This week, Apple said its new iPhone 14 devices will no longer use physical SIM cards to activate cellular voice and data service. Instead, users will turn to eSIM.

SIM cards are still very popular in 2024, but thanks to eSIMs and the proliferation of Wi-Fi, a physical SIM card is no longer as necessary as it once was. JUMP TO KEY SECTIONS What is a SIM card?

However, this kind of SIM card is reprogrammable so you can swap it around from network to network, and can't be physically damaged since there's no plastic card or moving piece to break.