Switching phones

[openprairie]

Hi:

My wife and I have iphones 6 and 7 and want to buy iphone 16es.

We want to keep the physical SIM cards.

How easy is it to switch over and would the physical cards be compatible and would there be any issues?

Thanks

[Chalupa_Batman]

Hey @openprairie 

Just to throw this out there, you should go to the apple website and click on compare phones. Enter the 16e vs iPhones like 14 14 plus 14 pro and so forth. The question you have to ask, is it really worth spending extra money for a 16e that pretty much has all the bells and whistles a 14 or 15 has? I myself purchased an iPhone 14 Plus for $600 off Amazon that was refurbished. It came, it was in mint condition and 90% battery life. Plus it has updates till at least 2034 as per Apple. It really depends if you want to spend that extra money for something you may not use. Just throwing that out there.

[Sansan]

I am an Android fan for life lol. Just bought a new Samsung phone amd it was soooo easy to switch on Saturday. 

  I was so scared as I have a million photos and videos and I do not back up or have anything on cloud. Everything is on my SD card or internal phone. 

I took the SIM card and popped into new phone.

And I was so pleasantly surprised how easy it was. You could switch wireless or with the cable they provided.  I chose the cable. It took about 2 hours and I was back up and running🤗.

The tedious part is logging back into all my apps and games. So many passwords to remember 🤭. 

[BKNS27]

@openprairie 

If there is an Apple Genius store in your area. Have staff setup the new iPhone 16e for you and your wife. 
If not then have a friend or family help you.

If you are going to purchase them at your Costco. Unfortunately staff won’t help you set up the iPhones.

[openprairie]

Thanks.

We’re seniors and haven’t done this for about 7-8 years.

[BKNS27]

@openprairie 

Easy as apple pie. Just pop the old SIM and place it in the iPhone 16e. You account is linked into the old SIM.

But don’t purchase the American iPhone 16e because it only have eSIMs. The Canadian iPhone 16e have SIM & eSIM.

[slusagm]

You just need to remove the sim card from the old phone and put it into the new phone, no account change or anything, everything in the sim.  You just need to backup your phone data and migrate

If you are unsure, bring your phone to Apple store and a nice staff will help even you are not giving them business

[hTideGnow]

HI @openprairie 

the pros for using sim card is that it is easy to swap phones and nothing else you need to do.  Just pop the sim card out of the iPhone 6 and 7 and move to the iPhone 16.  Make sure you put the sim card the correct way and that's all you need to do.