SIM Locked iPhone Unlock

Contact your wireless carrier or visit their website. Apple will only remove the lock if they accidentally replace an unlocked unit with a locked one.

The people on these boards are mostly other customers and can't unlock it in any case.

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Click here and find your carrier in the list or on those in the articles for the other regions; either their name or the Unlocking text if they offer it will be a link.

KiltedTim: The actual unlock is done by Apple, but all such requests must go through the wireless carrier except as noted above.

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Apple can not remove the carrier lock from a phone.

Only the carrier it is locked to can unlock it.

Contact the carrier it's locked to.

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Here's the official Support article, which says more or less the same thing.

How to unlock your iPhone for use with a different carrier - Apple Support

I’m aware. I guess the point was that Apple can not initiate the unlock and contacting Apple to do so is a waste of time.