Really? I wonder when that was cuz I’ve never seen them sold for the same price. It’s always been at or around $50-$100 difference for the phones I’ve gotten from a 6 till now.

Oh yeah that looks like the right way to do it. I didn’t know how to go from physical to esim. If you’ve paid for the phone in full & apple doesn’t bait you into buying a locked one - it won’t lock. That’s only with a payment plan.

Oh nice! I don’t have an unlocked one so I wasn’t sure if you could still get them like that or not (had assumed physical sims allowed unlocking.) Was it hard to go from sim to esim? Or was the process pretty easy?

When you purchase one make sure to specify that it’s not attached to a carrier/don’t answer or provide any info about your current carrier because they’ll try to get you to buy one that’s locked - they’ll advertise deals and everything but just ignore them 😂 they did that to me when I bought a MacBook trying to upsell me. Idk why tho cuz they don’t even get commission.

This answered my question on a few other comments - I wasn’t sure if you could buy esims unlocked or not because I thought the SIM card was what kept them from being locked (wasn’t sure about ease of esim transfer - or sim to esim if you were going from a physical sim model to an esim only model)

Don’t activate it with a carrier lol. They can sell you one without it activated and then you do it yourself.

Do you know if the 14 esim models can be purchased unlocked? I have a locked one so I’m not sure how esims work with being unlocked - my guess is OP is looking at getting a 14? The 13 was the last one with a SIM card tray unless you buy an EU model of the 14.

Yeah I’d still disregard what apple employees have said when real people in this subreddit are telling you that they got their phones unlocked.

The rep you’re talking do doesn’t know what they’re talking about sorry.

I’ve always bought unlocked phones from apple. The ONLY possible answer I can think of is that ever since apple switched to esim only, they may not sell unlocked phones anymore since they don’t have SIM trays. The whole reason they were able to sell unlocked phones was due to the SIM card tray. But that would be a very recent thing like as of the iPhone 14 model because 13s had SIM card trays (I have an unlocked 13 from the Apple Store and just stuck my SIM from my 12 into it)

I wouldn’t know because I got a 14 on a payment plan (locked to Verizon) because it ended up being cheaper with all the plan-specific discounts. My phone only ends up costing me $200 because it’s $5 monthly for 36 months 😅 vs $1,200 upfront for the same configuration. Maybe someone in the thread has an unlocked 14?

I’ve always paid slightly higher for unlocked phones. I’ve never noticed them being the same cost because you’re paying to essentially be able to put any old SIM card into your phone and “own it” instead of “lease” it from them.

You can just buy a phone that isn’t attached to a carrier. And then put a sim card or esim associated with the phone.

Salespeople confuse new buyers by making it sound like this is the only way to buy a phone but it isn’t lol. You can buy a phone - for a thousand or so dollars anywhere & then connect your service to it and it’s yours entirely no strings attached. The only time it’s attached to a plan where “unlocking” is necessary is when you have a payment plan with them.

I’m more interested in the lamp - is that a tree branch with a wire going through (?) it??? I love that & your moss wall!

Honestly it’s gotten so much better than when it was first introduced. Initially it needed a lot of direct light on the unlocker’s face, now it can do it in nearly no light/little to no light other than my phone screen’s dim glow.

It’s also pretty snappy with unlocking my phone, logging into things, entering passwords etc.

Honestly this may happen before physical RealID is required 😂

I’ve heard the non Apple ones get really hot and heat affects the battery life over time. I’ve also seen reviews of it not fully charging the way it says it does. So far Apple is the best.

Oh really? I didn’t know about the shortcuts not working cuz I was gonna suggest having like @@ be a shortcut 😓

Weird - that's how mine is set up & that's what I get as my suggested emails. I usually get both as a suggestion 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm not entirely sure but my guess would be that frequently visited websites can detect a pattern maybe? For the email that may be more commonly used on its domains and suggest similar? Not really sure tbh.

It’s whatever is listed first in your own contact card:

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Looks similar to the Grid displays so idk if you could sell them without walking on that territory (lots of tech YouTubers peddle the brand) - nice job tho!

It’s not simping lol it’s facts. You said you don’t know why they didn’t switch sooner and I’m telling you it’s cuz of business and profit 😅

Have you even met the US? It’s a crazy over-consumption market.

They know their market & things that make people mass switch for their new stuff. Maybe someone with an 8 has been holding off to upgrade but will upgrade to a 15 be where of usbc, along with the audience that already upgrades every year or every other year. By staggering out features with an already dedicated customer base, they maintain growth & attract new customers who switch because “Apple adapted xyz feature that was keeping me away from their devices”.

It’s about audience churning for the business and so far they’ve been keeping a steady growth. Also how would usbc help the environment? Is it more eco friendly or something? (If so, I’m unaware of that)

Everyone with androids wants like an award or something for having a phone that already had usbc but the thing is - whenever Apple does something it makes bigger news. Samsung has a keynote but it’s not nearly as popular as apples.

It must have something to do with a combination of your location (background location services/gps + the date/time settings for your phone) and whatever energy grid info it can pull to make an educated guess for electricity in your area 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not sure entirely how it works but that’s my guess 😅

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I’m also running 16.3.1 in SEA - maybe it’s location based?

iPhone 15 should have usbc coming to it in sept btw