I did my upgrade though the apple website but went with carrier financing. I traded in my iPhone 13 Pro Max, for the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Got 400 trade in credit. I didn’t have to provide anything up front since the trade in was considered my down payment. I have about 500 left to pay it off. The one thing I was expecting but didn’t happen and I don’t know if this was a screw up or not, but the phone is completely unlocked.
I had some concerns about that since my 13 Pro was paid off and I had the house phone ported to consumer cellular. In order to add the number I had to pay off my 13 Pro to have it unlocked to add the second line.
This time, I was able to add the line easily onto the new phone. I checked the settings and the phone has no sim restrictions. I actually got an unlocked iPhone this way. Granted I don’t plan on changing carriers at this time, but if I wanted to, I could and stop paying on the phone. LOL.
I’m not going to do that. But I was actually shocked to find that the phone was unlocked and that I can use any carrier, even though I did the T-mobile upgrade, but I purchase it from Apple.
I know if I did the purchase directly from T-Mobile, that the iPhone would have been locked. So this worked out..
Makes me wonder if you purchase the device directly from Apple when you are on T-mobile if the phones come unlocked.