{"id":145854,"date":"2022-09-07T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-iphone-14-ditches-physical-sim-cards-for-esim"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T20:24:20","slug":"the-iphone-14-ditches-physical-sim-cards-for-esim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-iphone-14-ditches-physical-sim-cards-for-esim","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone 14 ditches physical SIM cards for eSIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-iphone-14-ditches-physical-sim-cards-for-esim2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s new iPhones \u2014 the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus \u2014 won\u2019t have physical SIM cards. The company announced the nugget at its event in Cupertino today, revealing that eSIM will be the only way the iPhone 14 series authenticates with wireless carriers \u2014 at least in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>ESIM lets you change a wireless carrier, data or service plan through software rather than having to swap a physical SIM card. It\u2019s hardly a new technology, but it\u2019s only within the last few years that eSIM has become more common on mainstream mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple said that major carriers including T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&amp;T will provide resources to assist with eSIM-related questions, service upgrades and changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s new iPhones \u2014 the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus \u2014 won\u2019t have physical SIM cards. The company announced the nugget at its event in Cupertino today, revealing that eSIM will be the only way the iPhone 14 series authenticates with wireless carriers \u2014 at least in the U.S. ESIM lets you change a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}