Do n’t say you were n’t warn . After admonish customers in the beginning this calendar week that unlocked iPhones may be disabled when installing future Apple software updates , the company on Thursday made good on its warning .
Two iPhones in theMacworldoffices that had the SIM machine politician applied to them were incapacitate after installing iPhone Update 1.1.1 . The update process go through without a hitch , however , when the phone restarted an activation subject matter appeared that said , “ Insert an unlocked and valid SIM to activate iPhone . ”
A similar message appeared in iTunes . A billet saying the SIM card was not valid and to insert a valid SIM card recognise the drug user .
security measure researcher Tom Ferris said the new software disabled a earphone that had been unbarred using the open - source anySIM software so as to work on T - Mobile USA ’s wireless connection . “ It continue saying ‘ unsupported SIM wit , ’ even with the AT&T SIM card in it , ” he said . “ you’re able to turn the phone off or on , but we just ca n’t calculate out how to get past this ‘ SIM board not supported , ’ ” he said .
drug user also could not navigate through the iPhone ’s menu . The “ Slide for Emergency ” yellow-bellied terrapin is the only thing useable after installing the update . This allows customers to make emergency birdcall only .
The update also appears to incapacitate the Jailbreak hack which leave users to install unsupported package on the iPhone , Ferris say . After the 1.1.1 darn was installed it wiped out all of the third - party applications he had installed on a second iPhone , he said .
Apple warned customers on Monday that unsecured iPhones may become inoperable . “ Apple has find that many of the wildcat iPhone unlocking curriculum uncommitted on the net cause irreparable legal injury to the iPhone ’s software , which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple - supplied iPhone software update is set up , ” the company said in a instruction .
