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7 points

Exactly the same as a normal one. It just works and you don’t really need to do anything with it. Everything seems the same just no little card in the side of your device.

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What if I need to change the SIM?

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5 points

You get a QR code for the new sim, go into the eSIM manager on the phone, and scan it

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I don’t want a “new sim”, I want my old one, which doesn’t exist anymore since it was virtual and only existed in my now broken previous phone. How does it work in that situation?

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10 points

Until this article I thought you could swap eSIMs between phones, exactly like normal ones

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I thought you could too but I use Google Fi and I just log into my Google account on a new device and it lets me deactivate the old phone and download the sim to the new phone.

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4 points

Tbh I think you effectively could, but it would technically be your provider issuing a new one.

For me I just log into my provider’s online account screen and I’m able to scan a new QR code

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Yah and mine charges for a phone transfer. No thanks I’ll keep physical sim as long as in can.

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Eh that’s not really the same. And reading this thread it seems many providers (including mine) don’t support online QR codes.

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