There will be no SIM card in the next iPhones

No it is not April 1st, and yes it is very likely that the next generations of iPhones will not come with a SIM card slot. We explain to you how it is possible and what it implies.

What is an eSIM, this system already present on some iPhone and iPad in the USA?

If in Europe we systematically have a slot to insert a SIM card in all mobile phones, this is not the case in the United States.

In Uncle Sam’s country, it is possible to use a mobile plan without having a SIM card in your mobile thanks to the eSIM device. Phones offering this option are equipped with a special chip (eSIM literally means “on-board SIM”) which replaces your usual SIM card.

To be able to make calls and go on the internet, you must obviously subscribe to a package with an operator, which will not provide you with a SIM card, but an activation code to be entered on your mobile or tablet ( several generations of iPad also offer this system).

This system also has one major advantage: it allows several devices to be connected to the same telephone line, including with a device hosting a real physical SIM linked to your package.

This device, which still remains quite confidential, even in the United States, does not really please Telecom operators, since it requires them to share certain functionalities with manufacturers (we are thinking in particular of line blocking or number porting. ).

IPhone 14 might not have a SIM card

According to the site MacRumors, Apple has already started contacting American telephone operators to warn them that the next generation of iPhone, which will be released at the end of 2022, will no longer have a port to insert a SIM card. If the iPhone 14 will therefore certainly escape this development, it will therefore concern the iPhone 15 and the entire range of phones that will be released at the same time.

It is not impossible that this change only concerns certain countries, and therefore not France. Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile all offer this support, but you doubt that they already have the infrastructure allowing such a systematic change (my former colleagues at Oberthur must have a cold sweat just by this idea).

However, Apple has shown many times in the past that it doesn’t really care about each other’s opinions when it comes to forcing major change. We would not be really surprised in this respect that the Cuppertino firm made the choice to remove the lightning port from its smartphones in favor of contactless technologies, rather than to comply with the obligations of the European community which stipulate that mobile phones must be equipped with USB-C ports from next year.

Note that if iPhones all switch to eSIM, and your phone is stolen, the consequences of hacking your plan can be financially dramatic.

Anyone know a good training course to learn how to hack iPhones? Considering the crazy price at which the first iPhone equipped with a USB-C socket was sold, there is definitely a market if you ask our opinion …

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