how to switch my current phone number to a new Tmobile iphone I just bought

  • 21 August 2021
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My current phone with tmobile is an iphone 6s and it is broken, it smashed into pieces… so I bought a Refurbished Tmobile iphone 8 plus and dont know how to switch all of the info in my old phone into my new phone… I also want to keep my number, but dont know how to switch it to my new phone.  I did put the SIM card from my old iphone into my new iphone, but that didnt do anything.  please help 


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To move your phone number, just remove the old SIM and insert it in the new phone. If you don’t still have the old SIM, you’ll need a new T-Mobile SIM inserted in the new phone. Depending on if your account is prepaid or postpaid, you either call 611 (should work with a new SIM) or call Customer Service from another phone or go online to your account settings and perform a “SIM Swap”.

Your address book, files, etc will have to be restored from backup either on iTunes or the iCloud, wherever you backed the phone up.

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