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Have you never traveled outside your home country? Getting a local sim is the best way to get local phone and data rates
well In large parts of Europe (ie EU +EEA) roaming (at least for trips <3 months) local sim cards (unless you need to receive calls from the country in question and don't want the caller to pay international rates) are no longer needed because of Ru rules allowing evryone traveling to use ther phones abroad without additional charge (limited to 27GB /mounth (some other rules apply) to avoid people permanently roaming to get cheap data deals from low cos countries)
 
this makes sense especially if you imagine wireless only charging as well

the device then has no physical ports or points of entry
 
Speaker and mic ports are points of entry.

those are other problems to solve

the long term future of mobile devices are single panes of glass with pcb, radio, display, battery, speaker and microphone all baked in

esim only is one step of many down that path
 
When Apple goes to extreme lengths to maximize battery and minimize space taken up by components like the screen I’d say that relatively speaking the SIM card holder does take up a surprising amount of volume.
Not only that but it's volume that has limited flexibility ( due to the need to be extratnaly accessible), i suspect it us rather easier to integrate an E-sim module as it onlu needs power and a few other traces fot some data I/O infact baring any limitations ser by regs rhey might even be abke to integrate it in the soc or 4G/5G modem
 
On the contrary, if all your carriers support eSIM, changing carriers is even easier with eSIM than traditional SIM. Just flip the switch in the settings. The iPhone can store multiple eSIMs.

So the bottleneck is not the tech, but the carriers.
I rather do not deal with carriers. Its so easy to switch the cards and I can assure you there will be fees, restrictions and other regular BS from them.
 
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I rather do not deal with carriers. Its so easy to switch the cards and I can assure you there will be fees, restrictions and other regular BS from them.
well that bs is whst regulations are for .... oh US carriers in the US never mind that game was sadly list a long time ago, which us strange because sadly regulations ( to some extent at keast) is what a marcket needs to function properly
 
With eSim:)

1:go to local store when you arive at dest
2: by whatever payo plan you want (or can get due to kack of lical address of revidemce etc)
3: pay and scan the qr code they display in yore phones " add e-sim" menu ( whatever they call it)
4: trigger your phones fungtion to select active e-sim for voice/data
5 use the new e-sim untill you leave the country and then delete it

I am not familiar with eSim I thought it ties your phone to a specific number like the old phones. What are the down sides of eSim?
 
Speaker and mic ports are points of entry.
Apple will remove those too. Everyone will have to use AirPods/TWS ear(head)phones via Bluetooth.

After that, it will be the power and volume buttons. Everything will be controlled via voice commands made to Siri
 
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I am not familiar with eSim I thought it ties your phone to a specific number like the old phones. What are the down sides of eSim?
The major downside is that it needs active internet connection to program the eSIM, as the information is downloaded from the Internet.

Many carriers use apps instead of QR codes, too, and it works just by registering/logging in. You can then transfer the number simply by logging out and logging in on another phone. It's almost exactly like physical SIM, without the physical part.
 
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I am not familiar with eSim I thought it ties your phone to a specific number like the old phones. What are the down sides of eSim?
Hmm i'm nit an exoert but I susoect thst cariers ( subject to regulations ofc) can route any number to any sim, ei you can lrobably chang number without changing your sim, in fact the only reason I can see orneeding to change a sim outside of sim faliure is a mno/vnmo change ( apoart ftom internal careier poletics) the sim realy onlu authenticates you yo the network an says bill subscriber number x fir services used from this terminal. That tge nerwork than sugnals so that calls to tel nr arives at that phone is not realy that relevant ( in fact it's justbanother service provided with certain parameters, qos etc). The awful sim locked phones ( that tankfully are now ilegal at least in the EU
/EEA) can probably be implemented on eSim as well as physical sims, but beond a transition leriod ( where not ol carriers have implemented eSims snd som un avoidable implementation gluches are worked out both on the hansets and carrier side i see no isdues for the was majorette of mobile users. Tha said there are allwas cases that fall outside the mojority and the may or may not have longer term problems. If the sim slot removal causes problems for to nany exsisting and/or potential Apple costumers they might do a limmited re introduction. Or tha same will happen with thus as the 3.5mm beadphone. Coplaints and micery from the rest if the industry, then eventual wider adaptation
 
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 ?

Sorry if it’s been answered. Just looking quick…

But swapping to a new phone is as easy as putting the 2 next to each other. It asks if you want to move it. A few seconds later, the magic is complete.
 
Ugh please no. I switched to the built-in SIM when I had EE for a while and okay this enabled dual SIM, but it also meant I couldn't just throw it into another phone I was trying, etc. Which I guess is probably the aim (don't want to make it too easy to try Android!) but what annoys me is as soon as Apple does something, all the Android lot follow. So it's not like there's even be a choice
 
Not going to happen outside the US and maybe some part of Europe but there are poor counties over here.

They would be locking out most undeveloped countries.
I have been to alot of countries in africa and south asia and a lot of countrie are very poor they don’t even have normal stable 3g connection.

These countries are not going to upgrade very soon to eSim.
Apple would be locking out alot of people worldwide.
 
well In large parts of Europe (ie EU +EEA) roaming (at least for trips <3 months) local sim cards (unless you need to receive calls from the country in question and don't want the caller to pay international rates) are no longer needed because of Ru rules allowing evryone traveling to use ther phones abroad without additional charge (limited to 27GB /mounth (some other rules apply) to avoid people permanently roaming to get cheap data deals from low cos countries)
My next trip will be to Brasil where that is not an option. I will need to get a local SIM card.
 
According to @TheYayAreaLiving ? Sketchy rumor claims iPhone 14 will be introduced in September 2022 and iPhone 15 in September 2023.

One less Thing is getting eliminated. An inch closer to a portless iPhone. Let's get it.

I guess you can't do this anymore. ??

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If you get the new iPhone, save these trays and wear them on a chain around your necks.
 
Or, used a third party unlocking provider which would have solved that issue.
Third party unlocking for iPhones are mostly scams. Unlike other phones, unlocking an iPhone means that specific iPhone has to be set to unlock status in Apple’s database. Only Apple and the locking carrier can set that.
 
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