Current Events > Can I activate my new iPhone at home?

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This is honestly the first time I've ever had a new phone. How do I get it up and going and transfer my old phone to the new one? My new phone has all my contacts in it right now, but it says I have no Service

Spotify plays just fine, but when I went to test making a phone call it beeped and told me to turn on WiFi Calling or something to that effect.
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Not sure. On Android, all you have to do is move the SIM. do apple phones have that?
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Is your sim inside? Did you call your phone provider to activate the sim?
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Might need to call up your cell provider and do the switch that way. Hopefully you have another phone to use.

I switched from iPhone to Samsung last month and that's how I handled it.
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Bad_Mojo posted...

This is honestly the first time I've ever had a new phone. How do I get it up and going and transfer my old phone to the new one? My new phone has all my contacts in it right now, but it says I have no Service

Spotify plays just fine, but when I went to test making a phone call it beeped and told me to turn on WiFi Calling or something to that effect.

You have a SIM card, right?
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Just move the SIM card over, make sure to save your contacts to the card tho

gnome from nome posted...

Bad_Mojo posted...

This is honestly the first time I've ever had a new phone. How do I get it up and going and transfer my old phone to the new one? My new phone has all my contacts in it right now, but it says I have no Service

Spotify plays just fine, but when I went to test making a phone call it beeped and told me to turn on WiFi Calling or something to that effect.

You have a SIM card, right?

Don't even know what that is, lol

I still have my old phone and it works just fine. Just trying to get on this new one
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soulunison2 posted...

Just move the SIM card over, make sure to save your contacts to the card tho

Okay, how do I do that? Never done it before
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Take the back off. Should be a Sim card in there. Or do apples take Sims out from the side?
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Wait, answer this : did you just buy the iPhone itself only?
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MrK3V posted...

Take the back off. Should be a Sim card in there. Or do apples take Sims out from the side?

Sim tray is usually at the side of the phone or the top.
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Blastia posted...

MrK3V posted...

Take the back off. Should be a Sim card in there. Or do apples take Sims out from the side?

Sim tray is usually at the side of the phone or the top.

Cool. Never had iPhone so I'm not as knowledgeable for SIMs on apple products
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Are you going from iPhone to iPhone?

You can literally back your old phone up, then restore the new phone from that back up and plug in the SIM card and bam done.
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@Bad_Mojo posted...

This is honestly the first time I've ever had a new phone. How do I get it up and going and transfer my old phone to the new one? My new phone has all my contacts in it right now, but it says I have no Service

Spotify plays just fine, but when I went to test making a phone call it beeped and told me to turn on WiFi Calling or something to that effect.

Yes you can, I set mine up at home, I specifically told them not to open it
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Blastia posted...

Wait, answer this : did you just buy the iPhone itself only?

I got it for Christmas. Only the phone? Yeah, I guess. It came in the white box
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My old phone is the iPhone 5s, btw
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Bad_Mojo posted...

My old phone is the iPhone 5s, btw

Yeah so what you should do is what I posted.

Back your 5S up to your computer, and then do a restore from backup to your new phone. It literally brings everything over.

Then just take the SIM card from the 5S and put it in the new one.
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Back up your 5s on iTunes first. Then it should be ready to move the SIM over to the new iPhone.
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You dont even need to do it on iTunes do it on the cloud like I do,

I literally got a replacement X today cuz my old X had a faulty face camera

soulunison2 posted...

You dont even need to do it on iTunes do it on the cloud like I do,

I literally got a replacement X today cuz my old X had a faulty face camera

As far as I'm aware doing it through iCloud isn't just a copy+paste job like doing it through iTunes essentially is. If you do it through iTunes you don't need to redownload anything.
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Bio1590 posted...

soulunison2 posted...

You dont even need to do it on iTunes do it on the cloud like I do,

I literally got a replacement X today cuz my old X had a faulty face camera

As far as I'm aware doing it through iCloud isn't just a copy+paste job like doing it through iTunes essentially is. If you do it through iTunes you don't need to redownload anything.

Its the same thing, literally I have it set up so it syncs every day at midnight while I sleep to the cloud. I just got a replacement X at SoHo Apple Store and literally redownloaded everything on the spot as if I had my same phone

Just take your old phone and put it in your new phone.
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Please read the instruction manual. I get the feeling you can't just take the back off of an iPhone... The manual will also help you get used to the features and stuff...
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Got it working

Thank you, everyone
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