To check iPhone manufacturing date you just need to know the serial number of iPhone. Lets see how to check iphone serial number first and then how the serial numbers tells you the manufacturing date of iPhone. Using this guide you can find manufacture date of iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS.
How to check iPhone Manufacture date: (iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS)
Step-1
Tap on “Settings” icon > General > About.
Here you will find serial number of you iPhone as show below in screenshots.
Step-2
You just need 3rd, 4th and 5th digits of iPhone serial number to know the manufacture date of iPhone. So in the iPhone screenshot the 3rd digit is ‘8’ shows manufacturing year ‘2008’ and the 4th-5th digits ’46’ shows the manufacturing week, 46th week. So the iPhone manufacture date is 46th week of year 2008.
Another example: If the serial number is xx736xxxxxx then manufacture year is 2007 and 36th week.
Update: Apple change the serial number scheme for CDMA iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.
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Thanks for this nice tip to find iphone manufacturing date
nice tip
my numbers are 013
its a 3gs 16gb
from greece
by that it means its been made 13 week of 2000
Do you think there was an iPhone in year 2000? :)
Your iPhone 3GS manufacture date is 13th week 2010.
Thanx for the information
my serial no is 8810140K3NP what is manufacturing date .. plz tell me.
According to the serial no, manufacturing date is first month of 2011
I have only letters no numbers what can I do 4s
Hahaha... same here Bro !! pinge me too if somebody give you the soluton.
My iphone 3gs serial is 000 then what would be the year aand week of manufacturing???? is it 2010 0 weeks??
please reply if anyone have a answer...!!
this is really weird my iphone 3gs serial number reads 5K102C9E3NP how do i read this? anyone?? thanks in advance!
thats 2011 2nd week.
S#-849349TOY7H tell me manufacturing date.
2009 - Week 34
my serial # 5k008******
Manufacture Year 2010 and 8th week
its possible to know if the iphone is simfree or lock, from the serial number?
Thank you
Rami
thank you :)