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Sketchy Rumor Claims iPhone 15 Pro Won't Have Physical SIM Card Slot

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iPhone 15 Pro models may lack a physical SIM card slot, according to a sketchy rumor shared by Brazilian website Blog do iPhone.

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While recent iPhone models have a physical nano-SIM card slot and a digital eSIM, the report claims that iPhone 15 Pro models slated for release in 2023 will instead have two eSIMs, ensuring that Dual-SIM functionality remains available. Dual-SIM mode allows you to have two lines of service on one iPhone, which is useful for purchasing data-only plans while traveling abroad or having personal and business lines on a single iPhone.

Given that iPhone 15 Pro models are still two years away from being released, this rumor should be treated with some skepticism until it is corroborated by other sources. Blog do iPhone is also not a well-established source of Apple rumors.

If this rumor proves to be accurate, iPhone 15 Pro models might still have a physical SIM card slot in countries where eSIM service is not available.

The removal of the SIM card slot could further improve water resistance. Apple is also rumored to release a portless iPhone without a Lightning connector in the future, and the lack of a SIM card slot would be another step towards a truly seamless design.

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I'm not so sure about only having a Digital SIM. Does the user have anyway of changing out a digital SIM, or is it in the full control of the cellphone service carrier? Granted I don't claim to fully understand Digital SIM, and what benefits it might have.

Maybe it is just my generally poor experience with AT&T service online and in store ?
 
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I hope they keep physical SIMs. I have a US and Czech SIM for my phone and while one can be an eSIM, the other needs to be physical for travel. I have bought SIM cards in dozens of countries from Somaliland and Uganda to Thailand and Tunisia. it needs to remain easy to pop in a physical SIM.

Having an easy non-US SIM lets me continue to use a known phone number when in US-sanctioned countries like Cuba and Iran where AT&T and such don't work.
 
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Previous to last month, I would have been fine with this. But last month, my eSIM took a dump. For reasons still unknown, I was all of the sudden unable to make/receive any calls, data, etc. I restarted my 13 Pro, completely wiped it, reinstalled from backup, reinstalled fresh: all resulted in the same cellular malfunction. I eventually had to go into an actual AT&T store for the first time in like 15 years to get a physical SIM. That was my first really "catastrophic" (all due respect to actual catastrophes) iPhone issue to date. And that is going back the original launch day iPhone in '07. I'll take that. But not knowing what happened is juts weird.
 
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adamw said:
About time. Having physical SIM cards seem to be a relic of the past. Digital eSIMs appear the way to go.
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I would have said the same thing, until my eSIM fiasco last month that I touched on above. ?
Plus, while I’m not a 2 line, one phone user, it does seem a necessary config for those that are - tho it is entirely possible I don't understand the full capabilities of eSIM. Maybe we can ditch the physical SIM and eSIM is capable of multiple lines.
 
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