Anyone recently unlock their iPhone through T-Mobile?

[Agent OrangeZ]

Last year... I unlocked 2 T-Mobile iPhone 5C's and sold them to upgrade my kids' iPhones. T-Mobile sent me the emails, and I restored them as soon as the emails arrived and got the "Congratulations! Your iPhone is unlocked!" screen for both of them. At the time, I didn't pay attention, but those emails said, "Wait 72 hours" then do it. But it worked right away... so no big deal. This was laster year... so my experience with T-Mobile unlocking has been smooth so far."

Fast forward to yesterday, I sold my iPhone 6 Plus on eBay and the seller paid. Seller asked for me to unlock it with T-Mobile. I agreed. So yesterday I contact T-Mobile and they put in "the request" for unlocking. This morning I got a similar email to the ones I got last year, but this time they say "After 24 hours..." I went ahead and did the restore and the phone is still not unlocked. Tried a couple of times. So... am I being impatient? I am now going to wait the 24 hours, but I really wanted to ship this phone out today.

Anyone else have experience with T-Mobile iPhone unlocking? Did you have to wait the timeframe suggested in the email?

 

[Agent OrangeZ]

Well... 3 hours later and now it finally unlocked in iTunes.

 

[promet2009]

Last time I did this, it was pretty simple. Worked pretty quickly.

 

[Ticocg59]

My daughter did this a few months ago, took 48 hrs.

 

[lordofthereef]

FYI iTunes is no longer required for this. It's all handled through iOS contacting the server during activation now. Good to confirm, I suppose, with iTunes though.