Saving contacts to SIM cards

Can anyone answer WHY iPhone doesn’t allow contacts to be saved to the SIM card? Is it simply to charge more money for iCloud over the 5 gig free?

iPhone 7, iOS 14

Posted on Jan 14, 2022 4:26 PM

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Jan 14, 2022 4:34 PM in response to Flc70

Because they don't support it and never have, iphones don't store anything on the SIM card.

SIM cards have very little storage space on them.

It's also easy to pop out your SIM card, read the contact info on it.

Contacts don't take up much space, why would you need to use more than the free 5GB?

Also you can store contact information in any email providers, Google or Microsoft for example.

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Jan 14, 2022 4:45 PM in response to Johnathan Burger

5GB free is not huge, I don’t just have contacts in iCloud but photos etc too, like most ppl.

You used to be able to choose where to save contacts, sim only, phone only or both. Yes I’m old, and until today had no idea they were only saved to the cloud

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