Apple's iPhone 14 brings concept of eSIM cards to the mainstream. Bob O'Donnell. Special to USA TODAY. For most everyone who has ever owned a smartphone, a SIM card has been part of the equation.

But with eSIM, all of this information is embedded with your smartphone’s motherboard instead. This digital shift removes the need for a physical card so now you can juggle multiple virtual SIM ...

If using an iPhone with iOS 17.4 or later, you can touch and hold the QR code and then tap Add eSIM. Go ahead and follow the on-screen instructions, hit Continue and tap Add Cellular Plan .

Apple has had support for eSIM since the iPhone Xs/XR, but it has gone all in by ditching the physical SIM card slot for iPhones from version 14 and later sold in the U.S.

Starting with the iPhone 14, Apple is ditching the physical SIM card tray. Instead, the latest iPhones will use eSIM technology, which uses software rather than a physical card to store your cell ...

Like the iPhone 14 before it, in the United States, the iPhone 15 won’t ship with a physical SIM card slot. Instead, Apple has pivoted entirely to eSIM technology.

If your new iPhone comes with a physical SIM card slot, you can simply insert your old SIM card into it and convert your physical SIM into an eSIM. How to convert your physical SIM card to eSIM on ...

If you have an iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, or later models, it supports eSIM. In fact, in the US, Apple has opted for eSIM-only models with iPhone 14 and later. So, the easiest way to ...

Yes, some phones are eSIM-only and therefore require eSIM. iPhone 14 models and newer are eSIM-only in the US, meaning they lack a physical SIM card slot. Most Android phones include both a ...

A SIM card is a unique identifier in every cell phone that enables the device to connect to wireless networks in order to text and make calls. An eSIM refers to an “embedded” SIM, or a card ...

Apple has offered the ability to use an eSIM ever since the arrival of the iPhone XS, but there was still a slot for a standard SIM card. In the U.S., that changed in 2022 with the introduction of ...