Number Porting Question

I was actually going to ask a similar question. Like selling on swappa, do you pull your old sim out? Or once you activate your new phone the sim will automatically deactivate until someone else activates on their account/number.

 

I would pull your SIM out before selling it. The SIM will be no use to the buyer and you should protect yourself. Also, I'm not so sure you can just swap SIMs around in Verizon phones like you can with AT&T. Maybe someone else can verify. In the olden days of LTE, the SIM was just used for LTE and the 2G/3G stuff was still linked to the phone itself. For that reason, i'm not trading in my current phone until i have the new phone working properly with the service transferred over.

 

The SIM should definitely not be included when you sell it. Sim should be removed and the phone restored (erased).

As for being needed to port your number, not at all. Numbers are ported to and from land lines, different models of phones, different providers, etc. The sim plays no part in it at all. It's all about records held at the phone company.

If you're staying with the same company and your old iPhone used a nano-SIM, you can use your old SIM. If not, it's just a worthless piece of metal and plastic.