I have just moved over to iPhone 16 and arrived from Ireland in USA and my phone is not picking up a carrier. In Settings there is a Mobile Service option Under this setting mobile data appears to be on. I don't see any roaming button, in the photo of the screen where I would expect it, the blue tick just moves from _ OFF to personal to primary I phoned Vodafone whole are my service provider and no issue with my plan so that's not the issue. I can seem to be able to find a roaming button anywhere. I really need my phone to keep in touch with my family while I am here Any suggestions which may help would be very much appreciated Many thanks

iPhone iOS13 w/ dual SIMS: T-Mobile (EU) & AT&T (US). I need help shortcut script: * IF I arrive home THEN * turn on airplane mode and WIFI * GO To Settings -- Cellular (Cellular Plans) * 1 Cellular plan (T-Mobile) Turn ON / 2 Cellular Plan (AT&T) Turn ON * IF I leave home THEN * turn off airplane mode and * GO To Settings -- Cellular (Cellular Plans)and * 1 Cellular plan (T-Mobile) Turn ON / 2 Cellular Plan (AT&T) Turn OFF This allows the user access to WIFI calling only while at home location and local cellular plan use while outside of home. [Turning off Network completely: Not just 'data' but the complete network mobile line. Ex: T-Mobile is 'active' and AT&T turns off.]

I want to read (and possibly edit) the Short Message Service Center number of my carrier on iOS. I don’t think there is a user-accessible method for this. My phone is a jailbroken iPhone 6s running iOS 15. I looked at /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db, but this file only contains the messages themselves.

I'm based in the US, and have an iPhone 14 with dual eSIMs – one of these is my regular US number, and the other is for “Country A” where I frequently travel and find it useful to maintain a number for. Both of these eSIMs are working correctly. I'm considering upgrading to a new iPhone, and wish to transfer both eSIMs. My understanding is that eSIMs have to be activated in their country of origin (i.e. you cannot enable it for the first time when you are roaming). Certainly, my US eSIM was originally set up in the US, and the overseas one in Country A. Does anyone know if this is required to be the case? (If not, the rest of this question may be moot.) Both networks support the eSIM Quick Transfer feature . Apple says: >With eSIM Quick Transfer, you can transfer your phone number from your previous iPhone to your new iPhone without contacting your network provider. Does this also apply when you are currently roaming? Worst case, if there's an issue with the US one, I can contact them and work with them. Should the international one also work? I don't know whether this is more the equivalent of transferring the existing eSIM (analogously to moving a physical SIM between devices), or whether it's more like setting up a “new” eSIM which might require me to be in Country A.

I have an old Galaxy S20 with an eSIM from T-Mobile for a secondary phone that I used to use. Some time ago I bought an iPhone 15 Pro and I have my main eSIM on it. Is it possible to transfer the eSIM from the Galaxy S20 to my iPhone and have dual SIMs on the iPhone?

There are times that I have a defined group of people in my texts and I don't know if they all have iphones. I text the group and one reply might come back on a different thread, even though the person answered on my first original thread. Why is this happening?

I believe 2 e-sims can be _active_ and 8 e-sims can be _stored_ (i.e. to include e-sims that are not currently activated on the phone) depending on the iPhone model. Presumably the user would select 2 of these to be the active e-sims. If 8 e-sims could be stored, then I would assume that 2 of those e-sims can be selected as active and the other 6 were inactive. An accepted answer will be one that provides a direct link the apple.com documentation stating if more than 2 e-sims can be _stored_ on the iPhone SE3 but not activated. What should I expect for an iPhone SE 3?

For a while now, my iPhone has been automatically blocking callers without my knowledge. This has caused me to miss important calls. For example, I was wondering why a local PC repair shop was not returning my calls regarding a laptop I sent in for repair. After further investigation, I found the repair shop's number under Blocked Contacts and several voicemails from them under Deleted Messages. I am 100% certain I did not block that number, especially considering that I was expecting a call from them. While I do have the Silence Unknown Callers option turned on, my understanding is this feature is not supposed to actually block such callers. However, I *have* manually blocked a lot of spam callers in recent years. For the record, I am using an iPhone 13 Pro Max with iOS version 17.5.1 currently installed. I get service from Verizon Wireless. They do offer a service called Verizon Call Filter that automatically blocks spam calls, but that requires a separate app, which I do not have installed. I’m curious if iOS use the Blocked Contacts list to train its spam detection system. Either way, how can I disable this "feature" and allow calls to come in without being blocked?

My setup is iPhone 4 and Bluetooth in my 2012 SUV. I have a 80 minute highway commute. I have real trouble hearing the other party at highway speeds around 65 Mph or higher. If I drop my speed down by 15 Mph, I get much clearer voice quality. The phone shows me either max bars for connectivity or 4 bars in either case. This leads me to believe that it is not the Bluetooth, or the quality of the phone itself, but the quality/strength of the signal captured. This is the only reason I am considering switching phones. The iPhone 5 for AT&T has the 4G LTE network. Is voice quality better because the 4GLTE is a faster network? Does the quality of voice issue at high speeds go away for the LTE phones?

I recently started at a new job and now work at home four days a week (I only go in to the office once a week for a company meeting). Because I'm no longer commuting regularly and obviously have wifi in my house, I'm using almost no data on my iPhone 4 anymore. I'm already on the cheaper $15/month data plan with AT&T, but I don't even max that out anymore; as of today, which is halfway through my billing period, I've only used 26 MB out of 200. So what I'm wondering is, is it possible to just get a Tracfone SIM or something and use that for voice, then disable all 3G/data services on my iPhone? I already use almost no voice minutes as it is (I got the iPhone primarily to use data), and I'm now on wifi almost 100% of the time, so I'd lose basically nothing compared to what I have now - it would just be a fraction of the cost. I'm assuming there's some catch here that prevents me from doing this, otherwise probably lots of people would be doing the same, but I figured I'd ask!

When carriers roll out [Voice over LTE (VoLTE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_(telecommunication)#Voice_calls) , is the iPhone 5s capable of using it?

For incoming calls that are not in address book automatically answer phone call call with configured voice menu, like: - "Hello I am voice assistant" - "What is your name?" and try to speech-to-text into recoding title - "What is birthday" to give some quick passthrough code iPhone (with iOS 14) can auto answer or block calls, but I'd like to autoanswer/block more wisely. Is there iOS app, service or feature that would manage incoming calls and give unknown caller a voice menu?

Basically as the title. The scenario is that on a phone call would like to see how long I have been on it. I am on an IPhone SE (second generation) IOS 15 I think on old iOS it was shown on screen. (Asked when hanging on a support line :))

When I send a text without wifi, my phone plan has no data so Imessage won't be able to send a text like that, but it tries anyway for a WHILE and I am only able to send as SMS after it fails to send. I have send as SMS enabled, but even so. Is there any way to make it so Imessage will always send as SMS if I am not connected to WIFI?

I know that several years ago, some iPhones had CDMA and others GSM, and others yet had both, depending on which carrier the phones were meant to work with. But I read somewhere that nowadays, all of them come with extensive network compatibility. AT&T told me that their phones are locked but can be unlocked once fully paid off. So it sounds like there is a software lock but perhaps the hardware is universal. I am looking to buy a T-Mobile phone, get it unlocked, and then switch immediately to using another carrier. Are all iPhones the same now, in terms of communication hardware/software?

I had a temporary number for a day after transferring to a new provider. My correct number has now been transferred to the new SIM. The settings, however, now contains both numbers. The second number, with the unavailable message, is the temporary I now want rid of. Going into Edit only allows for removal of the AppleID xxx@me.com. The phone numbers just have an unhelpful ⓘ symbol, with this message The number, of course, no longer exists - yet it will likely be recycled in future by the provider, so I don't want the association with this phone to still remain. There are similar questions regarding removing a phone number from iMessage & FaceTime. That part was easy. They have correctly been re-associated with the 'proper' number [basically by switching it all off & on again.]. The temporary number has no association with Apple or iCloud at all. It shows nowhere but in here. Does anyone have a method to delete it? My google-fu is usually pretty good, but all I can find are methods to change the FaceTime & Messages numbers - already done.

I heard there was a planned test of the emergency alert system in the United States today, October 4, at 2:20 PM. To avoid being disrupted, I turned off all alerts in **Settings** -> **Notifications** (one of which is actually labeled "Test Alerts"). However, I was quite surprised when, at 2:20, my phone still showed the alert, vibrated, and played a loud sound despite being on silent with all alerts off. **Why did my iPhone not respect my choice to have emergency alerts turned off?**

When someone phones my iPhone 7, the caller just hears a "boop boop boop boop" sequence (same pitch) before the call is ended - my iPhone doesn't ring at all, but still gives me a notification of a missed call. If they phone again immediately after, this time the call goes through like normal, ringing on both ends. What could be the cause of this?

- iPhoneXs - iOS 13.4 (also affected 13.3.x) - Carrier: AT&T - e-SIM (no physical SIM) On a recent trip out of the U.S. I added a 2nd SIM card and a local calling plan (Turkcell) so I could use my phone without incurring roaming charges. All was fine. **PROBLEM:** When I returned, I deactivated that plan, and removed the SIM card from the phone. However, the iPhone retained the incorrect phone number formatting on the dialpad screen. See screenshot below for example: This might seem like a frivolous detail, but it actually slows me down when dialing numbers "manually" since it always looks like I've entered the number incorrectly, skipped a digit or added an extra one, etc. I just want to get it back to the correct format. Once I hit the green Dial button, the number is correctly formatted, so it's just doing this on the pre-dial screen. See below: **Thing's I've tried:** - Soft resetting the phone (Vol+, Vol-, then press+hold Power until it reboots) - Changing Language under Settings > Language & Region e.g. from English U.S. to something else and then back again - Adding / removing additional keyboards - Turning Roaming on/off - Turning Cellular Data on/off - Disabling the cellular line under Settings > Cellular and then re-enabling it - Calling AT&T and having them "re-provision" my phone - Updating from iOS 13.3 to 13.4 **Things I have NOT tried:** - Going to an Apple Store (they're closed here right now due to COVID-19) 😔 - Doing a full Backup / Restore of the phone - The various "Resets" under Settings > Reset (was afraid to lose my stored passwords/WiFi settings but if anyone thinks that would fix it, I will try...) Anyone ever see this or know how to fix it?

I am receiving an SMS from Info on an iPhone running iOS 13. There is no contact Info in my address book. Does this perhaps mean that the sender suppresses her address/telephone number? Or what else can cause this? **UPDATE** I should clarify that the exact scenario is as follows: I'm sending an SMS to a phone number; for what I know there is a person at the other end. A few minutes later the response arrives from Info (e.g. hence the iOS Messages app shows it in a new thread, which is somewhat inconvenient.)