Global (also known as CDMA) and GSM are two different technologies. GSM uses a SIM card while Global is attached to a specific network. Knowing this about your device can help you determine what you can do with it. Here’s how you can tell if your iPhone is one or the other.
How To Tell If Your iPhone Is Global Or GSM
Most devices today are GSM because you can switch your SIM card across networks and the phone isn’t attached to one network. To see if your iPhone is GSM or Global, follow these steps.
Find Settings
First you will open up your settings on your iPhone. You need to find the model number of your phone so you can see if it is Global or GSM.
Go To General
Find General under Settings. It should only be a little bit of a ways down.
Click About
Click About. This will lead you to all the information about your iPhone including your Model Number.
Identify Model Number
Your Model Number should be within the first box right under Model Name. You will need to write this down or copy it to your clipboard so you can compare to model numbers later on.
Go To Apple Support
Next you will go to Apple Support to identify the specs of your phone. This is where you can figure out if your phone is GSM or Global.
Look At Your Phone Specs
You will need to scroll through until you find your mode name of phone. So if you have a iPhone 14s, then click on the tech specs for that model.
Compare Model Number To Specs
A page will open for the model of your phone and there will be quite a lot of information. You will scroll down until your find Model Numbers and compare your model number with the correlating number.
Once you have compared those, it will tell you beneath the number if your phone is GSM or Global. Most newer models have the GSM technology but there is always a few exceptions.
Outro
Now you know how to tell if your iPhone is either GSM or Global. If you have a GSM model then it means you can switch networks without the need to get a new phone! Yay!
