Activating the iPhone X

[bueller1]

My company pays for my cell phone so I added a new line to my wife's personal account today and got a SIM for it (not sure I really needed one but thats besides the point).

I'm planning on preordering the iPhone X under that new line and then popping in my personal SIM that I have in my 7 right now. My question is, when the phone arrives do I have to activate it under the new line that I ordered it with or can I swap the SIM card for mine then simply turn it on?

Thanks

 

[deadworlds]

Usually swapping out SIM card will work just fine.

 

[DreamPod]

Depends on the carrier. Sprint needs both SIM card and activation.

 

[bueller1]

ATT

 

[Lobwedgephil]

ATT

You should be fine just swapping sims. Unless you do something like IUP and you have to confirm the line first.

 

[bueller1]

You should be fine just swapping sims. Unless you do something like IUP and you have to confirm the line first.

Nope. Just ATT next.

 

[Lobwedgephil]

Nope. Just ATT next.

Gotcha, yeah just put your sim into the phone before you power it on and you will be fine.

 

[gmw92078]

I didn't need to do anything... EXCEPT a manual update of the phone. It kept getting hung up when I tried to do the phone-to-phone transfer of data. I ended up calling tech support, and they suggested doing the manual instead, and all was good. They said it had to do with having a locked home WiFi network, but I dunno. I have ATT.