Are any phones bought from the Apple Store unlocked?

[memo90061]

I see that many stores in LA have the Verizon iPhone X, and when buying it has the option to activate later. If I buy it full price will it be unlocked, or does it have to be activated with Verizon?

 

[MacDevil7334]

If you buy in store and pay full price, the Verizon model will be unlocked and you will not need to provide any Verizon account information. I did this last weekend at my local store without any issues.

 

[rugmankc]

Same would hold true for buying on-line, I believe--

 

[PhillyGuy72]

Ok, this is a question I have also...sort of. And if this is "noob" question...sorry. New situation for me.

I saw this morning an X with AT&T sim card available down the street, took it into the shopping cart and it said "AT&T SIM card provided - not activated, but I can take it home and do it there.

QUESTION I have, am I able to take out the SIM CARD from my full functioning iPhone 8+ and simply place it into the X and voila...it's working? Or no...this is just not possible?

 

[Charadis]

If you buy full price at Apple Store, it comes out of the box unlocked. When I first powered mine on, I forgot to remove the Verizon SIM card. So it activated on Verizon. I popped out SIM, slipped my ATT SIM from my iPhone 7plus, and it switched to ATT.

 

[tivoboy]

Att and Verizon models sold in store and full price are unlocked

 

[Reno Raines]

I also believe if you buy the t mobile version paid in full from Apple it too is unlocked.

 

[PhillyGuy72]

Should work I guess, iStock site is down, has been since last night. I see another store in the Philly area have the X for pickup today...this option won't last long I think. To heck with it...I SAID I wasn't going to do this, but you only live once! I'll buy it...try it out for 13/14 days, if I don't like/love it..then I can return it. I can also transfer my AppleCare from 8+ to X..I suspect. I'll pay $50 more.

.....hmmmm, decisions, decisions.
(My evil side of my brain says "DO IT, MONEY IS NO OBJECT....DO IT NOW!") 😱

 

[jod1921]

I have a prepaid att account so i reserved a tmobile “ no info needed “ for store pick up. When i got to the store they had att 64 silver and tmobile 64 sg phones . I wanted silver so i took the att. After all the hype about get the verizon unlocked version i was quite suprised when i put my pre paid sim in and the speed was way faster than my att 6 plus. I dont get a very good signal at my house and my iphone 6 plus has always been slow. I ran Speedtest on my x and my fathers att 6 plus side by side “x 3.6 to 6 “ “6 plus .4 to .6 . The att x runs around 10 times faster.

 

[Shadowbech]

Should work I guess, iStock site is down, has been since last night. I see another store in the Philly area have the X for pickup today...this option won't last long I think. To heck with it...I SAID I wasn't going to do this, but you only live once! I'll buy it...try it out for 13/14 days, if I don't like/love it..then I can return it. I can also transfer my AppleCare from 8+ to X..I suspect. I'll pay $50 more.

.....hmmmm, decisions, decisions.
(My evil side of my brain says "DO IT, MONEY IS NO OBJECT....DO IT NOW!") 😱

And tis the holiday season you have till 1/8/18 for any returns.

 

[TechNismo]

Wow, in Canada any iPhone you buy from Apple is unlocked. And as of December 2017 (next month) all phones in Canada will be unlocked for FREE and all phone sold will also be unlocked, as it is a new law.

 

[rugmankc]

I looked at another X at ATT in-Mall store. Best Buys demo that I used two days ago is gone. An ATT rep, in the Mall store, had an X and had full LTE bars. I had two on my 6s Plus, same carrier. I know bars are not accurate, but I am believing the X with Intel modem will do as good or better than Qualcomm. At least this year. With the posts on call quality, I think I will stay with the ATT iPhone.

My only problem with not liking the X is the issues I have had going from portrait to landscape to view movies. My 6s Plus is pretty quick on that. Not always. Maybe iOS 11 changed something as my wife says her iPad takes more shakes now too. But, I watched trailers on the X and they are fine for me. Great color, vivid. With the text on large, no issues reading.

I would like to see a screen shot of Google Maps on X. I use that a lot on appointments. Asked my son, but he won't put anything Google on his Apple products. Go figure--🙂