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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
This is probably an elementary question, but my Googling has yet to find a definative answer. Is a GSM SIM unlock separate from a jailbreak on the iPhone? Most of what I read seems to suggest you have to JB an iPhone if you want to GSM unlock your phone.
I'm hoping an unlock is separate from a JB. I'd rather not have to worry about bricking my phone doing OS upgrades because of an unlock.
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They are different, and an unlock generally requires jailbreaking, at least in my experience.
The likelihood of you bricking the phone is pretty small these days. But you will always lose the unlock when you update the OS. The unlock is something that is performed based on generating a customized ipsw (iPhone firmware) file.