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iPhone 12: eSIM and physical SIM
Can this phone use two lines, keep a home number while you travel, and take a physical SIM? What follows is copied from the maker’s pages. Where a page does not say, this page says unknown.
Model id on file A2403source
Configuration in the sources below
Dual-SIM mode. One physical nano-SIM and one eSIM.
Both lines active. Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS). Apple’s Dual SIM article says both lines can make and receive calls, and that the iPhone uses one cellular data network at a time.
Nano-SIM and eSIM
Apple’s SIM article lists the iPhone 12 with an eSIM and a nano-SIM. It does not list a United States eSIM-only version of this model. In mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, Apple says some iPhones use two nano-SIMs and that eSIM support differs. We do not state a tray count for a unit bought there.
What this means in Greece and the EU
- On the configuration above, a physical nano-SIM can stay in the tray — a Cosmote, Vodafone or Nova number, for example — while a second line is an eSIM. Whether that carrier will install an eSIM, and whether a travel plan downloads, is not checked here.
- Apple’s Dual SIM article says the carrier has to support eSIM, and that using two carriers needs an unlocked iPhone or both plans from the same carrier. We do not check a Greek or other EU carrier.
- Carrier lock, VoLTE, and whether an eSIM profile downloads are out of scope here. This page is not a travel-eSIM shop.
How this page is made
- Tray count, eSIM and dual-SIM mode come from a hand-checked maker page, with the https address and the date we read it. We do not use a spec-site scrape.
- A blank in that file stays unknown. We do not turn a missing tray count into zero, and we do not turn a missing eSIM line into no.
- DSDS or DSDA is written only when the maker names it. Otherwise the page says two lines can be configured and that active behaviour depends on the software and the carrier.
- A regional difference is written only when the maker’s pages say the hardware differs, or when we have read only one spec and have not compared other model codes.
Still open: maker pages for the rest of the catalogue, and a sign-off before this preview is indexed. Carrier lock, VoLTE and eSIM download stay out of scope.
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