eSIM support for the new iPhone Air

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#3413557 11-Sep-2025 07:37

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eSims when travelling is truly a game changer.

One can land, and have a connection as soon as you switch on you land.

Just remember to turn off the other SIM before turning the phone off, or risk being pinged for a roaming day. Or more.

Or just disable roaming on the other SIM.

I think that option is device specific. Had issues with my wife's iPhone 12? when we last traveled. No issues with my Samsung s21 though.

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#3413674 11-Sep-2025 11:20

The iphone 17/pro are esim only in certain countries as well, they have an increased battery life due to no sim slot.

Esim sellers for international travel often tell you who the service provider is. Singtel is common enough that any travel to OCE works okay. Sparks is from poland and will affect latency quite a bit.

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#3413749 11-Sep-2025 12:56

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freitasm:

turtleattacks:

eSims when travelling is truly a game changer.

One can land, and have a connection as soon as you switch on you land.

Just remember to turn off the other SIM before turning the phone off, or risk being pinged for a roaming day. Or more.

Or just disable roaming on the other SIM.

hard when you have a Samsung which doesnt allow disabling roaming on a per SIM level, and some eSIMs require roaming on to work.

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#3414954 14-Sep-2025 20:20

Jase2985:

Handle9:

freitasm:

Just remember to turn off the other SIM before turning the phone off, or risk being pinged for a roaming day. Or more.

Or just disable roaming on the other SIM.

hard when you have a Samsung which doesnt allow disabling roaming on a per SIM level, and some eSIMs require roaming on to work.

Those are two seperate issues. If Samsung doesn't have that feature that's a specific handset problem. Certainly there are other phones that have this feature.

Most travel eSims need roaming to work but this was specifically about the sim you didn't want to roam

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#3414955 14-Sep-2025 20:22

insane:

Handle9:

freitasm:

Just remember to turn off the other SIM before turning the phone off, or risk being pinged for a roaming day. Or more.

Or just disable roaming on the other SIM.

I think that option is device specific. Had issues with my wife's iPhone 12? when we last traveled. No issues with my Samsung s21 though.

iPhone supports sim specific roaming

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#3415008 14-Sep-2025 22:11

SpartanVXL:

The iphone 17/pro are esim only in certain countries as well, they have an increased battery life due to no sim slot.

Esim sellers for international travel often tell you who the service provider is. Singtel is common enough that any travel to OCE works okay. Sparks is from poland and will affect latency quite a bit.

17 Pro and Pro Max eSIM models have better battery life, which is why I want the eSIM model. Oh well, maybe next year.

Physical SIM cards are definitely on their way out!

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#3415041 15-Sep-2025 08:45

shk292:

Having read some of the threads about people needing to visit an NZ carrier store in order to get an esim, I think this would be a backwards step. I'm a big fan of esim for travel, but having your main sim as physical seems the safest way

I agree entirely. I use Airalo esim when traveling and it just solves all the headaches. However I also carry one of my old phones as a spare in case I break the main phone and being able to just swap the SIM if needed means all bases are covered.

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