Network Phone Unlock
A network lock leaves a handset effectively the carrier's, whatever the receipt says. Give us the IMEI with the country and carrier it is tied to, and the phone is released on the records that hold the restriction.
Instant Device Check
Unlock your phone from its network
Enter your IMEI, then choose the country and carrier it's locked to.
What happens after you submit the IMEI
Give us the number
Dial *#06# for the 15-digit IMEI, then tell us which country and which carrier the handset is tied to.
The request goes to the network
The IMEI goes through the official channel and is whitelisted on the manufacturer database against that handset.
Put in any SIM
When it completes the phone stops refusing other networks, and stays that way through resets and updates.
On the record
The unlock is a change to the manufacturer database against your IMEI. Nothing is installed on the handset and nothing is bypassed.
A reset will not undo it
Wipe the phone, update the OS, sell it on. The unlock stays attached to the device.
Free afterwards
Once it completes the handset will take a SIM from any carrier, at home or abroad.
What a network lock actually is
A phone sold by a network is often tied to it and will refuse SIMs from anyone else. The restriction is held in a database against the IMEI rather than in a setting on the handset, which is why clearing it is a record change and not something you can switch off yourself.
That also marks out what an unlock does not do. It frees the handset for other networks and nothing more: money still owed on a contract, an IMEI barred for loss or theft, and an iCloud Activation Lock are all separate records with separate answers.
Which handsets, which networks
Every major make goes the same route — iPhone, Galaxy, Pixel, Xiaomi, Motorola and the rest — on networks in most countries. Pick the country and carrier above to start.
Dial *#06# on the handset for its IMEI, or read it under Settings → About.