Tell them to send you a new SIM? Try a different SIM and see if you can receive messages on that?

Sounds like your mobile provider isn’t delivering messages, the reason you’re receiving from iPhones is due to iMessage. Call your provider and ask them?

It highly depends on the phones condition, the battery condition, etc

That’s why the range is so large, you’ll have to look at the phones condition yourself, scratches the outside and come to a conclusion of a price range based on what you’re seeing on eBay

You’d probably be better cutting this person out of your life, giving their phone back and going no contact… then buying one on eBay tbh

My lord who would pay that for a case

AppleCare is the regular warranty, AppleCare+ is the extra one. It's possible they broke something, it's also possible they couldn't tell whether they broke it or if it was broke when it came in, in that case they will simply replace the whole thing because it's not worth arguing with the customer.

They ordered from the Apple Store with same-day delivery and never received the items... how is that the person's fault?

A 0% credit card is literally a better bet here though, you get longer than 6 weeks depending on your promotions (most offer 6 mo before they start charging interest, 6 weeks is nothing)

You need to work out which phone you actually have, there’s no such thing as an iPhone 10 Pro

Check the blacklist, if the seller has not paid the phone off it will be blacklisted even if it’s unlocked

I would hard pass on this phone though, it seems sketchy

Think about it for a second, how on earth could anyone hack you through a SIM card? If that was possible don't you think there would be much more sim card hacking going on?

Life is not the movies, you're being paranoid. Someone activated it already so that you don't need to do it in a language you may not be familiar with in a foreign country, they did you a favour and likely charged you a fair amount for it.

I mean at £25 it’s better than nothing, but all iOS updates have stopped for it and in a year or two it won’t run many apps (and it’ll struggle to do so now)

You take a seemingly dead iPhone with zero water damage and they’re not going to refuse to even look at it even if you’re out of warranty

If it’s a 13 it should still be under warranty anyway, talk to your mum about going to Apple together and getting it looked at

Why panic? But the first question is did you already try a hard reboot?

Not for OP to do, it isn’t his phone or responsibility until it’s in his hands. It is still Verizon’s phone and they can do whatever they like

Wait I think you might be doing it wrong, have you gone to YouTube and found a recent video on it to follow?

How are you doing it? Press Vol up, release then volume down and hold power? Remember the screen will be completely blank

If it truly won’t go into DFU mode you’ll need to take it to Apple, they should do a restore for you even if out of warranty

I always used to call it that because you'd end up in it when your jailbreak went wrong way back in the days of the 3GS... but yes it's essentially a BIOS, nothing shows on the screen and it only allows you to restore from iTunes

Here's the wiki page about it: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode

"Done Fucked Up" mode

4013 usually means your software is out of date and not signed anymore, what version are you trying to restore to it in DFU mode?

If the sim has been removed it’s Game Over, sorry. My 13 Pro was stolen 6 months ago as well

Apple purchased phones are unlocked, it’s Best Buy etc that will lock phones to whichever carrier is used first

Interesting, if I base64 decode that I get an Amazon wishlist.

https://www.base64decode.org/

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3JVBI6RGXQBKR?ref_=wl_share

It’s an RC, and will have an annoying popup

19G69 version code

15.6 is being signed