I bought a used iPhone 5c off of Craigslist to use as a small tablet but can’t get past the “sim required, please insert a SIM card screen” but I don’t have a SIM card as I don’t own a cell phone. How can I get past this screen isn’t there any way to use an iPhone as an iPod/iPad mini without paying a monthly bill?
iPhone 5c
Example case: I've been sitting here trying to read a book in iBooks on my old iPhone 5s with iOS 11.4.1. It is activated and works fine when I put my other SIM from my new iPhone in it. However, I would not call getting a system message that No SIM Card is Installed every 10-15 seconds as "Works just fine". Do you?
What isn't true?
You can use an iPhone without a sim card just fine once its been activated.
It will, if you turn off, and then turn it on again, tell you there is no sim card installed, but will not force you to use a sim card one its been activated. It just a notification. If it has not been activated, or is restored or erased it will again require activation with a sim card.
I have an iPhone 6 plus without a sim card and it works just fine.
That does not happen to me. My iPhone has no sim card, and it never issues the message.
If yours is issuing the message that frequently it points to a hardware error. Its possibly the sim tray has an issue and is causing the phone to be checking the sim card status consistently.
Its definitely nos the way an iPhone works. If possible take the phone in for a diagnostic.
You can use an iPhone as an iPod touch BUT you first need to activate the iPhone with a SIM.
Any valid SIM will do, need not be an active SIM.
Can I ask a friend to borrow an active SIM card from his iPhone to activate my phone? will this work because I don’t know if my phone is unlocked from the carrier it was orginally on.
Yes you can, if the iPhone 5c is not carrier locked.
If it's locked then only that carrier can unlock officially, not Apple or anyone else.
This simply isn't true. My phone is activated, but still constantly receives the System error about No SIM Card Installed. Very frustrating.
Use iPhone without SIM card
