topic Esim or plastic sim in Apple Devices

Esim or plastic sim

dbucko9 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:51:11 GMT

I have bought new iPhone with you and use a plastic sim in my iPhone 16 but do I put the plastic sim in my new iPhone 17 or use an esim

Re: Esim or plastic sim

bristolian — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:59:22 GMT

You can remove your working SIM from your current phone, and insert it into your new phone.

The whole process should take 2-3 minutes

Re: Esim or plastic sim

Leanne_T — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:12:44 GMT

Hi @dbucko9

Thanks for coming to the community.

I can see you've had some great advice from @bristolian, if you would like to change to an eSIM you can find full information and how to do this in our Downloading and using an EE eSIM page.

Thanks 🙂

Leanne.