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Adding second esim for travel

WEJ — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:35:29 GMT

I an currently using an esim on public mobile, but will be traveling to Europe and am looking to get a second esim for the month. Is it possible to have 2 esim cards on a Google pixel 6? If not, if I download a travel esim does it remove the first, and how would I reinstall the public mobile one on my return home?

Re: Adding second esim for travel

kb_mv — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:59:18 GMT

@WEJ You can have more than one esim on your phone. You just need to select in settings which one you want active at any given time. If you look at the photo, I have 5 sims installed, 4 of them are esim.

Re: Adding second esim for travel

Handy1 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:04:45 GMT

@WEJ Yes you can have more then one eSIM at a time , you also have the option of using physical sim for travel also

Re: Adding second esim for travel

hTideGnow — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:08:00 GMT

hi @WEJ yes you can. Beauty for eSIM is you can install as many as you like. Just .and sure you don't delete the PM eSIM. When you are in Europe, set the travel esim active. When you Re back, set PM eSIM active again

And a great travel eSIM carrier is Airalo

Re: Adding second esim for travel

BKNS27 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:18:35 GMT

@WEJ

Unfortunately, the Google Pixel 6 only have 1 nano SIM and 1 eSIM so you can’t have 2 eSIM on this phone.

You need to purchase a local SIM when you are in Europe or get one from Amazon.

Re: Adding second esim for travel

kb_mv — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:19:01 GMT

@BKNS27 wrote:
@WEJ
Unfortunately, the Google Pixel 6 only have 1 nano SIM and 1 eSIM so you can’t have 2 eSIM on this phone.
You need to purchase a local SIM when you are in Europe or get one from Amazon.

@WEJ @BKNS27 You may want to look into that. Yes you can only use 1 esim at a time on the Pixel 6 (same as my Pixel 5) but you are not restricted to only having one on your phone. My pixel 5 is older and has 4 esims on it right now.

Re: Adding second esim for travel

BKNS27 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:24:11 GMT

@kb_mv

Thanks, I personally don’t have a Google Pixel 6. Just did a search:

https://m.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_6-11037.php

It shows a nano SIM and eSIM.

Re: Adding second esim for travel

kb_mv — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:17:00 GMT

@BKNS27 @WEJ My pixel 5 says the same thing on that site. It means it supports both. You can have more than 1 esim profile downloaded to your phone but you can't have more than one active at the same time. With Pixel 7 (and above) you can use 2 esims at the same time but GSM arena says the same as the 5 and 6, nano sim and esim.

Re: Adding second esim for travel

WEJ — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:30:10 GMT

Thanks so much! This is very helpful!