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

[Torheedarmy91]

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 

[bristolian]

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.

[Chris_B · Accepted solution]

@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 

[chrisjp1]

Most Samsung phones have slots for 2 physical sims and come with the software to manage them. Very handy if you travel often to a different country so you can quickly switch over to that country's service, or indeed have both country's services running at the same time.  Not sure about other Android phones, but Apple iPhones have never had 2 sim slots.