question re eSIM, transferring from one Samsung phone to another Samsung phone

[davehorne]

I'm just asking this for future reference.

Is this a straightforward procedure?  

[AshtabS9Ultra]

I would like to know this as well. I had an esim on an iPhone and it trasnfered it to another iPhone fine. However when my iPhone went wrong and they had to give me a replacement after they had taken mine in this is where the issue started as the new iPhone needed to text a pin number to my phone to confirm the esim which of course it couldn't because the esim had been deleted in the other phone. I know this was an iPhone case however samsung will likely be the same. Unless you have both phones at the same time it won't work. It was a pain in the backside had to travel to store fill out paper work. Never ever again until samsung literally forces me to go esim.

[Stiobhan]

Very straight forward, I removed it from my phone and vodafone sent me an email with the qr code to put on the new phone.

[AshtabS9Ultra]

So basically as long as your not on EE it will fine. Did you just phone vodafone and they sent you email straight away? My options were the ee store or wait 72 hours for a qr in the post 🤣

[Stiobhan]

I deleted it and about 15mins got the email.

[davehorne]

So as I understand it, we don't transfer the eSIM but delete it and order a new one or the provider sends us a QR copy of the one we have?  

I was hoping SmartSwitch would handle this.  Whatever happens I'll figure this out.

[davehorne]

I just now saw this ... Samsung One UI 5.1 supports device-to-device eSIM transfers - SamMobile