After my phone reboots a popup appears "Waiting for Activation This may take some time." How can I disable this? I'm using a deactivated SIM card. I would like the card to remain deactivated. This is on an iPhone 5S and iPhone6.
3 Answers
I faced this problem before. You can try to use this trick:
- Go to Settings ~> Message and Turn Off iMessage + Facetime.
- Turn on the Airplane Mode.
- Turn on Wi-Fi.
- Turn on iMessage like the first step. The system will ask you for your Apple ID If it is not added yet.
- Turn Off the Air Plane Mode.
- iMessage should work properly now.
Take out the SIM card, this should fix it. If it's not activated, you shouldn't need it anyways ;) I've often used iPhones without an activated SIM card, and after taking these out, the pop ups stopped ;)
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And then you get “no SIM card” message. What have you accomplished? Commented Feb 17, 2018 at 20:48
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You don’t need a SIM card if the phone ist already activated. Then you just need to confirm that message.– LukeLRCommented Feb 18, 2018 at 22:22
Just take out the SIM card.
I have an iPhone 5c and it got really annoying having the "Your iPhone is not activated" message every 10 minutes. I took out my SIM card with a needle (because the iPhone 5c is different than other phones).
I haven't seen the message since.
