Same for me. I didn’t transfer my eSIM until after 10pm last night. Everything went smoothly.
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iPhone 15 Pro Max Unable to Transfer Phone Number
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Same for me. I didn’t transfer my eSIM until after 10pm last night. Everything went smoothly.
I had the same issue. And I didn’t have the old phone because Apple had taken it for the trade-in. When I got home and tried to activate it, I had all kinds of problems.
First it was iCloud that was acting funny because Apple would send a verification code to my iPad but it wouldn’t always appear and when it did it was only there for about a half a second. I had to take a video with my wife’s phone to actually see the six numbers.
Then I tried to do the number transfer through the AT&T website, but I couldn’t receive a verification text. Finally got through to an agent and they had it activated within about five minutes. I better not see an activation fee for this fiasco.
First it was iCloud that was acting funny because Apple would send a verification code to my iPad but it wouldn’t always appear and when it did it was only there for about a half a second. I had to take a video with my wife’s phone to actually see the six numbers.
Then I tried to do the number transfer through the AT&T website, but I couldn’t receive a verification text. Finally got through to an agent and they had it activated within about five minutes. I better not see an activation fee for this fiasco.
Had the same issue, was on the phone with ATT for about an hour while they went through various trys and finally used the IME 2 and EID numbers to program in their system. Finally it worked using the transfer to ATT option instead of transfer from old phone.
Very frustrating, wish I had checked here before calling ATT.After 10hrs of being on hold I finally got an agent on the line. How did you move past not receiving the verification code? That is where my CSR is stuck.
On the phone with Verizon now and have been working on it for an hour! Why would this be such an issue as you would think that would have tested this over and over. Tech even said " you cannot have 2 lines on the same phone" WHAT? Sure glad I have my wife's phone so we can do all this "trouble shooting" to get this fixed! I wouldn't think this is rocket science.
I called in, gave my phone info and everything (T-Mobile) and they still needed to text me the code to activate but its the phone I’m trying to activate with that code they can only text?!
im told I have to visit a store, the only issue I have is not being able to call or text or receive in both instances. I have other devices I can do connect to the world with except there are people important to me that only does calls so this is a huge pain in the butt for me.
im told I have to visit a store, the only issue I have is not being able to call or text or receive in both instances. I have other devices I can do connect to the world with except there are people important to me that only does calls so this is a huge pain in the butt for me.
****Update. This morning I walked into an AT&T store and they transferred my eSIM in 5 mins. Att store is the quickest way.
I was unable to initially transfer the phone number from my old phone to the new one. To resolve this issue, I continued the restore and once that was done, I reset the OLD iPhone (14PM) and did not erase the eSIM. Once it was reset the number transferred with no issues using the manual setup in the new iPhone (15PM).
Hope this helps someone.
iMessages come through wifi
SMS will only be delivered if your phone is currently activated for the destination phone number
Esim transfer with T-Mobile went smoothly for me yesterday. Picked it up at 5pm. Set it up at home around 6 — flawless.
I had zero issues this year on multiple phones (helped family members). Last year, a couple Verizon phones had problems, but they fixed it in store. Seems to be going way more smoothly than before.
Did the ATT people tell you what that did that ended up working? I'm in the same boat and they were not able to do anything for me. Thanks.