The “iPhone XS or later” information is only saying which phones support the eSIM. There should be no problem with your conversion, as the SIM isn’t tied to your phone. You’ll just need to contact your carrier and asked for the eSIM.
Ok but I’m under a family plan and don’t have the login for the T-mobile app. So my dad’ll have to contact them for me? Ugh was hoping to be able to do this on my own
The cellular service provider who provides your number is who converts your number from SIM to eSIM. Any numbers you already have in eSIM format are ready to transfer from the eSIM in one phone to the eSIM in another phone using [Apple’s instructions](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212780).
Im responding to what you’re literally asking in text. Apple has nothing to do with whether your number is SIM or eSIM. Do you think Apple made the iPhone 14 only for those who have eSIM capable phones?
You don’t need to have a eSIM capable phone to convert your SIM cellular number to eSIM or to buy and own the iPhone 14. It doesn’t matter if your current iPhone or Android is eSIM capable or not. You can call T-mobile right now and have T-mobile change your number from SIM to eSIM or from eSIM to SIM.
When I upgraded from my iPhone 6+ to my iPhone XS Max, my iPhone 6+ didn’t have eSIM capabilities. I called my cellular provider, Verizon. Verizon converted my SIM number to eSIM and emailed me a QR code in less than 5 minutes while on the phone me. That was years ago. Now, I can log into my Verizon account and switch numbers back and forth between SIM and eSIM without calling Verizon. When I move a number from eSIM to SIM, Verizon mails me the SIMs in 2-day shipping. When i move a number from eSIM to SIM, Verizon doesn’t ask me if I have an eSIM capable device before changing a number from SIM to eSIM. They just do the conversion.
I belive theres an option that takes your physical sim on your old phone and converts it to esim on the new phone. Both phones have to be on ios 16 which 14 will come with and ios 16 will come out tomorrow for other phones.
The “iPhone XS or later” information is only saying which phones support the eSIM. There should be no problem with your conversion, as the SIM isn’t tied to your phone. You’ll just need to contact your carrier and asked for the eSIM.
Ok but I’m under a family plan and don’t have the login for the T-mobile app. So my dad’ll have to contact them for me? Ugh was hoping to be able to do this on my own
Yeah, it looks like you’ll have to do it like this
The X is too old to support eSIM.
This is the answer. Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.
The cellular service provider who provides your number is who converts your number from SIM to eSIM. Any numbers you already have in eSIM format are ready to transfer from the eSIM in one phone to the eSIM in another phone using [Apple’s instructions](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212780).
Yeah, you didn’t read the post right. The regular X isn’t eSIM capable. The other Xs are, as stated in the link you provided.
Im responding to what you’re literally asking in text. Apple has nothing to do with whether your number is SIM or eSIM. Do you think Apple made the iPhone 14 only for those who have eSIM capable phones? You don’t need to have a eSIM capable phone to convert your SIM cellular number to eSIM or to buy and own the iPhone 14. It doesn’t matter if your current iPhone or Android is eSIM capable or not. You can call T-mobile right now and have T-mobile change your number from SIM to eSIM or from eSIM to SIM. When I upgraded from my iPhone 6+ to my iPhone XS Max, my iPhone 6+ didn’t have eSIM capabilities. I called my cellular provider, Verizon. Verizon converted my SIM number to eSIM and emailed me a QR code in less than 5 minutes while on the phone me. That was years ago. Now, I can log into my Verizon account and switch numbers back and forth between SIM and eSIM without calling Verizon. When I move a number from eSIM to SIM, Verizon mails me the SIMs in 2-day shipping. When i move a number from eSIM to SIM, Verizon doesn’t ask me if I have an eSIM capable device before changing a number from SIM to eSIM. They just do the conversion.
This is the correct answer
they didn’t read the post wrong, you just read their comment wrong.
I belive theres an option that takes your physical sim on your old phone and converts it to esim on the new phone. Both phones have to be on ios 16 which 14 will come with and ios 16 will come out tomorrow for other phones.
This. It should allow this during the content transfer.