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Apple store employees in the EU are getting eSIM training, iPhone 17 may remove physical slot
The move might expand to all but a few countries. In the US, ever since the iPhone 14 family, Apple's smartphones have lacked a physical SIM card slot,...
According to "a source familiar with the matter", retail employees at Apple Authorized Resellers across the EU are required to complete a training course related to iPhones with eSIM support by September 5. This will be just a memory if the rumors are correct So this could very well mean that Apple has removed the physical SIM card slot from the iPhone 17 models that will be sold in the EU as well, hence the need to train retail employees to deal with eSIM activations. That sort of move has already been rumored for the iPhone 17 Air, due to its extreme slimness, but it might also apply to the rest of the family, with some specific exceptions, perhaps, like China.
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