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Question about Dual sim -I am not able to use it-

Here are a few of the many ways you can use Dual SIM:

  • Use one number for business and another number for personal calls.
  • Add a local data plan when you travel outside of the country or region.
  • Have separate voice and data plans.

With iOS 13 and later, both of your phone numbers can make and receive voice and FaceTime calls and send and receive messages using iMessage SMS and MMS.* Your iPhone can use one cellular data network at a time.

* This uses Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS) technology, which means that both SIMs can make and receive calls.

What you need

To use Dual SIM, you need iOS 12.1 or later, two nano-SIM cards, and one of these iPhone models:

  • iPhone 12
  • iPhone 12 Pro
  • iPhone 12 Pro Max
  • iPhone 11
  • iPhone 11 Pro
  • iPhone 11 Pro Max
  • iPhone XS Max
  • iPhone XR

 

Here's how to install the nano-SIM cards:

Insert a paper clip or SIM eject tool into the small hole of the SIM card tray, then push in toward iPhone to remove your SIM tray, notice the notch in one corner of the new SIM card. Place the new SIM card into the bottom of the tray — it will fit only one way, because of the notch. Then insert the other SIM card into the top tray.

With the two nano-SIM cards in place, insert the SIM tray back into the device completely and in the same orientation that you removed it. The tray fits only one way.


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Posted on Jan 17, 2021 4:17 PM

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Posted on Jan 18, 2021 7:19 PM

Double physical SIM cards are only for the Greater China region (excluding Taiwan), it is a hardware modification of the phone itself, giving the SIM tray and slot a different design and the SIM card reader also has contacts on the top and bottom instead of being only on the top in other models. It is also why the Chinese models have different model numbers from all other models. This exception is made to the Chinese models because China doesn't provide eSIM service, but all other countries around the world where iPhones are sold do.

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Jan 18, 2021 7:19 PM in response to damuluri

Double physical SIM cards are only for the Greater China region (excluding Taiwan), it is a hardware modification of the phone itself, giving the SIM tray and slot a different design and the SIM card reader also has contacts on the top and bottom instead of being only on the top in other models. It is also why the Chinese models have different model numbers from all other models. This exception is made to the Chinese models because China doesn't provide eSIM service, but all other countries around the world where iPhones are sold do.

Jan 18, 2021 7:21 PM in response to damuluri

You guys? This is a voluntary user to user forum. Apple Inc is not participating here.


And the document you linked to in your post title DOES indeed make the distinction between the models sold in China, Hong Kong and Macau and everywhere else. It is not the USA models that are different. It is the China, Hong Kong and Macau models that are different from EVERYWHERE else.


Other than those three regions that support dual physical SIMs, iPhones sold EVERYWHERE else do NOT support use of dual physical SIMs. They do support dual numbers through the use of one physical SIM and one programmable eSIM.

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