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No SIM card installed keeps popping up

I have been using my wifi/cellular iPad mini without a SIM card for the last eight months without a problem. I 'upgraged' to os8 a couple of days ago and now I get a pop up telling me there's no SIM card installed every few minutes. It popped up twice whilst trying to type this message. I have looked everywhere in settings for a way to disable it, thinking that perhaps certain apps were prompting it. Will I have to put a sim card to avoid this? I was told when I bought it, that without a SIM card it would be just like a wifi only ipad. or will I have to reset it to factory settings and load everything again? Thanks in advance.

iPad mini Wi-Fi, iOS 8, IPad mini wifi/cellular

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 11:47 PM

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Posted on Sep 20, 2014 11:52 PM

Turn off cellular data.

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Sep 22, 2014 7:21 AM in response to sunnyinlondon

Same thing here on my iPad mini Retina 64GB wifi/cellular without a SIM card.


I don't use a SIM card with it, and I've never had this issue under IOS7.


Installed IOS8 on September 17. No problems until today, then this "No SIM card installed" popup has started appearing every few minutes.

No change to Settings has been made since the upgrade.

Turning off/on or resetting doesn't solve the issue.

Sep 24, 2014 8:07 AM in response to sunnyinlondon

Same issue here. Turning off Location Services completely stops the messages, but this is hardly a good solution. Looks like IOS 8 thinks that any SIM capable iPad has a mobile connection which it can ping for location data, whether or not it has a SIM installed.


In short, it looks like a bug. ISTR that a reboot on IOS 7 would show the no SIM card message once only on start up.

No SIM card installed keeps popping up

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