Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret
kalleboo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The screen died on my wife’s iPhone, fine I have other spare iPhones aplenty she can switch to. But she had switched to eSIM so we couldn’t just move a physical SIM over, you had to go through the “transfer eSIM” menus, which we couldn’t do because the screen was dead. The only option the carrier gave us was going to a physical store.
I’m never switching to eSIM, what a PITA for absolutely no upside.
3abas@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Your carrier is the problem. I just login to my carrier’s app on the new phone and boom new esim.
wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What a sane person would want to install a shitty carrier app just for that? There should be a way to do it via their web ui in the least
3abas@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Well, my carrier’s app isn’t super shitty, actually. No ads, no bloat, just account management.
But… You get a new phone, you install the app and login to get your esim, then uninstall. Not exactly a difficult problem.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s not a solution. There is no other carrier that has the coverage I need.
The problem with eSIM as a concept is that it puts too much responsibility on the carrier, and there are way too many shitty carriers out there, and with the cost of building a network and the limited amount of spectrum, mobile carriers are not a functioning free market.
fatalicus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That doesn’t mean that your carrier isn’t the problem.
Just like the person you replied to, I to can just log in to my carriers app on a new phone and get eSIM fixed there if my old phone is in an unusable state.