In recent days, a rumor has spread that Apple is preparing to abandon the entrance to SIM cards for the iPhone 15 Pro. iPhone blog, but after all, it can be done earlier than expected.
An anonymous source reportedly informed MacRumors that Apple could be preparing this measure as of September 2022. Which means that all iPhone 14s can arrive without a physical entrance for the SIM cards.
The iPhone may arrive without a SIM card slot as of 2022
Referring to this source, Apple will have already informed the most important operators in the United States of its next measure. He even shared a previously dated document, although it doesn’t directly refer to the iPhone or Apple.
MacRumors says that to make the transition smoother, some carriers will start shipping the iPhone 13 without nano-SIM cards in the box in the second quarter of 2022. Something the brand already does in the Apple Store or on the website official.
It remains to be seen whether Apple will choose to remove the SIM card slot from all iPhone 14 models, or just the Pro versions, for example. It should be noted that at the time of writing, these statements are nothing more than hearsay.
In case you didn’t know, the eSIM acts like a digital SIM card and allows you to associate a number and rate without the need for a physical card. This is something that current iPhones already support, and the big change could be the abandonment of physical cards.
Remember that it is Apple’s will to launch an iPhone without ports in the near future. And the ability to remove this physical SIM card slot is just one more step in that direction.