Boost has enabled esim via their updated app. Download the new app then select your mobile. Select transfer or restore esim.
I transfered today took 2 mins on android.
https://boost.com.au/pages/esim
https://boost.com.au/blogs/help-topics/does-boost-have-esim-…
https://boost.com.au/blogs/can-i-re-use-my-physical-sim-afte…
Why would you need to do it every month ?
All the 'free/profit' Boost Mobile Sim Card from cashback deals.
Only if you are on the whitelist (and not last long)
Wonder if we can get eSim / Activate and still use cashrewards so dont need to wait for delivery
Take it to the next level:
Lets get them do just give you straight the cashback you earn to save all those shits?
eSIM's are listed in seperate category, silly though they could save on postage
eSIMs, Recharges, $2 Prepaid SIM, Refurbished Items, Accessories, Bundles
$0
Why do every month?
Keep your primary parked as an eSIM and use physical sims you receive.
Or if you can activate as an eSIM directly with a new starter kit, keep primary parked as physical.
are you guys doing this for uber bonuses or something?
Combination of sign up bonuses and extra data
@Bdawg: Been looking for uses of a new number… last 3 boost numbers..nothing. I think the Uber eats one has gone. Maybe one of the spin offs? You Foodz?
How long can you keep a boost sim without recharging
Can you outbound from the second sim and it appears as your primary number?
Can you outbound from the second sim and it appears as your primary number?
on iOS you can have 2 sims active at a time and you can select which sim to send receive calls and messaged by default and which sim to use for data. You can ofcourse add more eSims, but as I said before only 2 active sims.
@kaleidoscope: Apparently it's only from iphone 13 and later that they can use two esim at the same time.
My Pixel 5 can only do one physical and one esim.
Apparently it's only from iphone 13 and later that they can use two esim at the same time.
Yes any 2 sims (esims or physical + esim). you can’t have physical sim + 2 esims active (total active sims should be 2 or less)
No would be the short answer.
You can call from the second SIM but the caller ID shown would be of that SIM
You can call from the second SIM but the caller ID shown would be of that SIM
It will be from the sim you call. If you call from sim A you it will A’s number If you do B it’s B’s number. If you use wifi or sim b’s data to make a wifi call from A it’ll be A’s number. (I use the latter to call Aus numbers when travelling)
@Love a bargain: This is what I thought!
The data sharing is great but you can’t really share the number!
use physical sims you receive?
Arent other physical sims for the same service are deactivated once you transfer over to esim?
How do you manage the "do you have more than 5 numbers"? while activating your sim. Can we have more than 5 numbers? Or do you close the ones previously used after the cashback is approved?
You say "no". Nobody actually cares.
The more than 5 numbers question is based on a gov requirement. They are supposed to do extra validation/identity checks if you have a lot of numbers.
In reality just say no & on the very outside chance anyone asks just say you arent using those old numbers any more. I have a lot of "active" numbers I dont use because I activate new sims for sign up bonus data then bin them.
You have to tell them the truth. Which is No.
why difficult? i thought its easier?
how does this work? using 2 sims at once and use the cash backed sim for data?
Do you know of this can be done while overseas or is it better to check with boost support?
Needs to authenticate via SMS also did it via wifi, I am not 100% sure but looks ok.
esim is not stable overseas from my experiece. was with wws prepaid esim and went to NZ for a few days. when I got back esim stopped working for no reason. had to hotspot from a friend and "download a new e-sim" to get it back on…
You just have delete your overseas esim and point everything back to your personal sim.
Thanks for your replies.. will check with support too..
You can have more than one esim installed
@spaceflight: You can install more than one but only one esim and one physical can work at one time.. or two esims I guess.. I was in thailand and when I wanted to use Telstra, with an Indian physical sim already in, I couldnt use it..Mine is a pixel 7 pro
@krishnabhargavt: P7P can support dual esim dual standby ("esim DSDS" for short in Google's vernacular) so you can use two esims at the same time on Pixel 7 or later models. The limitation though is that because atm you can only ever have 2 sims active at any time under DSDS, it means that if you have 1 esim active and 1 physical sim active and you try and download an esim, the phone thinks you're trying to activate 3 sims at the same time and then tells you to deactivate one sim before you can proceed. So you just deactivate your physical Boost sim (or which ever sim you can live without for a few mins if youre overseas and using a local sim, download the esim, activate the esim, then go into settings and select the local overseas esim and the Boost esim to be the 2 active sims you want to use. Then throw away the physical Boost sim.
@Fysh: Samsung says up to 5 esims profiles can be saved to S23 but only one active. Have you tried add a second profile?
You can install an esim while you are overseas
Is there a benefit to converting? I'm not sure there is aside from transferring to a new phone and having it migrate across via software.
I have a work Sim card, so this allows 2 Sims and I don't need to carry work phone.
Some phones are dual sim - Physical + eSim.
Someone steals your phone they cant take the sim out and place it into their own to get password reset codes (Unless you have set up a sim pin, most havnt dont this)
Is there a benefit to converting?
In case your phone stops working, you instantly know you're scrwd and there's no need to try the sim in another phone.
Is there a benefit to converting?
Less weight…
So it won’t boost my waistline?
It means less stress when checking in for flights.
Devices are starting to come out without a SIM tray (see iPhone 14 in USA, for example). We soon won't have a choice but to convert to eSIM.
Actually transferring to a new phone is much easier with a physical sim. With an esim you need to request a new esim.
Main benefit of an esim as far as I'm concerned is it frees up the physical slot for a carrier that needs a physical sim. Also allows dual sim on some phones that don't have space for 2 physical sims.
I just did an overseas trip with 4 free trial esims, which was a lot more convenient that swapping 4 physical sims around, even if you could get free ones.
Im just glad to be rid of the stupid silver sim tray tools that I always lose
Idk why more people aren't raising this. Transferring an ESIM is hell with most providers. Normally they roll out the functionality to convert a SIM to ESIM straight away, but take months to automatically request a new ESIM as needed. Don't convert your SIM until they have added this feature, or you'll have to hit up live chat every time you need a new QR code
I would disagree. In my experience most providers that offer esim are pretty good - Woolworths, Amaysim, and even Telstra all have seamless processes where you just download the app, request an eSim replacement in-app, authenticate your identity/the request in-app and then they issue you the QR code. Boost seems like they'll be similar given their FAQs page. Havent had any experience with Voda but their website seems to indicate a similar story. In my experience the only provider who's been absolute hell trying to transfer esim is Optus who require you to go to a physical store and provide 100 points of ID before they will process your request to transfer an esim.
But there's good reason for it: Australia's been seeing a rise in poorly authenticated requests for sim porting being granted i.e. when someone contacts the telco claiming to be you requesting them to transfer your number to a new sim/device because you "lost" your device and the telcos granting them too willingly. This is a major security issue because if a stranger convinces your telco to transfer your number to their own burner sim, then they will have access to all your accounts, passwords, banks etc basically anything you use that depends on SMS 2FA. So telcos like Optus making it "hell" to transfer an esim is actually them trying to ensure such incidences of scam sim swaps dont happen that often. Optus especially given their data breach fiasco.
@MrGarciaA: Lebara isn't good. Stuck on call for half an hour trying to provision the esim. They suck.
esim for the mrs, disposable physical sim for the mistress
Thank you
What’s everyone gonna do with their free time now that they’re not whinging about boost not supporting eSIM?
I kept hassling them in chat hoping the enquiry would register on their data and become a priority haha. I was nice always 5stars
Complain how they advertise full telstra coverage but there IS a differance between Telstra and Boost
Speed limit, but I had a business Sim and Telstra Sim in my old phone together and there isn't anything noticeable.
How do you mean? Other than the speed cap that they clearly mention on their cheaper plans (and Telstra also imposes on their cheaper plans)
I agree there is a noticeable difference as I moved from Telstra to Boost. I can feel that, I do not get data where I used to get with Telstra.
Can that be demonstrated? Because Boost always claims that, coverage-wise, they are exactly the same as Telstra.
If it is different in terms of coverage, there'd be a case of false advertising to answer…
I'm not sure about whether it can be demonstrated, but as far as i remember from my time working at Telstra the backend systems which handle the account and network coding are all the same. The only differences should be speed caps which are applied to Telstra plans too.
I’ve brought this up on Ozbargain multiple times. It’s a real issue and 100% false advertising.
It would be very easy to run an experiment and check this. Same phone, same location & test each SIM card. Video the experiment and post on YouTube.
Complaining about SOMETHING WENT WRONG!
Whine about no cashback for esims.
Complain about EXYNOS
I only have a "Buy a prepaid plan on eSIM" option on my Boost app
Try updating the app, mine only had that option prior to the update
You need your service to show, if your service isn't showing fix that first .
It shows my 140GB Boost Mobile Prepaid Service and I just updated the app.
Click that service, scroll down
I recommend keeping your physical sim as your main sim - so you can keep the esim slot free to use while travelling and effectively dual sim.
VERY useful to keep getting those sms one time code while overseas - OR bank smses "did you perform this overseas transaction" type texts
You can have more than one esim
i think there's a limit to how many can be active at one time - depends on the phone. pixel 8 pro seems to be 2 esims at the same time so yeah i guess that'll work too
If you have an iPhone 12, you can only have 1 active eSIM and 1 physical.
From iPhone 13, you can have 2 active eSIMs at the same time.
You can have more than one esim, I think 2 is the limit
Depends on phone.
Generally 2 active at a time but my phone allows at least 8 esim profiles to be installed
I am still using iPhone XS Max and from my recent trip to the UK and EU - I have ended up having six eSim profiles. So all together I have 1 x personal physical sim (Boost), 1 x Work eSim, 6 x other eSims. The “Add eSim” option is still enabled and allows to add another eSim.
It allows only one active eSim at a time but still very convenient to be able to switch between eSims.
Love this eSim feature.
@nuts: Not bad. Haven’t noticed any decline, may be because I only have 2 x active SIMs at a time (this is the limit). I am a heavy user, having this phone for 4+ years, the battery still holds really good power. It says 78% in battery health but might be pre-configured number by Apple, real battery health must be more or less than that.
@CrazyBargainer: Nice, yeah, I took my 12 overseas last year with an esim and a normal sim and the battery was pretty terrible. Maybe it was just my phone though, appreciate your response. Thanks!
I do it the other way around - regular phone number (Woolies) as E-sim. Any travel sims go in the slot.
This. This is the way!
regular phone number (Woolies) as E-sim
You break your phone, but you have a backup phone.
2 scenarios backup phone has esim, and backup phone does not have esim.
could you explain the process if you want to use backup phone with Woolies e-sim number?
Good question. I had to google to find out. Apparently you can restore or replace by contacting the phone company. That'd be difficult from OS.
Buy a new phonoe, download the woolies app, request an esim replacement. Follow the instructions. This has happened to a friend of mine when we were travelling together. Her iphone got lost/stolen with an esim, so we right away bought an unlocked Pixel 5 locally, downloaded the amaysim app and she got her esim main number ported over onto her Pixel 5 within 15 minutes. Dunno what happened to her travel sim which was physical.
Benefits of having your main number be esim is that if your device is lost/stolen, the thieves/strangers theoretically cant access your number because of device biometrics. Which means that the thieves cant get access to all the apps/companies/banks you use that use SMS 2FA. If your main number was physical, the hackers can just slot your main sim into their own device and suddenly all your OTPs to "Forgot my password" or "Verify your identify" are accessible.
Only downside to this is you're essentially beholden to your telco's processes and procedures on how to request a new esim/esim replacement. Most are pretty good like amaysim/woolies/telstra that allow you to request this very straightfowardly via their app and authenticate in app, whereas others like Optus are horse dung (from personal experience) where they require you to go in store and provide 100 points of ID before they can process a new esim request for you.
Any travel sims go in the slot.
Why?
That's much harder as travel esims are very easy to obtain and have installed
Travel E-sims are too expensive. I go for months and use a lot of data so use normal sims (I also can put them in my 5G modem in the motorhome).
I found the opposite to be more useful as some countries don't have carriers that support eSIM.
For iphone users, iphone 13 or later support 2 active esims
https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT209044
And if you have a HK or CN purchased phone, it supports 0 esims :)
(but two physical sims)
Actually it's the other way around.
Much easier in just about every country to get a physical SIM vs eSIM. In some countries they don't give eSIM's to prepaid customers.
My advice is to keep the physical slot free when travelling.
I actually have been using exclusively esim while travelling for a few years now without any issues. Never had to bother getting physical Sims or activation or whatever.
I don't agree with using physical Sim for travels. Lots of travel esims
Great news but would be difficult for me to this every month.