iPhone 12 Dual eSim?

[jmmo20]

I know the answer is nope, but it would be fantastic if apple enabled some kind of dual esim support in which your two active sims are both eSims. I would like to have my daily personal plan as an esim, but when I travel I like to use a data esim profile, so if I want to keep the two at the same time I necesarily need my daily sim to be physical.

First world problems I suppose..

 

[catean]

It would really be useful for me too. From my opinion, they can get rid of the physical sim tray.

 

[jmmo20]

It would really be useful for me too. From my opinion, they can get rid of the physical sim tray.

I don't think we are ready for that just yet.
eSims were promised as the new way to easily switch carriers and yet it is still fairly difficult.

at least in the UK:

no prepaid / pay as you go offers eSim yet
EE either sends you a letter with the printed QR code, or you have to go to the shop
Vodafone doesn't offer esim at all

No idea what O2 does.
It should be as easy as getting an app, logging in, downloading the profile.
Only carriers such as Truphone make it as easy as that.

 

[alcorbet]

I don't think we are ready for that just yet.
eSims were promised as the new way to easily switch carriers and yet it is still fairly difficult.

at least in the UK:

no prepaid / pay as you go offers eSim yet
EE either sends you a letter with the printed QR code, or you have to go to the shop
Vodafone doesn't offer esim at all

No idea what O2 does.
It should be as easy as getting an app, logging in, downloading the profile.
Only carriers such as Truphone make it as easy as that.

eSIM.net offers a prepaid / Pay As You Go eSIM that works globally and is 5G enabled. They send a QR code via email so you can literally do everything online through their website or app.

It's one of the easiest eSIM services I've found so far.

 

[jay968]

I don't understand. Data can be used on either the physical SIM and whatever card is in there (provided you have a data plan) OR the eSIM. You can go into settings and tell the phone which one you want to use for data. Why do you need to use 2 eSIMS for this?

Do you mean you want to be able to use data on both lines at the same time? Again, why would you need that to be done on eSIMS on both lines? Why not if Apple just enabled data to be used at the same time with the physical SIM and the eSIM?

 

[kevink2]

I don't understand. Data can be used on either the physical SIM and whatever card is in there (provided you have a data plan) OR the eSIM. You can go into settings and tell the phone which one you want to use for data. Why do you need to use 2 eSIMS for this?

Do you mean you want to be able to use data on both lines at the same time? Again, why would you need that to be done on eSIMS on both lines? Why not if Apple just enabled data to be used at the same time with the physical SIM and the eSIM?

With eSIMS, only 1 account can be active at any time, takes a manual change to switch. With eSIM and regular SIM, the phone can be waiting on a call on both at the same time.

I think that, depending on the carrier, you can essentially do VoIP from one sim to another. Useful if you have support for your US number, then went to the UK and got a local SIM for data and local numbers. The US number would still work, and not be roaming. But not possible if US number eSIM, and you wanted an eSIM for in the UK.

 

[jay968]

With eSIMS, only 1 account can be active at any time, takes a manual change to switch. With eSIM and regular SIM, the phone can be waiting on a call on both at the same time.

Yes, that's what I said. So if you want data to be useable on either line, why not just have one line on a physical SIM and the other on an eSIM? That way you can use whichever data line you want just by switching between the 2.

Or is the challenge to get both lines data enabled without having to switch?

 

[Hoyboy]

I don't think we are ready for that just yet.
eSims were promised as the new way to easily switch carriers and yet it is still fairly difficult.

at least in the UK:

no prepaid / pay as you go offers eSim yet
EE either sends you a letter with the printed QR code, or you have to go to the shop
Vodafone doesn't offer esim at all

No idea what O2 does.
It should be as easy as getting an app, logging in, downloading the profile.
Only carriers such as Truphone make it as easy as that.

Vodafone does offer esim