Why did you simply post a link back to the article, IN THAT ARTICLE'S COMMENTS?
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AT&T in US, Rogers and Fido in Canada, and Many Other Carriers Rolling Out eSIM Support on Latest iPhones
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DUHHHHH.
Well, I just contacted Rogers and they told me they don't do eSIMs for iPhone... only for Apple Watch. I replied, there was an update today... but to no avail. They didn't help me. I wonder if the article is correct.
Thanks for sharing the info. Was this to start a new AT&T subscription, or to replace the SIM (from card to eSIM) of your existing subscription?
[doublepost=1544071048][/doublepost]As soon I read on MacRumors that AT&T started supporting eSIM today. I installed the iOS 12.1.1 and went to Irving, TX local company AT&T store. I had to educate the young sales rep and was told that AT&T did not support eSIM yet. I told them to look at the AT&T website that support started today. After showing the rep the website and the instructions for activating the eSIM, I was successful in switching my AT&T personal line to the eSIM. After returning home I switched my company supplied hardware SIM from Verizon from the Samsung Galaxy S7 into the SIM tray on my iPhone Xs and it worked just fine. Samsung free at last
Coinciding with today's release of iOS 12.1.1, additional carriers around the world are enabling eSIM support on the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR, allowing for dual-SIM functionality on those devices.
According to Apple's website, the latest carriers supporting the eSIM feature include AT&T in the United States; Rogers and Fido in Canada; 3 in Denmark and Sweden; Orange in Poland and Spain; Telia in Estonia and Finland; Telenor in Norway; Swisscom and Sunrise in Switzerland; Vodafone in Qatar; and select others.
In Asia, the eSIM feature can now be used with 1010, CSL, China Mobile, and SmarTone in Hong Kong; M1 in Singapore; APT in Taiwan; Airtel and Reliance Jio in India; and AIS, dtac, and True Move in Thailand.
AT&T's website confirms that it supports eSIM on the latest iPhones as of iOS 12.1.1, while Apple's website continues to state that Verizon and T-Mobile will offer eSIM service "later this year." We've heard from a few people that Verizon may enable support on Friday, but this is strictly word of mouth.
It seems that the rollout of eSIM functionality on iPhones is hit or miss at this point, as a MacRumors tipster claims to have set up eSIM with T-Mobile on the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, while others have had no luck. The ball is definitely rolling, though, so hopefully eSIM support is more widespread by year's end.
The eSIM, or digital SIM, is a non-physical SIM card slot that pairs with the physical SIM card in the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, or iPhone XR to enable dual-SIM dual-standby, a feature that lets iPhone users have two phone numbers available at once -- useful for travel or both personal and work lines on a single iPhone.
Article Link: AT&T in US, Rogers and Fido in Canada, and Many Other Carriers Rolling Out eSIM Support on Latest iPhones
[doublepost=1544071048][/doublepost]As soon I read on MacRumors that AT&T started supporting eSIM today. I installed the iOS 12.1.1 and went to Irving, TX local company AT&T store. I had to educate the young sales rep and was told that AT&T did not support eSIM yet. I told them to look at the AT&T website that support started today. After showing the rep the website and the instructions for activating the eSIM, I was successful in switching my AT&T personal line to the eSIM. After returning home I switched my company supplied hardware SIM from Verizon from the Samsung Galaxy S7 into the SIM tray on my iPhone Xs and it worked just fine. Samsung free at last
Can we get some pics!?
When the eSim for the iPhone Xs/Max/r was announced, I thought “When, or will we get this in Norway?” This time we did not have to wait about 4 years for support here in Norway like Apple Pay October 2014 -> June 2018
Everyone in this thread is wondering HOW you did.
We’re not too interested in knowing that you did it, we’re interested in knowing HOW you did it. That means where, whom you talked to, detailed process on activation (remove old SIM card? Activate manually with att rep? Restart? Setup new primary service?)
Thank you
In November, I was traveling overseas and I was begging an ATT rep to activate my esim on account that others were having theirs activated. I wanted to move my main number to the esim so while traveling I could add a sim card for data. But I ended up finding a service called Gigsky and was able to data through the esim. What a lifesaver and now I don't care if ATT ever supports esim. I found something that works.
I was able to get mine at a corporate store yesterday. She just gave me a card and I did the QR code while she put it in the system. Took about 15 minutes, but I didn't pay anything.
The digital sim is an actual hardware component inside the phone.
it‘s so weird that in the US all phone plans are crazy expensive and still you have to pay extra for having a hotspot. I do not understand that concept anyway - what‘s the difference if you use you data on your phone or on your PC via Hotspot?
Here in Austria, I get Unlimited Calling and Texting with 25GB LTE data for around 15€/month - without any restriction on hotspot usage or whatsoever!
I really don't get this sentiment/comment, an eSim is by far more convenient than a physical one, except not for criminals.(No-not you).
Just a few advantages.
No physical sim needed so:
Can't lose them
Won't break(down)
No fiddling getting it into the SIM slot
No wait for your new Sim to arrive when ordered online so Instant activated online.
Travel to a different country, before travel arrange eSim, upon arriving instantly connected.
I think the eSim is still too limited, your phone should be able to have multiple numbers, for instance, if I travel for leisure or business a lot to lets say multiple countries, I always be connected as soon as I arrive at local prices.
You are lucky, I am from Europe and pay more for quite a bit less, as in, this is by no means standard across Europe.
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I can confirm this is working - just set up at&t esim with Verizon nano sim...working great. Took 45 min at at&t store, can confirm blue QR code cards are what we need for att
I can confirm this is working - just set up at&t esim with Verizon nano sim...working great. Took 45 min at at&t store, can confirm blue QR code cards are what we need for att
Have all the AT&T bugs been worked out? It should be working perfectly after the delay since that was the whole purpose. If so, I may need to jump to AT&T until TMobile can tell me when they'll be ready to go. I need to travel soon and not a word from TMO except "At this time we are working on creating the best experience possible. We will have a solution available before the end of the year, stay tuned!" It's a cut & paste.
John Legere's big announcement today was..a cook book.
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Called tech support again last night, was told by someone else that eSIM is supported. Asked them to confirm a local store had the QR codes in stock. Got the store info. Called the store and they claimed they didn't have them. So today I just went to the store and showed them a picture of what the QR code card should look like. Amazingly they "found one" but they didn't know what to do with it. I asked them to activate the sim associated with the information on the card. Once they did that I went into Settings/Cellular/Add Cellular Plan and scanned the QR code. It asked me to confirm the phone number I was adding. Had the store rep call my added phone number and nothing happened. Had them call my original number and nothing. Shut my phone down and restarted. Now everything works great. Total time in the store maybe 15 minutes. It's really nice not to have to carry around two phones all of the time now!
At the store I went to this morning I showed them a picture of what we had all seen in various discussion forums - that blue AT&T card with the QR code on it - and they looked & found it. Apparently they were locked up and a manager had to get one for me. Once the card was located, it worked like a champ.
Interesting thing was that I couldn't just pull the AT&t sim out and then scan the QR code - it would fail every time. It wasn't until I pulled teh AT&T nano sim and replace it with my work phone Verizon sim that I could then scan the QR and get it all working.
Update from the field. Reached out to Apple support to see if they could help convert physical SIM to eSIM, but was referred to the carrier. Called my local AT&T store to ask if they had the cards necessary to convert, and the associate said that while they do have the cards and the ability the "cards are not available to the public yet." When I asked when they could be, he said his guidance said January. That's a new one.
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Every carrier except TMO charges an upgrade fee. Your argument is irrelevant since it's not unique to ATT.
I am not sure why you were charged. I was given one for free and in fact on the back of the card there was a price tag that said $0.00.
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I was given one from my AT&T store for no charge. In fact on the back of the card there was a price tag that said $0.00.
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Here are the details of what I did. It took about 10 minutes in an AT&T store.
1. I have 2 phones, a 7 Plus and a Xs MAX. I wanted both numbers in the Xs Max.
2. I put the AT&T SIM card from my 7 Plus into the sim slot of the Xs Max. This became "Primary".
3. I then scanned the QR code from the card that the store game me (for FREE) from the SETTINGS>CELLULAR>ADD CELLULAR PLAN link.
4. I answered a few prompts asking me about which would be primary for data, calls, contacts...etc.
5. When I was done with that, the guy in the store had to log into their system and associate my number (previously on the physical SIM) with the new eSIM number from the card. This step associated my number with the "Secondary" phone number on the phone. I can re-label them in SETTINGS.
Once he did that, it worked perfectly. It was very painless, especially considering I was the first one from that store to request it.
The physical SIM that is now in my phone is the SIM from my company's corporate mobile phone that is assigned to me. Thus I have accomplished my goal, separating my work number from personal number but only carrying one single device.
all things considered, the setup was very simple and straight forward . Now to mess around with the settings. More fun tonight.
