Verizon iPhone 16 Pro
- 128GB
- Black Titanium [walmart.com] $24.98/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- Black Titanium [walmart.com] $24.98/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- 256GB
- Black Titanium [walmart.com] $27.75/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- Natural Titanium [walmart.com] $27.75/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- 512GB
- Black Titanium [walmart.com] $33.31/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- Desert Titanium [walmart.com] $33.31/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- Natural Titanium [walmart.com] $33.31/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- White Titanium [walmart.com] $33.31/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- 256GB
- Black Titanium [walmart.com] $30.53/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- Desert Titanium [walmart.com] $30.53/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
- 512GB
- Desert Titanium [walmart.com] $36.09/month for 36 months w/ $500 Walmart eGift Card
1. Order the iPhone 16 online to take part of this deal.
2. Once phone is delivered, activate the phone and place a test call.
3. Go to Verizon store and pay phone off in full, then call Verizon and cancel line within 3 days of activation.
4. Receive the $500 walmart gift card.
5. iPhone is unlocked after 60 days despite not paying for a Verizon plan at all.
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1. After buying the phone in Walmart, you can pay off phone via ATT online chat. For Verizon you have to go to a store.
2. ATT activation fee can be voided instantly from the bill by clicking on "Don't recognize this fee" when the bill arrives even if it's more than 3 days from activation which will mostly happen if you ship it to your house.
3. ATT version can be instantly unlocked using eSIM swap. It's YMMV but for most people it works if you follow the instructions below and do the transfer of the eSIM properly from iPhone to another phone.
4. Even if the eSIM swap does not work I have seen some getting the phone unlocked by chatting with CS once the phone is paid off. That also is YMMV
Sim swap instructions
1. There are two timelines for the cancellation. If you cancel a line before 3 days it was active then the activation fee is waived. If you cancel it within 14 days from activation under buyers remorse then no bill is charged but activation fees need to be paid. But as mentioned earlier that fee can be voided instantly by clicking on "Don't recognize this fee" in the bill even after 3 days.
2. You can use SIM swap method method to unlock the device.
3. When you receive the phone activate it on ATT with the eSIM. Make sure it shows up on myATT app/in the web so ATT knows and registers the IMEI in the network. Then transfer the eSIM to another unlocked phone. Make sure you are transferring the eSIM without making a new one so no ATT involvement. Reboot the other phone, make some calls and make sure this unlocked phone is now showing under the line in app/web portal.
4. Now go to ATT unlock portal https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/ (in incognito mode) and then choose not an ATT customer and use the IMEI of iPhone nd submit an unlock request using a different email, phone number, name etc not associated with the ATT account.
5. Confirm the unlock request email and receive the unlock code.
6. ONLY CANCEL THE LINE AFTER YOU HAVE UNLOCKED THE PHONE. OTHERWISE, YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO UNLOCK IT ANYMORE.
Edit: Forgot to mention you will have to try the SIM swap roughly 24 hours after paying off the phone. The unlock portal syncs with the billing system every night or so.
1. Order the iPhone 16 online to take part of this deal
2. Once phone is delivered, activate the phone and place a test call
3. Call Verizon or log into your Verizon account to pay off the phone and cancel your service within 3 days of activation
4. Receive the $500 walmart gift card
5. iPhone is unlocked after 60 days despite not paying for a Verizon plan at all
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Walmart Gift Offer available for AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile online and in-store purchases. Requires installment activation of eligible phone on AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile payment plan.
For Event 1, Online Purchase must occur between 7:00PM ET November 13, 2025 for Walmart+ members, all other customers begin after 11:59PM ET November 13, 2025 through 11:59PM PT November 16, 2025.
In-store customers can purchase starting 6:00AM local time November 14, 2025 through close of business local time November 16, 2025.
For Event 2, Online Purchase must occur between 7:00PM ET November 24, 2025 for Walmart+ members, all other customers begin after 11:59PM ET November 24, 2025 through 11:59PM PT December 1, 2025.
In-store customers can purchase starting 6:00AM local time November 28, 2025 through close of business local time December 1, 2025.
eGift card is an electronic gift card valid on future purchases. See Gift Card Terms and Conditions or Walmart Associate for eGift card terms here.
eGift card is sent via email within 24 hours of phone activation for in-store purchases & within 21 days after phone shipment for online purchases.
Walmart Gift Offer available for AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile online and in-store purchases. Requires installment activation of eligible phone on AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile payment plan.
For Event 1, Online Purchase must occur between 7:00PM ET November 13, 2025 for Walmart+ members, all other customers begin after 11:59PM ET November 13, 2025 through 11:59PM PT November 16, 2025.
In-store customers can purchase starting 6:00AM local time November 14, 2025 through close of business local time November 16, 2025.
For Event 2, Online Purchase must occur between 7:00PM ET November 24, 2025 for Walmart+ members, all other customers begin after 11:59PM ET November 24, 2025 through 11:59PM PT December 1, 2025.
In-store customers can purchase starting 6:00AM local time November 28, 2025 through close of business local time December 1, 2025.
eGift card is an electronic gift card valid on future purchases. See Gift Card Terms and Conditions or Walmart Associate for eGift card terms here.
eGift card is sent via email within 24 hours of phone activation for in-store purchases & within 21 days after phone shipment for online purchases.
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Who do you call? if you are not a customer how do you speak to them? and what do you have to tell them. does it clear automatically after few months?
Hence my asking how most people online are getting the walmart.com phones shipped to them: ontrac, fedex, ups, something else?
We once actually did try to do an instore purchase…never again…
A few years ago, there was a whole debacle when I had a family member act as an authorized representative for my AT&T account (I'm disabled and immunocompromised and it was during COVID) to try to get the Walmart deal in store since there was something wrong with walmart.com not letting me upgrade even though AT&T said that I was in good standing. (I'm now with neither AT&T or Verizon, so hopefully making a new line/account with either provider would work for me to get this deal online at walmart.com.)
Anyway, after the phone was bought in store by my official representative: the representative had already paid for the various taxes and fees for the phone, the phone was showing up as under my AT&T contract, my AT&T number got transferred to the new phone from my current phone, I sent my representative screenshots showing that it was now under contract to me,
AND YET the Walmart/cellphone agent refused to hand the new phone over until he opened up the box (possibly voiding being able to return it rather than exchange it according to Walmart corporate's policy at least) and mess with it because…reasons that weren't really specified…
His higher up finally came over and backed him up and (according to my representative) was seemingly saying that a certain big country that usually produced the iPhones was saying that the box had to be opened as well…very weird sounding, right?
Again, I'm immunocompromised and it's during COVID, so I really couldn't risk letting the box be opened by some random stranger who's acting fishy and might do who knows what to my phone (I was worried that he might bug it or install something on it or something similar since he was all of a sudden acting so weird).
So Walmart is refusing to hand the phone that I've contractually bought over, I'm at home using wifi talking to AT&T chat who said that the phone box DOES NOT NEED TO BE OPENED BY THE WALMART ASSOCIATE and that Walmart can just scan the box without needing to open the box at all, and another family member who's at home with me is talking to my authorized representative on their phone (since the walmart associate already moved my phone number over to MY new phone). We made up our own little 2 person Mission Control center at home.
My representative was there 7 hours or so in total…the shitshow was really just the last 2-3 hours or so and the cellphone area had been almost empty for all of that time and it still took them that long to process the couple of other people in line, it wasn't just us holding up the almost non existent line…the cell phone employee(s) really took a long time processing other people who were doing the deal too…
Had I known it would be even a QUARTER of that length of time then I would have suggested that my representative swing by the outdoors area in Walmart and grab one of those quad foldable camping chairs to sit and wait in…if they actually still wanted to attempt to do the deal…
By this time it had gotten so bad physically for my representative to just be standing around waiting that they were about to leave without the phone that I was LEGALLY STILL CONTRACTED to pay for, and I was just about to the point of calling the police because of Walmart withholding my legal property (I had already texted my representative screenshots showing that the phone was already under contract to me).
It had taken a few chats on wifi with AT&T (with various reference numbers screenshotted) because they needed me to restart the old phone that had my number previously (which was the phone that I was talking to them on) a few times, but AT&T was able to finally end the contract on their end, AT&T also sent me a new sim card that had my phone number since my old sim card was inactivated by the number being transferred into the new phone, and my authorized representative was able to refund the phone that was never given into their possession from Walmart…they also got the money that they paid for the taxes and fees back…
I never received an egift card that then got cancelled for the refund (just in case anyone is wondering), so between that and from what I was hearing from AT&T it sounds like the Walmart guy might have skipped some steps and put me on contract for the phone and transferred my number before he should have…as in when the purchase was fully completed…but at the time I was still on the hook for a legal contract for the phone and my representative had paid for the taxes and fees, so I'm not 100% sure what he did wrong other than he refused to hand over the unopened phone and the receipt until he opened the box and messed with the phone…
Remember, this all happened a few years ago before I noticed the newer trend of in store Walmart demanding that the brand new phone boxes be opened and messed with…and I had been reading the slickdeals threads about this deal for awhile by then, so this situation was definitely surprising and horrifying for me, my family member, and my representative's side of things…
Had I known that it would happen that way I wouldn't have tried to do it in store at all…I should have just applied for a new Verizon account and tried to do it online…which only dawned on me later on…
Also, because the phone got returned in the Walmart system it's likely that the Walmart representative couldn't later on try to sell it and get a commission from that cell phone…it was a uniquely colored iPhone pro with bigger memory that wasn't available in the other local Walmart stores…and the gift card deal was nearing its end…
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Between this bad experience, the new routine of needing to open up the box in store, and my still immunocompromised self if I ever actually do the deal for myself it likely needs to be online:
Hence my asking how most people online are getting the walmart.com phones shipped to them: ontrac, fedex, ups, something else?
Thanks for any information!
Also in the store they have kiosk machine. When i tried to enter my new number, there was 0 dues. Still it was allowing me to pay via credit card. I didnt tried but may be worth trying. Also you need to visit Verizon Corporate store to pay in cash. Authorised reseller cant take cash.
Hence my asking how most people online are getting the walmart.com phones shipped to them: ontrac, fedex, ups, something else?
We once actually did try to do an instore purchase…never again…
A few years ago, there was a whole debacle when I had a family member act as an authorized representative for my AT&T account (I'm disabled and immunocompromised and it was during COVID) to try to get the Walmart deal in store since there was something wrong with walmart.com not letting me upgrade even though AT&T said that I was in good standing. (I'm now with neither AT&T or Verizon, so hopefully making a new line/account with either provider would work for me to get this deal online at walmart.com.)
Anyway, after the phone was bought in store by my official representative: the representative had already paid for the various taxes and fees for the phone, the phone was showing up as under my AT&T contract, my AT&T number got transferred to the new phone from my current phone, I sent my representative screenshots showing that it was now under contract to me,
AND YET the Walmart/cellphone agent refused to hand the new phone over until he opened up the box (possibly voiding being able to return it rather than exchange it according to Walmart corporate's policy at least) and mess with it because…reasons that weren't really specified…
His higher up finally came over and backed him up and (according to my representative) was seemingly saying that a certain big country that usually produced the iPhones was saying that the box had to be opened as well…very weird sounding, right?
Again, I'm immunocompromised and it's during COVID, so I really couldn't risk letting the box be opened by some random stranger who's acting fishy and might do who knows what to my phone (I was worried that he might bug it or install something on it or something similar since he was all of a sudden acting so weird).
So Walmart is refusing to hand the phone that I've contractually bought over, I'm at home using wifi talking to AT&T chat who said that the phone box DOES NOT NEED TO BE OPENED BY THE WALMART ASSOCIATE and that Walmart can just scan the box without needing to open the box at all, and another family member who's at home with me is talking to my authorized representative on their phone (since the walmart associate already moved my phone number over to MY new phone). We made up our own little 2 person Mission Control center at home.
My representative was there 7 hours or so in total…the shitshow was really just the last 2-3 hours or so and the cellphone area had been almost empty for all of that time and it still took them that long to process the couple of other people in line, it wasn't just us holding up the almost non existent line…the cell phone employee(s) really took a long time processing other people who were doing the deal too…
Had I known it would be even a QUARTER of that length of time then I would have suggested that my representative swing by the outdoors area in Walmart and grab one of those quad foldable camping chairs to sit and wait in…if they actually still wanted to attempt to do the deal…
By this time it had gotten so bad physically for my representative to just be standing around waiting that they were about to leave without the phone that I was LEGALLY STILL CONTRACTED to pay for, and I was just about to the point of calling the police because of Walmart withholding my legal property (I had already texted my representative screenshots showing that the phone was already under contract to me).
It had taken a few chats on wifi with AT&T (with various reference numbers screenshotted) because they needed me to restart the old phone that had my number previously (which was the phone that I was talking to them on) a few times, but AT&T was able to finally end the contract on their end, AT&T also sent me a new sim card that had my phone number since my old sim card was inactivated by the number being transferred into the new phone, and my authorized representative was able to refund the phone that was never given into their possession from Walmart…they also got the money that they paid for the taxes and fees back…
I never received an egift card that then got cancelled for the refund (just in case anyone is wondering), so between that and from what I was hearing from AT&T it sounds like the Walmart guy might have skipped some steps and put me on contract for the phone and transferred my number before he should have…as in when the purchase was fully completed…but at the time I was still on the hook for a legal contract for the phone and my representative had paid for the taxes and fees, so I'm not 100% sure what he did wrong other than he refused to hand over the unopened phone and the receipt until he opened the box and messed with the phone…
Remember, this all happened a few years ago before I noticed the newer trend of in store Walmart demanding that the brand new phone boxes be opened and messed with…and I had been reading the slickdeals threads about this deal for awhile by then, so this situation was definitely surprising and horrifying for me, my family member, and my representative's side of things…
Had I known that it would happen that way I wouldn't have tried to do it in store at all…I should have just applied for a new Verizon account and tried to do it online…which only dawned on me later on…
Also, because the phone got returned in the Walmart system it's likely that the Walmart representative couldn't later on try to sell it and get a commission from that cell phone…it was a uniquely colored iPhone pro with bigger memory that wasn't available in the other local Walmart stores…and the gift card deal was nearing its end…
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Between this bad experience, the new routine of needing to open up the box in store, and my still immunocompromised self if I ever actually do the deal for myself it likely needs to be online:
Hence my asking how most people online are getting the walmart.com phones shipped to them: ontrac, fedex, ups, something else?
Thanks for any information!
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On your XR, go to Settings > Cellular, tap Add eSIM, then tap Transfer From Nearby iPhone
On your 16 PM, follow the instructions to confirm the transfer
No need to call ATT
Not sure how to proceed.
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