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Just bought new phone not sure whether to stick with SIM or go to esim

Torheedarmy91 — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:41:55 GMT

I have just upgraded my phone, I'm in the process of setting it up.

It is asking whether I want to stay with an physical SIM or have an esim?

I understand that esim is safer in the long run. But which is best the physical SIM or an esim?

Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you in advance

Re: Just bought new phone not sure whether to stick with SIM or go to esim

bristolian — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:08:36 GMT

Not sure what you mean by an electronic SIM being safer in the long run, but a lot of this is probably just personal preference.

Electronic SIM is certainly "the latest and greatest", and has advantages if you want to free up a physical SIM slot.

Physical SIM is certainly easier when changing phones, and enables easy SIM-swapping in fault scenarios.

I've yet to find any advantage of eSIM except for the SIM-slot scenario, personally.

Re: Just bought new phone not sure whether to stick with SIM or go to esim

Chris_B — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:08:32 GMT

@Torheedarmy91 You can enable the sim pin on both the physical sim and the eSIM. It doesn’t get much safer than that, and other than this there isn’t any real benefit of having one over the other if you don’t require two sims in one phone