r/iphone • u/DeepBlueWing13 • 1h ago

Support iPhone Acts Weird When Getting In My Car

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For the past few days, my phone has been acting super weird when I get in the car. I drive a 2026 Chevy Equinox. What happens is, I’ll get in the car, and after a few minutes my phone will close and give a pop up with “Activation Required” and then acts like I just updated it to a new version, giving me the Hello in different languages. It doesn’t let me back into my phone until I get a WiFi connection which I typically don’t have in the car. This is a huge problem because I lose access to music and the phones map app for GPS. I don’t know what to do anymore.

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u/gefahr 19m ago

Contact your carrier. Seems like an issue on their end, where some towers don't know you.

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u/ohaiibuzzle iPhone 16 1h ago

Do you happen to live in an area where reception is weak?

What happened is that your phone deactivated itself

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u/DeepBlueWing13 1h ago

Not really. I don’t understand this

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u/ohaiibuzzle iPhone 16 19m ago

Basically, your phone either disconnected from the network briefly enough to believe it connected to another and prompt re-activation (usually because it's SIM-locked).

This shouldn't normally happen because the only other way to trigger this is plugging into a computer and manually deactivate the device.