Google, itself also a manufacturer/OS maintainer, would just be catching up. Gently press the SIM card in until it clicks into place. Insert or remove the Nano-SIM card into the SIM tray with the gold contacts facing up and the notched edge on the bottom right. To insert a SIM, insert a SIM tool into the small hole to eject the SIM tray. To enable two eSIM profiles on your eligible device: Open your phone's Settings app. The SIM tray is located on the left side of the device. Tip: To have your phone ask your network preference every time, tap Ask me every time.
In serving the latter roles, Apple has already moved the iPhone 14 series in the United States to eSIM only and may be looking to do so for iPhone 15 devices elsewhere, including the United Kingdom. To set call and text preferences, tap your networks. But it takes every player up and down the component stack from chipset designers like Qualcomm to phone manufacturers and operating system maintainers to enable this shift. Such a move would cut down on precious hardware space needed to store subscriber information and increase user security along the way, too. The mobile industry has been paving the way for a shift to eSIM (and, eventually, to integrated SIMs or iSIMs) for a while. Does Google have a strong motivation for doing away with physical SIMs on its phones? Rahman recalls one of the company's announcements during MWC 2023 that Android would be able to transfer subscriber information to a device's eSIM slot without the need for a physical SIM card by year's end.