{"id":111057,"date":"2025-09-03T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111057\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:16:07","slug":"physical-sim-slot-to-be-removed-from-just-one-iphone-17-device-in-europe-new-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111057\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical SIM slot to be removed from just one iPhone 17 device in Europe, new report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a report came out saying Apple store employees in the EU are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_store_employees_in_the_eu_are_getting_esim_training_iphone_17_may_remove_physical_slot-news-69300.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">getting eSIM training<\/a> right before the company is set to unveil the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/res.php3?sSearch=iphone+17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17 family<\/a>, and that has led to a lot of speculation that Apple would be removing physical SIM slots from some of the four of the family&#8217;s members.<\/p>\n<p>Today there&#8217;s a new report, this time from Greece (again inside the EU). This one claims it&#8217;s just the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_17_air-13502.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17 Air<\/a> not having a physical slot, and it&#8217;s what the aforementioned training is all about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756887367_394_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Physical SIM slot to be removed from just one iPhone 17 device in Europe, new report says\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The reason is easy to imagine &#8211; due to how thin the phone is, there just wasn&#8217;t any room left for a physical SIM slot in the iPhone 17 Air, and that&#8217;s why Apple chose not to have one and will rely on eSIM only for this model. Presumably that will happen worldwide, if this is truly Apple&#8217;s reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>That is, of course, if this report is accurate. Luckily, we don&#8217;t have much more to wait in order to find out &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_officially_announced_iphone_17_unveiling_date-news-69221.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple is officially unveiling<\/a> the iPhone 17 devices on September 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techmaniacs.gr\/apokleistiko-iphone-17-series-mia-apo-tis-syskeyes-toy-tha-erthei-choris-fysiki-sim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a> (in Greek)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday a report came out saying Apple store employees in the EU are getting eSIM training right before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-111057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}