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iPhone 5 did not come with a sim card removal tool

moosquared said:
What are you talking about?
All the iPhone/iPad comes with the ejecting tool. OP's tool probably got lost (error) during packaging.
My friend's ATT iPhone 4 came with ejecting tool.
My USA bought iPhone 4S came with ejecting tool as well.
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well since I have purchased all iPhones (while on contract with AT&T) only my 3G & 3GS came with sim tools.

I didn't mention iPad's since I don't own one

thanks for the hospitality :)

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vastoholic said:
I bought my 4s unlocked from apple and it came with a sim card ejector tool. Inside the US. It's not restricted to other countries. I think inside the US it's only the unlocked phones, since they assume those people may be changing sim cards frequently. If you bought it on contract with a carrier then their should be no real need to use it unless you sell it and wish to take it out.

My iPhone 5 bought on contract did not come with one, nor did it have a place for one in the packaging like my 4s did. The 4s is the only iPhone so far that has came with the tool.
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this is probably how it works then. I've never purchased one out of contract/Unlocked.
 
zoonyx said:
Technicall you're the one spreading misinformation. Apt username. The world doesn't revolve around the US, and even there its still included in some cases.
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As opposed to "Wrong. All of the iPhones have the SIM removal tool," to which the misinformation is corrected? You're wrong here.
 
I assume someone has already pointed this out. They DO come in the booklet if your iPhones packaging IF you live everywhere other than the US. Hope that helps. No idea why though. As previously mentioned use a PAPERCLIP they work just as good!
 
Purchased my iPhone 5 today from a carrier here, unlocked, on a 24-month contract in New Zealand and it came with the SIM ejector tool. All of my previous ones from here have too. I suspect they do not include it on the locked models so as not to confuse people if they try to insert a SIM that is not from the appropriate carrier.
 
Verizon phones are all unlocked. So it should be included based on the discussion here.
 
moosquared said:
It SHOULD come with the box. I guess there was a mistake when they're packaging your order. You can always use a paper clip, needle, the tip of the mechanical pencil.

Apple doesn't sell the sim card remover. Not sure if they're gonna give you one. I once went into an apple store in the airport, the person offered to give me a paper clip. If you're really anal, like me, and you want the exact sim card removal tool, go to ebay. You can buy 20 of those for just a couple bucks. I did.
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IPhone 5. In the US market, Sprint, Verizon and AT&T do NOT come with a Sim removal tool. Period.

If you receive a Apple Care mailer ( mail in replacement iPhone 5) there is a Sim removal tool attached to an instruction card for return replacement.

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vastoholic said:
I bought my 4s unlocked from apple and it came with a sim card ejector tool. Inside the US. It's not restricted to other countries. I think inside the US it's only the unlocked phones, since they assume those people may be changing sim cards frequently. If you bought it on contract with a carrier then their should be no real need to use it unless you sell it and wish to take it out.
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Yes, that's the case. It's the only difference between the official unlocked version and the AT&T version in the US. The former comes with the sim ejector pin, while the latter comes with an AT&T nano-sim.

That said, since I bought my iPhone 5 unlocked, I may actually have a use for a sim ejector. When I travel overseas I usually get a local SIM since it's a lot cheaper than paying AT&T $1.29 minute and getting an international data package (they range from $30 for 120MB to $120 for 800MB each with $20/MB overages). By contrast, when I'm in Europe, I can usually get 500MB data packages for €5-10 and bundles of 60-200 minutes for US calls for about the same.

Having said that, AT&T's international data plans have gotten a bit cheaper. Earlier this year it was $200 for 800MB. I think they have dealt with enough bad PR from 10-figure data bills that they had to get more reasonable.
 
darster said:
Verizon phones are all unlocked. So it should be included based on the discussion here.
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They are unlocked, but primarily because Verizon was required to unlock them based on the terms of their LTE license. It isn't because Verizon wants to promote their use with other company's SIM cards.
 
I didnt have one with my iphone 4 or 5 in the uk but i still have the old one from my 3gs. Wish they would reintroduce it really.
 
US here.. Only my 3Gs came with one. My 4, 4S and 5 all did not come with a SIM tool. I looked for it on my 5, though, since I had seen an outside the US unboxing and had shown the SIM tool, so I thought it would be in there, but it was not. I used a needle to eject the SIM on my 4S and put my wife's SIM into it.
 
I don't understand people saying that Apple only supplied the tool with the 3GS. My 4 definitely came with a SIM card removal tool.
 
I called Apple to set up a repair on my iPhone 5 a few days ago and later cancelled it, but they still shipped the empty box, which came with a SIM card ejector.

Paper clip works just as good, though :).
 
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