Oh yes, initially I thought O2 (PAYG) were just slow but by now they are clearly using eSIM availability to push people towards contracts.This will be a pain in the backside in the UK, where a lot of the virtual networks or pay as you go contracts do not offer e-sims
I have an old sim in another country with an old phone number that I use whenever i travel there. That plan will most likely never be available as esim and that means i likely lose the number too. Also, I liked to have the option to go to a shop somewhere in the world and just buy a sim and use the local phone/internet services. No you have to do it from the US or at the airport when you arrive.
And I used to put my work phone sim into my private phone when on vacation. That way i can still check work stuff without have to carry a second phone around.
Also, I have bad experiences with esims. I have a t-mobile contract (prepaid, USA) from years ago. I switched it to esim at some point about 5 years ago. Now there is no way to get the esim transferred to a new phone as its a prepaid plan. Tried several times to transfer it and neither their website, not their online chat, nor their experts and not their t-mobile shops can move the esim to anpother phone. So when that phone dies I lose the contract and with that the number. esims are stupid.
Modern iPhones don't have a function for saving or exporting contacts to a sim.I did not think anyone used a SIM these days to store phone numbers, apart from maybe those that have non-smart or feature phones.
Personally I wouldn't need it but I usually put my sim from work into my private phone, so I don't have to carry two phones all the time. This would suck.
Why does Apple always try to sell removing things as a feature? Especially for people with multiple phones the option to simply take the SIM card out of one phone and put it into another phone is very convenient. And it will never cost a fee.
It's possible to setup a SIM PIN
How does that work? Wouldn't you take your SIM out of your phone before you give it to a repair shop?Because with eSIM you don’t have to worry about sim swapping thefts which happen in many cell phone stores and repair shops.
I thought this would be a bid deal but honestly for me it really hasn’t been. eSIM has been really good. But for people that travel internationally frequently I can see this being a big pain.
The reason is that eSIMs need extra IT support, software licenses, servers for activation, and it has additional code considerations that need to be integrated into their back-end software.I suspect there is a reason that low cost providers lack support for eSIMs. It won't be laziness, ISPs would love to save money by not shipping physical SIMs. I wonder what the commercial relationship is between ISPs and Apple wrt eSIMs. It would not surprise me if ISPs had to pay Apple some sort of fee to support eSIMS.
That’s exactly it. When traveling, have to take a different phone with a SIM card. It sucks. I think buying iPhone internationally has been better due to the lack of a SIM card slot. For travelers who travel to developing countries. Places in South America, Africa and Asia don’t even have eSIM and don’t know what it is. For the countries that do, have to take a passport and go to a phone store. Whereas with a SIM card slot, can buy a card that works unlimited everything for a month for usually $10 to $15. This is obviously done for the carriers and nothing else.I thought this would be a bid deal but honestly for me it really hasn’t been. eSIM has been really good. But for people that travel internationally frequently I can see this being a big pain.
What if I’m traveling abroad and my phone dies (for whatever reason), and I buy a new phone… how do I transfer that eSim to the new phone while traveling?It super simply to change an eSIM to another device, there is no reason to keep physical SIM slots.
Only the slow and weak can't figure it out and complain.
Can also be a very high security risk.
I really hate it, I want the SIM card back. It makes it impossible to upgrade a phone without paying someone else $50 to click a button.I thought this would be a bid deal but honestly for me it really hasn’t been. eSIM has been really good. But for people that travel internationally frequently I can see this being a big pain.