iPhone and iMessages registering etc when porting into Visible

Limey
Novice III

I recently ordered a visible physical SIM card and also entered the details to have my T-Mobile number ported over to you. 
After I receive and insert my new SIM card into my iPhone  is there anything I need to look out for in relation to iMessages and FaceTime registration or such ? I’d like to be able to keep my iMessages history in the same thread format. Thanks. 

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Airwolf
Superuser
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I did not have to do anything special.  iMessage and Facetime are tied to your Apple ID, you are just changing the network it communicates over. 

 

For good measure I made sure I had a good backup saved incase the worse should happen but it was smooth sailing for me.

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Airwolf
Superuser
Superuser

I did not have to do anything special.  iMessage and Facetime are tied to your Apple ID, you are just changing the network it communicates over. 

 

For good measure I made sure I had a good backup saved incase the worse should happen but it was smooth sailing for me.

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upstate-SC
Superuser
Superuser

iMessages are not backed up unless you specify that in iCloud backup. So make sure you have your iCloud backup include the iMessages.

 

You may check, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201349

If you want to register/ deregister your mobile phone in apple ID

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If you keep them on your phone, and do not disable or move your apple account shouldn't they remain on your phone?  Just changing the SIM card, I believe should not impact them on your phone, as long as you are not doing a full factory reset of the phone.

 

I did have an issue with my IMessages, but that was because I had Icloud turned on one device but not the other so they didn't stay in synch, then when I turned them both on, it caused all kinds of havoc.   But that is another story for another day.

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My backups are all via iCloud. My primary concern is that I don’t want my existing iMessages to start of using new threads. As in I’d like to keep them grouped as they already are. I remember running into an issue a while ago when iMessages created a new thread for some users. Instead of carrying on with the same thread that was started years ago. 

Limey
Novice III

All went smoothly yesterday.