Im on esim with us mobile in 13 pro max. As i can recall on the activation, it was a breeze, 2 minutes. The 13 pro max activated on its own after i entered the imei2, didnt have to scan qr code nor enter the activation code manually. Today, literally 2 hrs ago, i entered Mexico. I activated my esim mexico line with in a minute. Couldnt activated by qr code cause i didnt have mean to another device to have the qr code shown. Therefore i activated by manually copied and pasted 2 codes. It took less than a minute for me to have data in Mexico. I will be in Canada in two weeks, i can assume it will be easy also… will see.
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Apple Promotes Benefits of Using iPhone 14 With eSIM While Traveling Abroad
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All figments of own thoughts and complex. And yet here because of Apple lol
Yup. I'll have to change carriers when my 14Pro arrives. Bummer. I really liked the low cost family plan I've been on for years.
Yea, right? I bet carriers wouldn’t adopt micro SIM and nano SIMs either… oh wait! They did!
I also bet carriers wouldn’t apply to be an Apple partner and beg for it and wait for a lengthy certification process to sell iPhones.. Oh wait! They do, all of them!
Apple isn’t big just because it’s Apple. Apple is big because of us as a consumer base. Just like how iOS users spend more money on average on AppStore compared to Android on Google Play making AppStore more important to developers and get more attention in comparison to Google Play, we also spend more on plans and make carriers more money asking for niche services and add-ons that the majority of Android customers don’t ask about.
Carriers will implement eSIM or they will no longer carry iPhones*. Period.
*Exception is if the regulatory body in the country is against eSIMs in the first place like China then Apple will offer an alternative.
Those items are more "accessories". I agree that, at a minimum, Apple should have an option to request a free adaptor with an iPhone purchase (like it gives you choice of color/storage size etc). Remember back when Apple came along with nano simm card and most other mfgs used micro simms? This is same scenario. Same case with lightning connector etc. Ultimately eSimm will be widely adopted.
Nope, you can't convince me this is a plus when most of the countries I visit don't have anyone offering eSim. I'm at the whims of T-Mobile (US) and whatever outrageous price they decide to charge for their international data plan.
Not for nothing, but as little as 12 years ago, not everyone supported GSM, or LTE. In fact, Verizon and Sprint refused to use or sell an iPhone because it didn't work with their own proprietary network, which was CDMA, while it worked for 99% of the world, who was on GSM.
Even they folded, and got the iPhone.
And that was a mixed back of supported and not supported, global standard and nonstandard. And coming up to now, with 4G, LTE, and now what we have, they all have adopted. Both Sprint and Verizon were battling with the GSM carriers saying that their network was better with the iPhone, yet even they folded into LTE, making the standard even better.
My point: all of the time they spent bagging the iPhone while they didn't have it made them feel salty in having to eat their words when they finally got it, as they couldn't reconcile their stance with having the iPhone versus them saying it was a crappy device. The same applies here; it's a mixed bag of supported and unsupported, but eventually, even the staunchest of resistant carriers folded because they saw the revenue they were missing.
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Something must be wrong. Haven’t you seen all the posts from folks that travel to 100+ countries reporting they have had no problems with eSIM? You need to keep up with the times!
You don’t need an international data plan. T-Mobile customers have had free data roaming for years!
Y, Agree with you - there are 2 sets of issues here:
1) Convenience - the availability of using pre-paid SIM cards when traveling - originally from the UK, my family too often uses prepaid / pay as you go SIMs when traveling. Many carriers (in fact most, if not all of the UK carriers I have used) do not offer eSIM for pre-paid or pay as you go plans.
2) Privacy - I have seen less commentary about user privacy; pre-paid / pay as you go SIM card plans offer the most - if not only option for practical anonymity for journalists, privacy advocates, or users & travelers in authoritarian / oppressive countries. There are even scenarios where business & leisure travelers to potentially high-risk countries may depend on switching SIMs between devices to enable them to take a burner device for the duration of their trip & to ensure that their regular device remains risk/threat-free.
& fwiw - with regard to the risk of SIM theft - there are already other well established countermeasures in place (device lock) to limit the allure of stealing iPhones, & SIM / identity theft invariable always occurs through social engineering attacks aimed of the customers account & not theft of the physical SIM card.
Forget about Att store if you can. Call them till you get someone know how to convert into the eSim
Using Apple products ≠ blindly worshipping whatever they do. Maybe for you but not me.
Wrong move. I travel in many African and Asian countries, many of them never heard Esim. Apple should have waited 3-4 years to make the switch. As an Apple fan, I'm really disappointed.
Like 500MB-1GB per month of high speed data, after that it becomes basically unusable. I’m away for months at a time so this simply isn’t an option, believe me I’ve tried.
I'm on the exact same plan on AT&T but oddly enough, i asked 2 AT&T representatives (they even texted their manager and said the same thing) at my local store and they said that it was only for use in Mexico (they said that because they didn't know that it's really for all of Latin America; they think Latin America is just Mexico)
Well then it’s time to finally support it. They are lazy that’s the problem. Apple will force them to move forward
If you're on Magenta Max you now get 5GB of high speed data a month. May not be useful for you if you're gone for months at a time, but for casual travelers it does make it less relevant. It's still way more convenient to pop in a local SIM though - for £10 I can get something like 15 or 20 gigs of high speed data in the UK for a week. More than I'll ever need.
Right, because a different form factor of a physical SIM card is the same as having no SIM card at all lol.
Everything you're saying applies to places where iPhone already has a large presence. Believe it or not, there are places in existence that don't.
"Carriers will implement eSIM or they will no longer carry iPhones*. Period."
Do you hear that? That's the sound of all the carriers weeping in unison. You can't hear it? Huh, I guess iPhones aren't a big deal where they are.
"*Exception is if the regulatory body in the country is against eSIMs in the first place like China then Apple will offer an alternative."
lol There already is an alternative. It's called, "living anywhere on the planet that isn't the US".
Your insistence on defending a trillion-dollar company for limiting connectivity options is laughable but on-brand for a fanboy.
You don't even have to call AT&T to convert from physical to eSIM.
You can do it right on your phone. I've converted my wife, and my oldest daughter's 12Pro to eSIM and my younger daughter's 11 Pro as well. Never made a single call to AT&T or even had to go to their web site.
There's an option in cellular settings to do the conversion on the device.
- On your iPhone, go to Settings > Cellular.
- Tap Convert to eSIM. If you don't see Convert to eSIM, your carrier doesn't support this option. ...
- Tap Convert Cellular Plan.
- Tap Convert to eSIM.
- Wait for your eSIM to activate. ...
- Remove the physical SIM from your iPhone.
lol Look who's talking. There aren't plenty of options in every part of the world. WTF are you talking about? Try educating YOURSELF.
Piece of cake...
I've done it to all of my family's iPhones. Pretty quick too.
- On your iPhone, go to Settings > Cellular.
- Tap Convert to eSIM. If you don't see Convert to eSIM, your carrier doesn't support this option. ...
- Tap Convert Cellular Plan.
- Tap Convert to eSIM.
- Wait for your eSIM to activate. ...
- Remove the physical SIM from your iPhone.
I actually have. None of the mobile phone operators in the UK support ESIM for pay as you go accounts. Same in India - and you cannot activate it without going in person and having them run a background check. Large swaths of South America and Africa DO NOT SUPPORT ESIMs. You can get a global e-sim sure but that defeats the purpose and simplicity of walking into a cell phone store or hut or gas station or wherever, buying a SIM, pop it in the phone, and you're good to go.