ESim Questions

That’s the beauty of eSIMs.

They are impossible to physically remove from your phone … can’t be inserted into a criminal’s phone for nefarious purposes … yet they are easily and securely transferable electronically to another phone by a properly-authenticated individual.

Some carriers allow you to move your own eSIM to a different phone by yourself, using their online account management tools.

Finding a carrier store to obtain a replacement nanoSIM is a “thing of the past.”

With “Dual eSIM” phones becoming more prevalent, you can even temporarily transfer your line to the physical phone of trusted friend or family member until you can obtain a replacement phone.

My own “interpretation” of that is that a user can’t do it by themselves using only the phones as it DOES indeed require user input via the screens on both phones.

The operative word in this case being “YOU.”

However, the carrier can move an eSIM as long as they have the needed address info of the new “gaining” device.

They don’t require the “concurrence / approval” of the “loosing device” … a carrier can always “pull the plug” on any of their own provisioned mobile devices.

Meaning: You’d simply have to call this particular carrier in this situation.

You never “loose your number” (as long as you pay your bills)