Swap Esims between two phones back and forth

[Mark_Bags]

Hi, is it possible to swap an Esim between two phones.

After being pickpocketed on holiday, I choose to take out a cheaper handset at night.

Hence the need to swap an Esim between handsets when I need to?

[Enlli]

Surely there must be a way of getting a SIM into the phone in the first place?

[MI5]

The phone has a normal sim tray but the problem occurs when you fit the supplied front cover to the phone.

It has a sticky backing to fix it to the screen and covers the sim tray, so removal is difficult and can pull off the factory fitted screen protector.

[Oxonian]

I am not sure @Mark_Bags that what you are proposing is a viable long-term proposition. If you intend routinely swapping your SIM between two handsets, that sound like a recipe for breaking one or other 'phone, damaging the SIM or losing the SIM. 

Depending on how much you use your cheaper handset when you are out at night, I would have thought that looking at cheap PAYG SIMs might be preferable. 👍  

[MI5]

I imagine that would be far too confusing for friends to know which number to contact them on.

[pgn]

O2 have a feature accessible from MyO2 now known as "Call Divert" - just means @Mark_Bags would have to remember to take off the divert when they come back home after a night out on the town... and set it up a couple of hours before leaving the house, naturally. A cheap and cheerful O2 PAYG SIM would do - mind you, for calls made back to friends and family while out on the tiles, there *would* be a new number appearing on the called handset.

[MI5]

I'm not aware that you can divert to and from a PAYG sim?

Not only that, but message threads would be disjointed and WhatsApp messages could not be diverted.

Having two different numbers is no more a solution than swapping sims.

If the risk or perceived risk of losing the phone is high, take out a good insurance policy and take steps to protect the phone like everyone else does.

[pgn]

Divert would be from good (contract) phone to roustabout PAYG,

but yes, keeping one's wits about one is always the best approach.