iPhone 13 Pro Max esim to physical sim conversion

[dukebound85]

Does apple have a quick utility to transfer between an sim and a physical sim card?

I am wanting to use an older iPhone for outings that I do not want to subject my new iPhone to

 

[nephron8]

you can transfer esim to esim device.

to make esim in to physical sim,you would need to visit physical store to transfer your e sim to blank sim.
sim exchange at carrier side.

 

[Shadowbech]

Basically what above mentioned. You can go to your local carrier store to get this done or you can go to any local apple store as they do carry the major 4 SIM cards and they will sell it to you for free. Depending on carrier, you can also order them online at their website and have it delivered to you. I pretty much prefer a physical SIM card over e-sim

 

[George Knighton]

This happens often for some reason. T-Mobile has an online "Change SIM" function that you can use to move from an eSIM to a SIM, from a SIM to an eSIM, or creating a new eSIM.

 

[Nbd1790]

You can also call your service provider and they can do it over the phone for you. I just did it recently and only took a few minutes.

I had a similar situation recently where I was trying out an iPhone Mini and wanted to be able to bounce between my current one and the new one to see which I liked better. Just beware, apparently this can cause iMessage to freak out and take a really long time to verify your phone number for iMessage (not every time, but a few times I swapped).

If that happens, the only thing you can do is wait the 24 hours for iMessage to verify your phone number. So basically - try not to do it too often.

 

[dukebound85]

I use straight talk and hope they would have a utility for this

 

[George Knighton]

(not every time, but a few times I swapped).

If that happens, the only thing you can do is wait the 24 hours for iMessage to verify your phone number. So basically - try not to do it too often.

If you want to switch back and forth a lot, then a physical SIM might be the best option.

If you are on T-Mobile, you can activate the line in Digits without having to remove the number from the other device, provided you have some kind of number active in the new device.

When they first tried to sell me on using the Digits application, I didn't like what they were saying.

But the truth is that if you do what they say, you can have several lines active on several devices, and move back and forth as you want.

However, there must be some kind of anchor, some kind of data connection provided either by a cellular SIM or eSIM, or WiFi.

 

[George Knighton]

I just want to come back and confirm that I have three working, active numbers on an iPhone 13 Pro Max.

One is a US Mobile eSIM that I will use for voice and text coverage where T-Mobile is weak. (US Mobile is Verizon.)

Another is a T-Mobile Magenta Max eSIM line that I will use as primary wherever I can, and with a QCI = 6 it is quite speedy even with one or two bars of LTE.

The third line is a free virtual line in Digits, which T-Mobile provides to Magenta Max users as long as you're also using the Scam Shield application. I have been using this number as a business contact for quite some time and it works fine for voice and SMS. It will not use iMessage, of course.

All three numbers active at one time.

The physical SIM slot is empty and available for another line. Any line installed via the physical SIM would work as long as I turned off one of the eSIM.

 

[ukms]

I use straight talk and hope they would have a utility for this

A utility for what exactly ? …. As has been mentioned above a swap back to a physical SIM is done by the carrier as it’s their SIM managed by them and nothing to do with Apple.