this does NOT solve the problem, it only reduces the frequency of the pop-ups. I have mobile data turned off and I updated to 8.1.1. Every time I open the App Store on my iPad and want to make updates of my apps I get this annoying No Sim message.

I didn't say it worked for everyone. I was addressing the fact that ComputerBoy122 posted the same solution without reading the thread.

For me installing a SIM worked. Installed some old out-of-service SIM , this allowed me to turn cell data off, and no more pop ups.

However, cannot update to 8.1.1 but that may be irrelevant.

I Have to correct something I've said in my last post: after iOS 8.1.1 the pop-up doesn't appear less frequently at all - now it appears CONTINUOUSLY. I can't get rid of that ****** pop-up that it suddenly reappears again.

My congratulations to the developers. I guess that with iOS 8.2 you'll just think about adding new features, rather than fixing everything you've been breaking so far. How nice...

I agree....the last thing that should have to be done is to insert a SIM but this is the solution that works. It is NOT the best or desired resolution but hey...how many times do you bash your head against a brick wall. Insert a SIM and wait for Apple to solve it...I did and it does work.

arachnida wrote:

No, this does NOT solve the problem,

Are you saying that the people who posted this are mistaken? Maybe you are mistaken, or maybe it's just not the same for everyone, did you consider that?

Does anybody else that is having this problem sync with iTunes over Wi-Fi? If so, you might try turning it off and see if that makes any difference.

I noticed that I didn't get the 'No SIM card installed' alert at all when I wasn't on my home wireless network, such as visiting parents or friends, and that seemed to be a bit curious so I thought it may be something to do with the devices that are attached to the wireless network at home.

It occurred to me that it might be iTunes related because the alert was guaranteed to appear the moment I opened iTunes on my MacBook, which is fairly rarely these days because I use the iPad as my playback device and download stuff straight to it or use iTunes Match. The Mac also typically stays at the house, and when I take it somewhere else I usually don't open iTunes.

In the past couple of days I have kept half an eye on it, and it does seem that whenever iTunes is opened, or left open, the alert keeps appearing, sometimes a couple of times a minute, other times there's a gap of minutes or a couple of hours. And when the Mac is asleep it doesn't happen. So as an experiment I've turned off Wi-Fi sync, left iTunes running, quit it, opened it, left it running again, and so far I haven't had the alert at all.

I'm running iTunes 12 at this point, I can't remember whether it also did it with 11, but as there was a gap of a few weeks between iOS8 launch and iTunes 12 launch I suppose it must've done it with 11 too. Maybe I'm just in a period where the iPad has decided not to show the alert, but I thought I'd share my experience just in case it has actually worked.

I can live without Wi-Fi sync if I must, most of the content comes from iCloud anyway, and when I do want to sync and backup it is no real hardship to plug in a cable and it'll be a faster transfer too.

Doesn't stop it from having been annoying though.

graemearg wrote:

Does anybody else that is having this problem sync with iTunes over Wi-Fi? If so, you might try turning it off and see if that makes any difference.

I noticed that I didn't get the 'No SIM card installed' alert at all when I wasn't on my home wireless network, such as visiting parents or friends, and that seemed to be a bit curious so I thought it may be something to do with the devices that are attached to the wireless network at home.

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Well as a data point, I do use iTunes wifi sync at home. But I'm traveling this week a few thousand miles from home, presumably out of range of my home wifi 🙂 and I'm still getting the No SIM errors.

Hi might be a bit late but I found turning the airplane mode on and off repeatedly about 50 odd times and then trying to access the cellular button straight after, eventually brought the /Cellular option back in, and then I could turn off the cellular which in turn stopped the annoying pop ups!!! Yay!!!

@ HEWR, I tried what you suggested and so far so good! - Thank you.🙂

@ APPLE this is still inexcusable that this has not been fixed in how many iOS 8 releases now!!!!???➖ 😠 ➖

Ever since the release of iOS8 I get this dreaded "No SIM" Message every couple of seconds.

Since then, I frequently search for solutions, but they never work.

"Updates" are coming, but nothing changes, this thread grows longer and longer with more and more people having the same problem.

I know that Apple is notorious for not giving a penny about its customers and is also known to totally ignore their own "Support-Forums".

But can it really be that difficult to already fix this, which is clearly a bug in their system and nothing else?

Every two-bit company would rather be done with it than having more people experiencing the problem.

By means of hardware, I still love my iPad Air and would not want anything else.

By means of iOS, everything went downhill after iOS6 with problems that had happened never before.

It's a total shame really.

EDIT: My first post was "removed by host" because it was "not constructive"

If you have time to remove posts you don't like, why don't you spend it for FIXING THE BUGS instead?

This way, you would not need to remove any posts about it!

"Not constructive", really ?

Well, yes, of course, instead of wasting our time complaining we should fix this regression bug by ourselves...

But since it must be a too hard task, perhaps it's better if we find a nano-SIM to temporarily solve this 'glitch'.

The fact that here in Europe a new nano-SIM costs around 10,00 Euros is certainly a matter of no importance.

Thanks!

If you have time to remove posts you don't like, why don't you spend it for FIXING THE BUGS instead?

This way, you would not need to remove any posts about it!

Do you really believe the moderators - those at a third party company who run this forum for Apple - are the same software engineers fixing bugs in iOS?

Do you really believe the moderators - those at a third party company who run this forum for Apple - are the same software engineers fixing bugs in iOS?

I was speaking figuratively of course!

But it does not change the fact, that resolving the original problem would be preferrable to running a tight ship in the forums alone.

Lots of places do free sims and as per my original post it doesn't even have to be a working sim, I have been using an old Vodafone sim cut down with a pair of scissors in an ipad which is locked to the three network yet I have not had the message since inserting the sim, all I get is no service top left where it normally says what network you have!!!

Yes I agree that hiding the problem rather than fixing it, but it is a solution and it does work. And as above its not hard to get hold of a free sim.