Other iPhone XS/Max incompatible with existing SIMs?

[Pejota]

Just noticed on Apple's Tech Specs page for the new phones:

• iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are not compatible with existing micro‑SIM cards.

Can anyone elaborate? I was going to go with the SIM-free option, but I'd rather not have to go to a carrier store for a new SIM.

 

[noobinator]

It uses a nano SIM card just as iPhones have for many years now. I don’t even know which the last to use micro was. Maybe iPhone 4 or something? Which do you have?

 

[Pejota]

Sorry, as soon as I posted I remembered we're already down to nano-sims. Brain fart. Still weird to specify that explicitly on the page.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

So we can pop old nano sim and it should work fine?

 

[noobinator]

So we can pop old nano sim and it should work fine?

Yes.

 

[AppliedVisual]

Yeah, you can pop your existing SIM out of a current phone into the new iPhone.

The iPhone Xs has both a nano-sim and an eSIM (permanently embedded like the the Watch 3 with cellular). It seems from the keynote that the eSIM is being treated as the extra or optional one. I’d like to know if I can order a phone and choose which SIM to be activated. I travel a lot and often pick up pre-paid SIMs in other countries. The Chinese model Xs has dual SIMs and no eSIM so a non issue for those in China.