iOS 26 Adds Support for Transferring an eSIM to and From Android

With iOS 26, Apple is adding enactment for transferring an eSIM from an iPhone to an Android device, and vice versa. The caller functionality volition marque it easier for smartphone users to determination their numbers betwixt platforms, alleviating the request to interaction a bearer for assistance with a modulation betwixt ‌iPhone‌ and Android.


Some ‌iOS 26‌ users have noticed a "Transfer to Android" enactment successful their cellular settings, though it is not an enactment for each plans astatine the existent time. On Reddit, an ‌iPhone‌ idiosyncratic with US Mobile's Dark Star eSIM recovered a cellular enactment to transportation an eSIM to an Android device.

When adding an eSIM successful ‌iOS 26‌, there's besides a "Transfer From Android" option. Tapping connected it provides a QR codification that tin beryllium scanned with an Android instrumentality to commencement the transportation process, and that's besides however the ‌iPhone‌ to Android transportation process works.

Apple appears to person implemented the caller functionality alongside Google. Prior to erstwhile ‌iOS 26‌ debuted, an Android 16 beta featured a notation to a "Transfer to Android" diagnostic that hinted astatine the caller cross-platform transferring options.

In iOS 18, it is elemental to transportation an eSIM from ‌iPhone‌ to ‌iPhone‌, but it is not casual to transportation an eSIM from an ‌iPhone‌ to an Android device. It typically requires contacting a bearer to get a QR code, arsenic determination is nary automated mode to marque the transition. With ‌iOS 26‌, galore ‌iPhone‌ users who privation to determination to Android should person an easier clip doing so.
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