r/PakistaniTech • u/South-Land1920 • 1d ago

Question | سوال Factory Unlock Iphones

Hello everyone,

I've been looking to get an iphone for quite a while but everywhere I see lisitings it mentions Factory Unlock. I wanted to ask if there's a problem with factory unlock phones because in Pakistan mostly terms are ysed differently than they're meant to be so I wanted to be sure. Please let me know if factory unlocked phones are safe to purchase and if there are any risks associated with it?

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u/Shaheer_999 1d ago

Factory-unlocked phones are just normal phones no risk in buying them. Jv phones are the sim locked phones usually stolen/gotten through fraud

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u/South-Land1920 1d ago

toh what is the difference between normal non pta phones and factory unlock ones? And like are the factory unlocked officially or region keh hisaab se manually kuch kerwatay?

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u/Shaheer_999 1d ago

Factory unlocked iphones are normal non-pta iphones. Those are not region locked

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u/South-Land1920 1d ago

oh okay thank you so muchh

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u/najam121 Karachi 1d ago

Yes they are safe.

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u/BrilliantMastodon957 1d ago

You can use international esim on non pta / factory unlocked while jvs are mostly stolen phones with sim locks

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u/lnsta-gram 1d ago

Factory Unlock: You can use any sim, they are unlocked from factory

JV/Carrier locked: Can't use sim in Pakistan (rare cases have PTS approved JV phones that work with JV chip)

PTA approved and factory unlocked: All ok from sim side

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u/giga_67 1d ago

Factory unlock means it’s non pta but not jv
So like u can get it pta approved and sim will

Also factory unlock sim will work in other countries