My AT&T line was primary, then after a restore, it became secondary, but no real problem.
Until Apple wanted me to designate/assign Verizon as my main carrier when I purchased it.
With iOS 26 on my new 17 Pro, it became #1 again.
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Until Apple wanted me to designate/assign Verizon as my main carrier when I purchased it.
With iOS 26 on my new 17 Pro, it became #1 again.
After activating my phone bought through Best Buy, on my Verizon line, it asked me about assigning my phone number to something like "Primary" or "Personal" but then also assigning "Verizon" to the same options. Now I have two labels, "Primary" and "Personal" (or PE and PR) and one is clearly actually tied to my phone number and the other does nothing. How can I safely remove the one that is not being used?
Under "SIMs" I have Primary and Personal, both are shown as "On," but Personal has my phone number with it. Can I uncheck "Turn on this line" under the Primary label?
Under "SIMs" I have Primary and Personal, both are shown as "On," but Personal has my phone number with it. Can I uncheck "Turn on this line" under the Primary label?
You don't "remove" them, but you can edit them.
"cellular plan label" at the top of each on the "cellular" page.
Also note that settings are different between carriers.
finally... your phone isn't carrier-locked, is it?
It is for 60 days, then it can be unlocked. I’ve always had unlocked phones but this is the first time in years I’ll have any period of being locked.
Here’s how I have it set now (I toggled the other sim with no number to Off).
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But on past phones I never had to label or distinguish anything like this. Is there something most people call this? Personal, Primary, etc all make sense but again, never had to do this before on my 15 Pro.
iOS assigned the labels automatically and you can change it if you want.
It did the same thing here except the label choices "Primary" and "Personal" probably didn't make much sense.
I just name it as the carrier.
AT&T (which has an “A” next to calls/SMS)
and Verizon (V)
AT&T (which has an “A” next to calls/SMS)
and Verizon (V)
It's the 8th year and I finally got eSIM, seamless process. Hopefully we get fully esim soon.
I know you can buy eSIMs from 3HK so I reckon not much difference from before. I believe they require KYC.
Thanks! Yeah a few years back you still had to go talk to them to move between phones which... was a lot worse than physical SIM. I'll check in a couple of weeks.
A dumb question perhaps -- I had forgotten about the "Convert to eSIM" function, but was wondering how well it works in practice? Does it also depend on carrier support for the feature in particular, not just eSIM support in general?
I was going to contact my MVNO anyway to request an eSIM, and have them send me a QR code or whatever method they use, and still plan to do that, but still curious how well the function actually works.
Another reason which popped up in my mind is that they'll need to provision the account for 5G, since I didn't have that service before. In the past, they've needed to flip switches on their end to turn on other features, like VVM, so I'm assuming it's the same with 5G.
If I was going from one 5G phone to another 5G phone, I don't think it would be an issue since I would already have it enabled on the account, and the Convert or transfer via device backup would be fine, but in this case, the leap is from an XS to 17P.
I suppose I could just try it anyway, and contact them to fix whatever may break, or not work, but I don't think that tactic would be as simple and clean as they're accustomed to, and I don't want to test that theory.
I was going to contact my MVNO anyway to request an eSIM, and have them send me a QR code or whatever method they use, and still plan to do that, but still curious how well the function actually works.
Another reason which popped up in my mind is that they'll need to provision the account for 5G, since I didn't have that service before. In the past, they've needed to flip switches on their end to turn on other features, like VVM, so I'm assuming it's the same with 5G.
If I was going from one 5G phone to another 5G phone, I don't think it would be an issue since I would already have it enabled on the account, and the Convert or transfer via device backup would be fine, but in this case, the leap is from an XS to 17P.
I suppose I could just try it anyway, and contact them to fix whatever may break, or not work, but I don't think that tactic would be as simple and clean as they're accustomed to, and I don't want to test that theory.
