It gives your carrier too much control over what you do with a device you own and makes it pretty much impossible to use burner SIMs. Just bad for privacy in general.

A lot of carriers don’t support eSIM, especially internationally, and here in the UK a lot of carriers only offer eSIMs on specific tarrifs. Some also put restrictions on the type of devices you’re allowed to use them in which is hard to enforce with physical SIMs.

No problem at all. I like eSIM. I wasn’t complaining, It just caught me off guard. Why block the physical sim card try? If it’s an option else where, why am I restricted?

Also, I have old parents. It’s not easy for them to figure this out (as much as I try to explain these things to them) if they are traveling abroad. They just see it as barrier instead of just popping in a local sim card.

@SayJess

I love my eSIM. And, I have a drawer full of “used” SIM cards from previous phones that are just more plastic waste. Good riddance!