iPhone 14 won’t have a SIM card slot

For Apple, to cut off the SIM card tray on the iPhone seems to be determined to continue.

According to foreign media reports, an anonymous person said that Apple has told US operators that it will launch a pure electronic SIM card model in September 2022, a year earlier than previous rumors. The whistleblower also provided the publication with a “seemingly legal document” outlining the timetable for the launch of the plan, although the document did not specifically mention the iPhone or Apple at all.

It is said that the plan will involve some operators starting in the second quarter of 2022 to provide iPhone 13 without nano SIM in the box. If this is correct, then in theory Apple will do the same with the “iPhone 14”.

The leaker @Dylandkt posted on Twitter on Monday that he “agrees with the recent rumors about the removal of the physical SIM card tray”, again adding evidence to the rumors. The leaker also reposted a February 14 post in which a claimed source alleged that Apple wanted to remove the tray more quickly and was testing an iPhone with only eSIM.

Given that the iPhone sold by Apple in China has a tray that can hold two SIM cards, and the continued international demand for this model, it seems unlikely that Apple will cancel the SIM tray anytime soon. Although many operators provide eSIM services, Apple is likely to still produce models with SIM card trays, as well as the so-called pure eSIM version.