Hidden code tells if your iPhone was new or refurbished - WCPO 9 Cincinnati

So you conscionable spent $800 oregon $1,000 a caller Apple iPhone.

Or possibly your supplier sent you a replacement 1 due to the fact that your aged 1 broke.

But however bash you cognize if that caller telephone is truly marque new?

It turns retired determination is an casual mode to find out, acknowledgment to a hidden codification successful your settings.

Recent reports successful the Daily Mail, How-to-Geek, and different sites accidental each iPhone has a codification successful the exemplary fig that volition instantly archer you if you are holding a previously-owned phone.

To find out:

• Go to "Settings."
• Then spell to "General."
• Then click connected "About," which tells you each astir your phone.

That is wherever you volition spot the code.

Look for "Model," and specifically the missive successful beforehand of your exemplary number.

• "M" means it was a marque caller telephone erstwhile you activated it.
• "F" means it was refurbished, and that idiosyncratic other utilized it first.
• "N" means it is simply a replacement device, for a telephone that broke.

Third enactment sellers whitethorn misrepresent your telephone arsenic new

But from the "doesn't that stink" file, immoderate folks person paid for what they thought was a caller telephone and ended up with a utilized one.

Apple forums are filled with complaints from radical who said it happened to them when they bought a discounted telephone from 3rd enactment sellers. In astir cases, you cannot get a refund.

And if it was refurbished by an autarkic repair shop, it whitethorn not person an Apple warranty.

Apple reminds customers that each its Certified Refurbished phones travel with a 1 twelvemonth warranty, but 1 refurbished by a compartment store oregon 3rd enactment whitethorn not.

So cheque the hidden codification fig earlier you buy. Or if you are buying from a 3rd enactment seller, inquire them what missive the exemplary fig starts with.

That mode you don't discarded your money.

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