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Other US iPhone 14's - no sim tray!!!
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i think you fail to understand my relationship with my phone. Your statement is like me saying to you “you could just marry the spouse your company provides you, you don’t really need to pick the one you want”
And only US models have mmWave. Also they are the only models sold in the US. Anything else will need to be imported.
Is this "switch to eSIM" only available in ios 16? My iphone 12 on 15.6.1 does not show this option even though I am even using the eSIM for one of my numbers.
Mine says “no SIM”. So what do I do? I had a big problem last year when I activated an iPhone 13. I had no service on either phone and had to go to AT&T to fix.
I am pretty sure iPhone 12 can only have one eSim and one Physical Sim. I don’t think it can have 2 eSim.
It can store up to 8 eSIMs. Only one can be used at a given time though. 13 can do two if you disable the physical one.
I am planning to buy iphone 14 PM and port two iphone 7 from Metro to AT&T next week
Does it matter if I preorder and not select a carrier, selecting "Connect to any carrier later" instead, even though I will port from Metro to AT&T next week? will I have any issues with unlocking and activating iphone 14 Pro on AT&T?
This Friday (before receiving iphone 14) I will submit an AT&T order for 3 lines(port two iphone 7 plus from Metro and add this new iphone 14 Pro and will configure AT&T order with 3 SIM cards for 3 lines. I would use only 2 SIM since iphone 14 Pro does not use SIM. So that I have the SIM cards ready by Next Friday.
I haven't done this porting and buying iphone for many years. Does the above sound right?
Does it matter if I preorder and not select a carrier, selecting "Connect to any carrier later" instead, even though I will port from Metro to AT&T next week? will I have any issues with unlocking and activating iphone 14 Pro on AT&T?
This Friday (before receiving iphone 14) I will submit an AT&T order for 3 lines(port two iphone 7 plus from Metro and add this new iphone 14 Pro and will configure AT&T order with 3 SIM cards for 3 lines. I would use only 2 SIM since iphone 14 Pro does not use SIM. So that I have the SIM cards ready by Next Friday.
I haven't done this porting and buying iphone for many years. Does the above sound right?
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Question, so my wife and I have a Verizon account with just us and our 2 kids. We don’t want to add any additional lines for my sister because we are grandfathered in to a certain plan. So I was going to open a line for my sister in my name, purchase the 14 pro max on the new account and keep that and give her my 13 pro max, how would that work for me with the ESim ,
not as convenient though as popping out a card and putting it in another device. no phone call required.
Since they already make phones with physical SIM support for rest of the world, it becomes just a matter of discontinuing production of the US-only version.
All phones sold by Apple.com are unlocked if paid in full. There is also no difference whatsoever between any of the carrier choices. They are all the same.
Will you be using the new account for yourself, or will you be giving it to your sister and you’ll be using the same line you had?
If same line then you need to call Verizon and check if they can switch your line to an eSIM without changing your grandfathered plan. Technically speaking there shouldn’t be anything stopping them from doing it. Sadly in reality they could say no because carriers are ass holes.
So the new line will go to my sister, i will take the 14 pro max and she will get my 13 pro max, just making sure there will be no restrictions since its a new line and account. i know it would be easier with a physical sim, just seeing if esim would change that
No you don’t have to do any of this. You can do it all at home and don’t even need to call your carrier. I’ve done it many times before.