Apple’s upcoming iPhone 14 series smartphones have been making the rounds for the past few months, despite the lineup being months away from getting launched. There have been several reports about the upgraded features of the device.
The iPhone 14 models are also rumored to ditch the nano-SIM card slot and will instead have support for eSIM. Now, an analyst has indicated that this could indeed turn out to be true and the Cupertino-based tech giant may launch eSIM-only iPhone models this year.
Emma Mohr-McClune, a Technology Service Director at GlobalData, says (via iMore) that the Apple iPhone 14 series may come with only eSIM support without any nano-SIM card slot. However, Mohr-McClune adds that the company may offer a variant with a SIM card slot for those carriers that still don’t support eSIM functionality.
The company has been slowly expanding the eSIM functionality on its smartphones. It first added support for eSIM with the iPhone XS and XS Max launch and with the recent iPhone 13 models, it added support for dual eSIMs.
Recently, it was reported that Apple is even working on a transition as some U.S. carriers will start offering select iPhone 13 models without a nano-SIM card in the retail box from Q2 2022. The company is already selling iPhone 13 models without a nano-SIM in the box if the product is sold through Apple Store or Apple.com.
If the reports about the eSIM-only models for the upcoming smartphones from Apple turn out to be true, then Apple must be testing waters and expect the company to completely do away with the physical SIM cards for the iPhones with new iterations.
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