Can you text on the iPhone without it being activated?

My dad gave me his iPhone4 but it's not activated so I use it as as a iPod. Can you still text your friends on it even though it's not activated?

If you have Wi-Fi and download a texting app.

Then you can text phone numbers for free while you have Wi-Fi.

Not regular texts. There are some apps that can do texting, but you and your friends would have to use the same app. Text messages travel on the cellular voice line, so without an active phone, you can't send any.

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