The purchase of used iPhone is always a risk, since in addition to honest vendors, fraudsters can often fly on the Internet, offering non-original apple devices. That is why we will try to figure out how you can easily distinguish the original iPhone from the fake.
Check iPhone on originality
Below we will look at several ways to make sure that you are not cheap fake, and the original. To be exactly confident, when studying the gadget, try to use not one described below, but immediately everything.Method 1: IMEI comparison
At the stage of production, each iPhone is assigned a unique identifier - IMEI, which is entered into the phone programmatically, applied to its body, and also registered on the box.
Read more: How to find out IMEI iPhone
Checking an iPhone on authenticity, make sure that IMEI coincides both in the menu and on the housing. The mismatch of the identifier should tell you that either the device was performed by the manipulation, which the seller was silent, for example, a hull replacement was performed, or an iPhone is not at all.
Method 2: Apple Site
In addition to IMEI, each apple gadget has its own unique serial number that can be used to check its authenticity on the official Apple website.
- To begin with, you will need to find out the serial number of the device. To do this, open the iPhone settings and go to the "Basic" section.
- Select "About this device". In the column "Serial Number" you will see a combination consisting of letters and numbers, which next to us will need.
- Go to the Apple website in the device check section for this link. In the window that opens, you will need to enter the serial number, below to specify the code from the picture and start the check by pressing the "Continue" button.
- Next instant the screen will display the device. If it is inactive - this will be reported. In our case, we are talking about the already registered gadget, which additionally indicates the estimated date of the end of the guarantee.
- If, as a result of the verification of this method, you see a completely different device or such a number site does not define the gadget - in front of you a Chinese non-original smartphone.
Method 3: IMEI.INFO
Knowing the IMEI device, when checking the phone to originality, it is necessary to use the online service IMEI.INFO, which can provide a lot of interesting information about your gadget.
- Go to the website of the IMEI.INFO online service. A window will appear on the screen in which you need to enter the IMEI device, and then to continue confirm that you are not a robot.
- The window displays the window with the result. You can see such information as the model and the color of your iPhone, the amount of memory, the manufacturer's country and other useful information. Is it worth saying that these data should be completely coincided?
Method 4: Appearance
Be sure to check the appearance of the device and its boxes - no Chinese hieroglyphs (if only an iPhone was purchased in China), there should be no errors in writing words here.
On the back of the box, see the device specifications - they must completely coincide with those that have your iPhone (compare the characteristics of the phone itself through the "Settings" - "Basic" - "About this device").
Naturally, no antennas for the TV and other inappropriate parts should be. If you have never seen before, looks like a real iPhone, it is better to spend time on a hike to any store, spreading apple technique and carefully examine the exhibition sample.
Method 5: Software
As software on Apple smartphones, the iOS operating system is used, while the overwhelming majority of fakes are running Android with an installed shell, extremely similar to the apple system.
In this case, the fake is quite simple: loading applications on the original iPhone comes from the App Store store, and on the forgery from Google Play Market (or alternative app store). App Store for iOS 11 should look like this:
- To make sure that you are the iPhone, go through the link below to the WhatsApp application download page. It is necessary to do this from the standard Safari browser (this is important). Normally, the phone will propose to open the application in the App Store, after which it can be loaded from the store.
- If you are fake to you, the maximum that you will see a link in the browser to the specified application without the ability to install it on the device.
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These are basic ways to determine the present in front of you iPhone or not. But perhaps the most important factor is the price: the original working device without significant damage can not be significantly lower than the market price, even if the seller justifies that he urgently needed money.