Google May Soon Make eSIM Profile Transfer Easier for Android Users

Google is reportedly engaged on a system for changing bodily SIM playing cards into eSIMs. This may additionally enable customers to simply switch an current eSIM from an previous system to a brand new one. Google has simply begun to distribute its Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2 launch, offering Pixel followers with a preview of what all updates might come within the March Function Drop. This newest model comprises code that signifies the main quality-of-life advances for Android’s eSIM expertise, along with 31 new emojis and a characteristic that lets you force-theme icons on your house display screen.

In keeping with a thread of tweets by tipster Mishaal Rahman, Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2 introduces a brand new system property referred to as ‘euicc.seamless switch enabled in non qs’. This hints on the upcoming characteristic by means of which customers will more than likely have the ability to switch an eSIM profile from an previous Android cellphone to a brand new cellphone. Customers might also be able to changing a bodily SIM card from an previous cellphone into an eSIM profile from a brand new cellphone.

Android presently doesn’t enable customers to switch eSIM profile from one cellphone to a different. To take action, the customers have to deactivate their previous cellphone’s eSIM profile and activate it on the brand new system. The method is rigorous and customers might have to strategy the provider to activate the eSIM on the brand new cellphone.

iOS, alternatively, features a built-in Fast Switch characteristic that enables customers to switch bodily or eSIMs from an previous iPhone to a brand new mannequin with out contacting the provider. Google is reportedly making an attempt to convey comparable capabilities to Android.

The tweets additionally add that Google is incorporating the characteristic into the SIM Supervisor app on its Pixel telephones, in addition to a variety of telephones that come pre-loaded with Google Cellular Providers. Nevertheless, full compatibility data isn’t accessible but.

Transferring eSIMs between gadgets isn’t a local characteristic of the eSIM configuration, the tweets add. Which means that Google might not have the ability to make this characteristic accessible to all Android gadgets by means of using AOSP, and should as an alternative be required to restrict it to Pixel telephones on the preliminary stage. Transferring eSIMs could also be restricted to transferring from one Pixel to a different or manufacturing facility resetting the identical system. Changing bodily SIM profiles to eSIM is more likely to be carrier-dependent.