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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by smileybarry on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @02:43PM (#29717150)
That's more to do with the carrier than the eSIM standard or phone, though. My iPhone supports eSIM but my carrier (and the others, apparently) refuses to provision eSIMs for anything that isn't a smartwatch.
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by k8sToGo on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:28PM (#29717694)
The eSIM worked just fine on the iPhone before.
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by smileybarry on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:34PM (#29717767)
Like I said -- more to do with carrier restrictions. Your carrier doesn't have Pixel 5 on the "allowed devices" whitelist, so when it sends a registration request via that eSIM the network rejects it. (Your carrier knows which phone model is attempting to activate a SIM, even a physical one, and can reject it for whatever reason. It's just less common)

My Pixel 2 supported WiFi Calling but my carrier didn't acknowledge it as "supported" and the carrier's servers refused to send it a settings file.

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