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iPhone 12 Pro Manually enable the hidden 5G toggle?

Teedawgg

Teedawgg

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Dec 26, 2013
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I use Google Fi which supports 5G on all their plans.
Annoyingly, the carrier has to tell the iPhone that the plan being used supports 5G. I don’t expect that Google will enable this on the backend anytime soon, especially since they still don’t even support WiFi Calling on iPhone.

So, I’m looking for a way to manually enable the hidden 5G toggles. Does anyone have an idea of how I can go about doing this? Can some sort of manually installed carrier file enable it?
 
Packers1958 said:
Not sure why it's Apple's fault if the carrier doesn't tell them their network supports 5G.
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Apple has made it so carriers have to enable a flag on the backend of accounts that specifically tell iPhone/iOS that 5G is allowed on the phone. It is Apple's fault because this is the first 5G phone to require this extra authentication step, and it is specific to the iPhone. Use any Android phone before the iPhone 12 launched with 5G and you'll have found that popping your SIM in 5G just worked with no added hassle.

Browse MacRumors and Reddit and you'll find that people who have 5G capable plans are having to take time out of their days to call their carriers and have them enable this iPhone flag. Some of which have not been able to successfully get a customer support rep to do it and are still not able to use 5G even though their phone supports it and their plan includes it. Lots of that over on AT&T.
 
although I don't know exactly how to do this, i can't see Apple making this easy, especially without a jailbreak. I'm following the post. Curious myself now.
 
Teedawgg said:
Apple has made it so carriers have to enable a flag on the backend of accounts that specifically tell iPhone/iOS that 5G is allowed on the phone. It is Apple's fault because this is the first 5G phone to require this extra authentication step, and it is specific to the iPhone. Use any Android phone before the iPhone 12 launched with 5G and you'll have found that popping your SIM in 5G just worked with no added hassle.

Browse MacRumors and Reddit and you'll find that people who have 5G capable plans are having to take time out of their days to call their carriers and have them enable this iPhone flag. Some of which have not been able to successfully get a customer support rep to do it and are still not able to use 5G even though their phone supports it and their plan includes it. Lots of that over on AT&T.
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So basically that toggle is only activated when there's a carrier update? I was too wondering why I'm not seeing the 5G toggle...

I was an early iPhone 5 user back when we were transitioning from 3G to 4G and I always had the toggle between those even when there were no networks available. I wonder why they changed this? Back then I beta tested the first 4G network in my country, I had it always on so it just connected once they put the network up. So no beta testing this time I'm assuming... :confused:
 
Hendo999 said:
I work for a carrier company. Apple have to approve the carriers 5G network, before you can use 5G network. When its approved you will see a carrier update and then you will be able to use 5G. You can see all the working features here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204040
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Thanks for confirming. Very sad to hear. I had already come across that page but I assumed it was irrelevant given my previous experience. Expecting a 1+year gap before I can connect to a 5G network, then...
 
This is way over my head from a tech perspective, so I may be way off but maybe it can be triggered through the APN settings?

Send & receive text messages (SMS & MMS) - iPhone & iPad - Google Fi Wireless Help

To send and receive some photo, video, and group messages, when you activate your service, update your iPhone settings. Make sure your settings are configured correctly for messaging: Configure MMS s
support.google.com
 
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