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Re:Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) by mortenjorck on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:17PM (#30680700)
Beyond Google Fi and T-Mobile, this story has made me suddenly much more apprehensive about picking up SIM cards from some local MVNO when traveling. What’s to stop a local operator from locking my phone and leaving an unpleasant surprise waiting when I get home?

And now I also have to wonder: do eSIMs have the same vulnerability to bad-actor carriers? Is this a risk with any of the companies Airalo has partnered with?

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Re:Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) by gusmd on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:38PM (#30680821)
It can only ever happen when the phone is first activated. So if you have already used the phone with another carrier's SIM card, you are good to go.
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Re:Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) by idiotsecant on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:29AM (#30686533)
It's not an issue of the carrier locking it. Right now there is no mechanisim for an arbitrary carrier to issue a lock command through SIM or otherwise. The issue is that the iPhone hardware itself was watching for insertion of a SIM and locking itself to the first SIM inserted.
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