There can be many reasons that lead us to have to deactivate the SIM in mobile phones , more urgent or less urgent, but in any case we have at our disposal a variety of wide options to achieve, among other things, not receiving calls, not being able to connect to Internet and disconnect from the mobile completely or make it so that nobody can use it.
In technology there is no single path that gives us a solution, but there are several that provide the same result. With the intention that the possibilities of the SIM card do not resist you, we give you the keys that will make you have under control the status of the SIM card in the mobile, without differences between the brands or even the operating system that we have.
The options to deactivate the SIM with the mobile in hand
Undoubtedly, most of the options that we have before us to prevent the SIM from working on the mobile are given when we have access to it, being able to choose a series of options that under no other circumstances can we use.
Airplane mode, the fastest solution
Faced with a specific case where we have to prevent the SIM card from working yes or yes, what we will have to do is simply start the airplane mode of the mobiles that offers us just one button away the possibility of not being connected to the mobile network and therefore not receive mobile calls, SMS and not connect to the data network . However, this does allow us to continue using the WiFi or Bluetooth network among all the functionalities of the smartphone.
For those who do not know how to use it, they only have to lower the curtain of quick accesses in Android and in the case of iPhones, display the control panel. In case we do not see the small icon that takes us to airplane mode, we can enter the Settings and there we will have that option, waiting to activate it in case we need to disconnect from the network.
Remove the SIM, without messing around with little girls
Although previously removing the SIM could be the fastest option, now it is not always the case since we no longer have the facility to remove the back cover and we will need our tool as a key to extract and therefore stop working. SIM card , thus ensuring that it will not work under any circumstances.
Without the SIM card inside the smartphone we will not receive calls or any type of community through the network, of course the data network will not work, but as with airplane mode, if we can continue when the WiFi and all the other functions of the mobile. Both in Android and iOS we will need our so-called “spike” to extract the SIM card and without losing it, leave it away from our mobile until we want to reactivate the SIM.
Turn off mobile, but losing a lot
The last solution that we would have at our disposal so that the SIM card is not enabled in the smartphone is based on turning off the device. With it off we will not be able to make or receive calls, but nevertheless we will not be able to make other functional beds that mobile phones have. Among them, listening to music, taking photos or consulting our notes and agenda, a way to discount completely.
Deactivate a card in a Dual SIM mobile
With the arrival of smartphones with a dual card option, a new possibility was born to temporarily get rid of the SIM card, as these smartphones introduce the option of deactivating the card that we do not need, thus giving us the option of, for example, carrying the work number and the staff, deactivating the work when we are not in our working hours.
The option is not only limited to physical SIMs, but also does not allow the ability to disable mobile eSIMs. For this reason, you only have to enter the Settings> Mobile networks and then touch the SIM cards to make the corresponding change and thus we can choose the one we want to use at all times.
What do others hear when calling us with the SIM deactivated?
It does not matter which method we have decided to use to deactivate the SIM card in the mobile of all those we have seen so far, when someone calls us by phone they will receive the same contacted by the operator, a message more than well known:
The mobile phone you are calling is switched off or out of range.
This can be accompanied by another phrase to leave a message in the voice mailbox, in case it is activated or by a cutoff that invites us to try again later and hope that we are lucky. In any case, users who have decided to call us will not know why this audio appears ; If we have run out of battery in the mobile, we do not have coverage in the area where we are, we have turned off the mobile or we have not even activated the airplane mode so that no one else bothers us.
Our only solution for a lost or stolen mobile
In cases where we need to deactivate a SIM card because we have lost the mobile or someone has made it disappear, the only thing we have at our disposal is to call the operator from the contact number and explain what happened to proceed to request a new duplicate SIM card and the old one stops working.
Not deactivating the SIM cards in the missing mobiles could lead to expenses on our bill or even more complex situations that nobody wants to face. In addition, we will not be able to live with two SIM cards with the same phone number working at the same time, so it is inevitable to block the previous one to be able to continue when our usual phone number and that people can contact us.
