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Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret (arstechnica.com)
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[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

The screen died on my wife's iPhone, fine I have other spare iPhones aplenty she can switch to. But at some point she had accepted a prompt on the iPhone to switch to eSIM so we couldn't just move a physical SIM over, you had to go through the "transfer eSIM" menus, which we couldn't do because the screen was dead. The only option the carrier gave us was going to a physical store.

I'm never switching my main carrier to eSIM, what a PITA for absolutely no upside.

(they're great for throwaway travel SIMs though)

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Your carrier is the problem. I just login to my carrier's app on the new phone and boom new esim.

[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What a sane person would want to install a shitty carrier app just for that? There should be a way to do it via their web ui in the least

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Well, my carrier's app isn't super shitty, actually. No ads, no bloat, just account management.

But... You get a new phone, you install the app and login to get your esim, then uninstall. Not exactly a difficult problem.

[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

How do you how shitty it is or not? Have you examined their code? Do you trust them blindly to let them run arbitrary code on your device? They are preferring to shove their app into our devices for many many reasons that non of them are for our benefit.

And uninstalling right after is closing the gate after the horses are long gone

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