If anyone has any idea how to fix the main issue- seen at 10:50- definitely want to hear from you. discord.io/91tech Join the discord, whether or not you know! Hope to see you there :)
I recently had this issue on a 5S with iOS 9.3, what solved it for me was just installing an active SIM card (device was unlocked). I saw a comment saying this might be an A9 chip issue, I recently set up an SE1 and didn’t have the issue when nothing was in the SIM slot. Maybe it’s because I was on iOS 15, and it’s possible this issue is specific to A9 running iOS 9.
You might be able to update it in iTunes to connect to a computer with iTunes if you’re fine with the phone being updated if you’re not then I don’t know what to do or say
I can’t believe Just seeing all the accessories that are in these old IPhone boxes is now already very nostalgic. I miss the days of getting a new iPhone and just getting free EarPods with the phone.
And just having multiple pairs laying around the house. I guess on the bright side, it makes us want to take better care of our earphones since we know we have to pay for a replacement instead of just raid the pile.
@@ceebee23 I'm looking to replace my galaxy a32 5g with something to replace it I'm looking between $160-$200. That isn't to small or isn't to big preferably a iphone
The iPhone 6s was a great phone, I got it for my birthday when it first came out. It was one of my favorite iPhone model designs ever. also, I really miss the physical click of the home button.
@@emilsecker7881 Who said I was using it as my main phone? Lol, nah it’s just a device for my collection. Of course I don’t use a almost decade old phone
Hi! I’ve read a lot of posts and comments about this issue with ios 9 activation error on reddit. Basically the 6S(+) and SE (2016) model would not activate on ios 9 since 2018, because there was an issue with the amount of signals the antenna chip would emmit. This would not be regulatory. This was discovered later on (2018) and was only effective on ios 9 A9 phones. Thus on why this specific ios was killed off by Apple. So if you have one of those devices on ios 9 that were already activated, there’s a high chance that it will get deactivated. My advice, keep the phone off the internet. Don’t put any sim in it. If you have more knowledge about jailbreaking: jailbreak the phone while u still can and save the Activation tickets. If one day u have this deactivation problem, you’ll be able to activate it manually. Anyway, i hope this helps!
@@Bendaak it’s mostly out of nostalgia purposes that people would get a hold of ios 9. If you use it as a primary device than yes, it’s better to be on a newer version. If it’s not, than it doesn’t really matter. My iPhone SE is still on ios 13, planning on keeping it there.
@@emmanueldernoncourt8593 I don’t get it. There is little to no nostalgia past iOS 6. iOS 9 isn’t too much different in appearance from iOS 16. I would advise you update for security proposes and additional app support if your SE is your main phone. 15.7 runs extremely well on this device and I expect a further 2 years of app support and security updates.
@@Bendaak no worries i know about the security updates. The iPhone SE is one of the many iPhones i have in my collection, so it’s not my main device. Thanks for the advice, cs you are surely right about that. If you don’t get the nostalgia, that’s fine. But other people feel nolstalgic for other reasons than yours. I feel nostalgic about ios 9, because that is the iOS i started off with. Nostalgia is a personal feeling, not a factual thing.
I remember the day the iPhone 6s was released, I was so excited because of the 3D Touch… good memories, kinda sad what iPhones have evolved into nowadays as they were previously sooo much better… great video btw, been watching for years and your content never fails to entertain me :)
The 6s was not a huge thing. Been following Apple for a very long time and I can say that the 4, the 5s and the X were the most amazing phones when they were presented, because they actually brought a LOT of innovation at once. The 6s brought the 3D touch (useless for 99% of people) and a mega CPU (people dont usually value that). Since the X we’ve have solid phones, but nothing crazy
imo the 6s+ isn't outdated since it's still getting updates frequently (although i keep mine on lower version to jailbreak since it's not my main anymore)
I believe in some way you need to jailbreak/exploit the phone to delete the Setup Assistant, or maybe trying to use a 3rd party app like iMazing or 3utools to try skipping the Setup Assistant. This has been something I have consistently heard of throughout legacy iOS communities but I personally have no experience with this problem. I hope I can at least point you in the right direction with this, though.
3u can’t bypass this kind of activation error. People have been trying to fix this issue for years and ive only seen one dev actually pull off activating these activation bricked devices but no tool has been released yet
From September 2015 to as I type this comment I am the owner and daily user of an iPhone 6s Plus 64GB Silver model running 15.7 and with 1.1GB space available. The A9 in my unit is from TSMC. I have the original display with minor scratches and I’ve dropped my 6s Plus countless times with only a Apple OEM leather case protecting it. I have the original battery with battery health maximum capacity showing 72%. Sadly I don’t use my headphone jack having AirPods Pro for years that work well with my 6s Plus. I use my 6s Plus for CarPlay daily. Both of my vehicles are newer model years than my iPhone haha. I also use my 6s Plus for Apple Pay everywhere I can in store or online. I enjoy taking photos using the 12MP main camera with optical image stabilization and on/off/auto HDR. I love 3D Touch for cursor selection. I love my physical second gen Touch ID home button. I love double touching Touch ID for reachability feature dropping down the display. Per the iPhone 6 bend gate issue and 6s fixing that with 7000 series aluminum I am happy to say my 6s Plus is not bending! My 5.5” display with squared off corners and No Face ID obstruction makes for a great viewing experience. Needless to say I’m a holdout for the iPhone we all dream of but never get. My iPhone keeps giving and I don’t want to replace it with what we’ve seen just yet. What I want in a dream iPhone: USB-C, iPad Air style Touch ID, the dynamic island reimagined more so a dynamic beach along top of display meeting a slim array of hardware under the top black bezel, MagSafe with CarPlay data transfer, Made in the USA.
@@emilsecker7881 why do I need the brand new iPhone 14 when my 6S Plus plays everything I need and gets security updates. You might be rich but we aren’t. Don’t be dumb.
The iPhone 6s Plus is an awesome iPhone I’ve been using it since 2017 The reason I chose the 6s plus was because I didn't like the fact I had to use a dongle just to use headphones with the 3.5m jack Another one was because if I had to charge my phone I had to stop listening to music and charge the phone So these two are my reasons I still prefer to have the headphone jack but it's fine Anyway the iPhone 6s plus is an amazing phone 10/10 Have a nice day ✌️
@LuLuTheCat • I went with the 6s plus only because it had a more powerful processor than the 6 and it was the last one with the headphone jack That's all, I have the 6s plus I know my phone and I hate the 7 plus so 🤷
@LuLuTheCat • I bought my iPhone 6s plus In 2017 when apple kept selling older iPhones In the store anyway I know my model Anyway I wish you a nice day ✌️
@@blackmuffin8287 oh, the way you worded your first comment made it seem like you bought a 7 and couldn't stand the lack of a headphone jack but you're now used to it
@@luluthecat1570 I got the 6s plus but now I've switched to the s22 ultra Now I just use my iPhone for editing music or videos if I have to I said I couldn't bare the lack because I didn't like the idea of using a dongle just to use headphones with the 3.5mm jack and another reason I chose the 6s plus it's because I could listen to music with headphones using the 3.5m port while I charge my phone 😅 I'm sorry if my wording was incorrect 😅 Anyway I will you'll have a nice day ✌️
i think the activation error is because at one point apple accidentally signed every ios version in existense and a lot of people downgraded their iphone 6s to ios 9 on mass. This was back in 2018 but because of that it is now impossible to setup an iphone 6s on ios 9 without activation error to this day
This was my second iPhone I bought, I got the iPhone 6s back in 2017 to try apple out and it was only 99 dollars brand new so I figured what the heck I’ll try it. I absolutely loved it but it was a little small for me and for 50 dollars more I quickly switched to the 6s plus. Over the years I switched to the 7 plus then a 11, and after that went to a 13 then last month got the iphone 14 pro. Absolutely love the apple ecosystem and have switched all my devices to all apple except for one windows 11 laptop for games
The activation error is because a long time ago, apple did an oopsie and made the iOS 9 install firmware file public and signed so people could downgrade, and apple realised that and made it so iPhone 6s models running iOS 9 cannot activate!
It's super hard to just find an iPhone 6s on iOS 9. And I remember seeing a few years back saying that they would brick your iPhone 6s if you were on iOS 9.
@@emilsecker7881 That’s Apple for you. All they want to do is make it harder for people like us who collect phones with older iOS. The most annoying thing I swear is the almost impossible downgrading. Why can’t I just use a IPSW and they be signed? I know to almost everyone it don’t matter. I just hate that I’d have to spend hundreds of dollars finding old iPhones on their original OS.
@@SWOhioSpeedtesting I've seen very few demonstrations on YT on Semi-Tethered downgrades on iPhone X and older and it looks completely outta my league...
to fix your activation error you would have to update it to latest ios. sadly thats the thing after apple did something to their activation servers and 6s and 6s+ wont activate no more when on ios 9. you can always jailbreak and activate it by force, but you will lose signal most likely.
just jump start the original battery. cut off one end of usb cable and stick + to + and - to minus and hold it like that for a few seconds. your battery should start charing after that like brand new one.
check what version of ios 9 you are on. if you have 9.0-9.1, the error can be mitigated untethered. reply if you see results. to see the ios version, try to plug the device in normal mode into checkra1n. it will say unsupported, but will tell you the version
something speical about the 6s plus, such a good cpu at the time, awesome design, great camera, and honestly it deserves all the years software updates.
Wow, the other day I got an old iPad 2 for my tech collection, and I was able to activate it! It gave me one error screen, but it eventually activated and I checked the settings and it was on something like iOS 9.1.5 and I have no idea how I did it.
I hate Apple for this. I have some new iPhones 6 (not 6S) on iOS 9 and im facing this same issue. Why Apple, why. I'm not updating it NEVER and f**k you Apple, I will wait for some bypass that should be "Easy" for some devs to make, because this device is checkm8 compatible..
I rebuilt a iPhone 6s that someone had thrown against a fence. It separated into three pieces on impact and sat In the wet grass all night. I gathered the pieces the next morning and ordered a new screen, battery and home button. Got it all back together and it’s been my most solid backup. Say what you want but they made those phones strong. Maybe not the ones today :(
Man I had the 6s I was waiting for the 7 in black to be in stock to upgrade and I dropped it in the toilet. Immediately upgraded to the jet black and dealt with those micro scratches. Was pleasantly surprised the phone still worked after being submerged because I don’t think it was advertised as being water resistant.
I have a 6s and this is a issue that really puzzled me. It was really simple to fix, I just updated it through itunes, but what's the point you can't run ios 9 🤷🏽
Damn, after watching this I immediately went and turned off wifi on my iOS 9.3.5 iPhone 6s that I've been saving for years. I wish you the best in getting yours activated.
Came here from Hugh Jeffrey’s video mentioning this. I like your unboxings of old iPhones and stuff but you have to be realistic about how this whole thing would go. Obviously you need a new battery as it’s been sitting for 7 years. Second, Apple has run the show on software updates since the beginning of their main devices like Mac, iPhone, iPad etc. In order for devices to operate and function normally, to patch major bugs and glitches etc yes you need to update to the latest software. All in all this shouldn’t be a huge shock.
it only A9 ipad and iphone cant be activated on ios 9. but iPhone 6 can I know this because I have 6 on ios 9. and I had iPhone 5s on ios 7 before I update to ios 12 because it kept boot looping because of cydia progem.
I had the iPhone 6s up to iOS 11 or iOS 12 but I love that phone I’m looking for one right now lol in that same color you have. But the problem you talking about I never experienced that
This iPhone did not need a battery, only the battery with a long period of time that was not used in it no longer had energy, you only needed to open the phone and charge the battery in a direct way by + and - for a few minutes after that it will work fine 👍🏽👍🏽
@@michaelm8188 yeah but at that point it’ll be so slow laggy and unusable it’s useless Apple’s iOS updates do nothing but kill the performance of that model as it gets older
I have a gold iPhone 6s Plus which is in a junk drawer with a few other apple devices and it’s my dads. Sadly I tried everything but the battery is dead so it wouldn’t turn on.
The boot loop doesn’t make sense, despite it is willingly placed by Apple. We have videos of original sealed an opened iPhone 5, which where 10 years in hypersleep without any bootloop at all…the iPhone 6S is 3 years younger…so something isn’t right here, hm?
Because the high battery and the big size screen like a iPad I watch unboxing of old iPads and they bootloop the way yo fix it put it on dfu mode for couple hours then it boots up again I wander why didn’t work
iphones bootlooping when not getting voltage from the battery, and if voltage of battery gets too low BMS cut it off = battery charging won't start and bootloop
I'm looking to replace my galaxy a32 5g with something to replace it I'm looking between $160-$200. That isn't to small or isn't to big preferably a iphone
0:00 0:12 wnwnwnwwnwnwnwnwnwnw 10:38 ahh no I have an idea: delete the setup application by using an arduino or something like that or use some other program which lets you do that by getting into its filesystem.
Oh no! Not one of those bs "high cap" batteries. Battery tech hasn't advanced meaningfully enough since the release of this device for the battery to somehow fit 4500mAh in the space of 2750mAh. House fire, incoming!
My second iphone right here and the last I ever used I'm considering switching back to iphone for Christmas I know I'll miss 3d touch it was my favorite feature but gotta change with the times I guess.
@@Lucrativecris nah I'm over the home button phones and I already want to downsize the current phone I have so the 6.1 inch phones are what ill look at
@@KawaiiGames873 it didn’t get iOS 16 but it could have. Apple supported the a9 iPads on iPadOS 16 and considering the 6s has the same a9 chipset as those iPads it could’ve probably have ran iOS 16. I think apple wanted ppl to upgrade but either way the 6s had a long run.
Do not I repeat do not every claim apple making environmentally friendly packaging !! When they make more waste with all the sold separately products you have to get
It’s fine. I bought a new/sealed SE which was manufactured in 2016 according to the serial number 6 months ago and it works fine. The battery worked but would die around 15% so I had it replaced and the device is working perfectly.
@@Sammy36843 No, 2-3 years is probably fine for an Apple battery because Apple batteries are very good quality. If the battery has been lying for 5+ years then it may need replaced. All batteries are different though so it’s a crapshoot. You never know for sure if it needs replaced until you actually use it for yourself.
@@Bendaak reason I asked I don't like the s22 ultra and was planning to get an s21 ultra I keep seeing in some stores in my country so was thinking if I get that next year I hope I don't find issues... But am also looking out for the iPhone 15 ultra seeing how the leaks are coming
You don’t need a heat gun, the trick is to use 2 suckers, one on the back and one on the front, to separate the panel from the rear chassis. I think 91Tech probably melted his screen a little as he damaged his table because he used an overpowered heat gun when a hairdryer would have been more than enough.
@@emilsecker7881 stop replying to people that have old phones saying that their phone is ancient. Who cares, they don’t have to upgrade, the 6s and 7 may not get iOS 16 but will still get security updates. If they’re happy with their phone then let them be happy
unfortunatly the activation error is caused by the ios 9 on it and ios 9 not being signed by apple no more... sorry but you will have to update it to ios 15.7.1 to fix it...
maybe deleting the app (first, backup it) (i dont remember name of it but it's available in tutorials) with checkra1n like in icloud bypasses will work?
