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how to tell the phone has been used

I purchased a iPhone 5s from eBay. The seller described it as brand new. However, the box came with the phone was not original; it has different Serial Number and IMEI. The charger adapter has many scratch marks. I'm wondering whether I can tell the phone has been used or not. Thank you for your help!

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 28, 2015 2:12 PM

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Jul 28, 2015 2:20 PM in response to Tidecochan

Some quick things to look for - go to Settings > General > About and see what the capacity and available space are in the storage.


See if an Apple ID has been installed and set, worst case scenario, Settings > iCloud > Find My is turned on - that iPhone is useless to you if it is.


Look at the Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage and see if there are any error messages, if so it has been used enough to run into operational problems.


Those are a few things to start searching through.

how to tell the phone has been used

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