re: Giving away an iPhone 6

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My new iPhone X is coming in today. Can I take my SIM card out of my old phone and put it in my x? Also, can I wipe my 6 and give it to my dad to use? Thanks.

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You can take out your old iPhone 6 sim and put it in your X, but ATT will set it up in the store and just activate your new sim card. They will also transfer all of your data (contacts, photos, videos, etc). DO NOT WIPE YOUR iPhone 6 before they transfer everything unless you know you've backed up it up to iTunes or iCloud.

After they transfer everything and get your X activated, you'll want to sign out of your icloud account on your 6 and then wipe it. It'll be fine to give to your dad then, but he will have to just get ATT to make him a new, smaller(nano) sim. Depending on the store, they'll either do it for free or no more than $5. Contacts, photos etc are not kept on the sim card anymore so your dad will need to have his data transferred as well.

As much of a hassle as this sounds, it will be worth it to give your dad your 6. The iPhone 4 is very obsolete, other than the phone lagging badly because of software, it's getting harder and harder to find parts if anything needs to be fixed. A lot of times you'll have to go to ebay to find parts for shady dealers.

I work at a phone repair shop currently, if you have any other questions just reply, I'll try to jump back on here in a little while to check.

PS.. Please for the love of God get a case for your X. Apple put glass on the back similar to Samsung so that you can wirelessly charge your phone. Well, they F'd up the design big time. I've been working to get the glass of the back of an 8 Plus for over 10 hours and I still can't get it all off and I've almost made the phone unusable. Our manager/owner just decided to come back and run the store without any knowledge of cell phone repair and decided to take that 8 in with a broken back. Until the suppliers to decided to start selling iPhone 8 and X back glass already attached to the frame, you will not find any repair shop who works on them. If they do there is a good chance they will mess up your phone bad. Our owner is going to have to shell out 800 to buy this person a new phone.