Don’t say you weren’t warned. After cautioning customers earlier this week that unlocked iPhones may be disabled when installing future Apple software updates, the company on Thursday made good on its warning.

Two iPhones in the Macworld offices that had the SIM hacks applied to them were disabled after installing iPhone Update 1.1.1. The update process went through without a hitch, however, when the phone restarted an activation message appeared that said, “Insert an unlocked and valid SIM to activate iPhone.”

A similar message appeared in iTunes. A note saying the SIM card was not valid and to insert a valid SIM card greeted the user.

You could not navigate through the iPhone’s menus, either. The “Slide for Emergency” slider is the only thing available after installing the update. This allows customers to make emergency calls only.

Unfortunately, we can’t say at this point if the update affected third-party applications like AppTapp. Since the iPhone would not let us into the phone’s menu system, it was not possible to see if the applications were still installed.

Apple warned customers on Monday that unlocked iPhones may become inoperable. “Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed,” the company said in a statement.

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