HOWTO: Turn on/off SIM Pin in Windows Phone 8 (WP8)

Following up from my post yesterday on how to take a screenshot in Windows Phone 8, here’s another quick tip. This one comes thanks to one of my friends who asked how to turn off SIM security.

Often when mobile phones are delivered they come with a SIM pin turned on. When integrating these in an enterprise mobility strategy, the phones often end up with a corporate-mandated password as well.

To some, entering both a SIM pin and a corporate password is an annoyance – and they would rather only enter their corporate password and turn off SIM security.

In publishing this “how to” guide, I certainly don’t want to suggest that SIM security is not important, I still have both SIM pin and corporate password turned on. I merely provide the instructions for those to who want to have this set up. To turn off the SIM password do the following.

1. Unlock your phone.

2. Swipe right and select Settings.

3. Swipe right to Applications tab, select Phone (shown in the following screen).

4. Scroll down to the bottom and turn off SIM Security (you can also change the SIM password here if you desire).

SIM Security is now turned off, and no SIM pin will be requested on boot. You can turn SIM security back on in the same manner as above as required.

Till next time.