Share on Reddit (opens in a new window) Share on Hacker News (opens in a new window) Share on Flipboard (opens in a new window) It has now been a little over one week since AT&T announced that it would officially unlock customer's iPhones if they met certain requirements. The resul...
Face ID unlock During the ongoing pandemic, unlocking your phone while wearing a face mask has been cumbersome with users forced to enter their passcode instead of using Face ID. Apple lightened the burden a bit by tweaking Face ID to display the passcode entry prompt when identify...
Good idea for AT&T to at least get some good PR out of having to unlock all of their iPhones.
AT&T signed a deal to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone in the US on its network. But they can only get the value for that deal with Apple if the phones are activated on their network. Otherwise people unlock them and use them on other networks. There's enough blame for bot...
https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/ Agreed. Thus far, our trips have usually been after the new iPhone has been released so we would request unlock for our iPhone and use that with local SIM. Besides, swapping SIM cards seem to mess up with iMessage after a while so I avoid doing ...
AT&T has begun allowing out-of-contract customers to unlock their iPhone for use on other carriers, and the unlock codes are applied to the device after restoring through iTunes.
Earlier this month U.S. President Barack Obama said that government agencies have a legitimate need to sometimes bypass encryption, while respecting the importance of personal privacy. The full-disk encryption in iOS 8 and 9 is so tough that Apple claims even it can't unlock a device, wi...
Reddit Bluesky Two new analysts said Tuesday that the iPad-AT&T deal suggests Apple may extend its exclusive iPhone agreement through 2011, leaving the wireless provider as the sole carrier of the handset in the U.S. this year. While speculation was rife for months (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) ...
In an unexpected move Thursday, AT&T began accepting online orders for Apple's iPhone 3G, allowing customers to have the device shipped to their doorstep for activation within the comfort of their own homes.
Long considered a lure for carriers, Apple's iPhone is now believed to be attracting a full third of those switching providers towards AT&T — the highest ever percentage of converts since the iPhone was released.