My iPhone 5 keeps on asking for activation....

Just got off the phone with Apple. Verizon Wireless just hung up, wouldn't help at all. This iPhone replaced my iPhone 5 that exploded. My receipt says that this phone is covered by a 90 day warranty, but Apple just told me it's not covered by any warranty. We'll see how far that goes (it's only been 47 days). Earliest appointment to meet with the "geniuses" is tomorrow afternoon.

My phone has just developed this issue. The only thing I can add to the mix here is, I am currently in another country on holidays.

It was fine until I woke up here. I'm hoping that when I get home it might be ok. I'll keep you posted.

Could it be a regional thing?

Try to update your iPhone 5 to iOS9 Public Beta. It won't ask for activation again...

Agreed. This has worked for me. This was a massively frustrating issue.

I wish I could say the same. I have the 6+. I updated to the latest beta version and I still get these activation prompts.

you're fortunate to have it replaced. As for me, when I tried to have it checked by the people in Apple Store at Willowbrook Houston Texas branch, they just shrugged off and didn't even bother to refer me to a tech. He even insist that there's nothing wrong on my Iphone. They all know all the while that there's some bug in their IOS and Iphone5s

It worked. Thank you for sharing

See reply of ARMartinez below. It worked for me.

ARMartinez0984USNNov 14, 2014 5:14 PM Re: My iPhone 5 keeps on asking for activation....
Re: My iPhone 5 keeps on asking for activation....in response to mpwbd

Ok I spoke to Apple support today, the issue apparently is Find My iPhone. So if you log into your iCloud account through iCloud.com this is what i was told to do.

Go to iCloud.com>Find My iPhone>All Devices

Once you are there Choose your device

Turn off your phone

once your phone is off remove your device from Find My iPhone

So far this has worked, now don't get me wrong i just did this today so hopefully its a fix.

I just tried this, (turnoff icloud and find my phone) hope it works. I just got my first activation event yesterday. If this doesn't work, may upgrade to android.

iphone 5 (64GB), verizon

this didn't work for me. Apple support has been useless. Does anyone have a real solution for this problem?

Same problem here. iPhone 5s, two years old. It started for no reason about a week ago with bad reception ("searching"), then asked for activation a few times. Tried the SIM in an other phone and the SIM works perfectly. Cellular reception is totally gone for a few days, and it takes longer and longer before it activates. I tried all proposed fixes: restarting, airplane mode on/off, remove from find my iphone. It's now stuck at "unlocking" after I entered the code for the the SIM. It seems bricked now.

I suspect a hardware failure like a broken antenna or broken SIM tray, but then why would the phone want to re-activate because the antenna breaks?

....and this is why the issue remains unfixed. People like you continue to purchase their products without any concern for getting anything fixed. I suppose having too much money is a good thing!

I have this issue now and none of the support items apply to me. I do not use iCLOUD so I cannot TURN OFF device there. I am not near Wi-fi (at work) so I cannot use Wi-Fi to connect. Apple is not responsive to this issue and has not posted an actual fix. The store tells me they have no idea since I am not on iCloud. Sounds like something Microsoft would do! 🙂