Remove or switch the SIM card in your iPhone

Learn how to remove or transfer the SIM carte in your iPhone.

Find your model below to locate the SIM tray. To pop open the SIM tray, insert a paper clip or a SIM-eject tool into the hole beside the tray. Push in, towards the iPhone, but don't force it. If yous're having difficulty ejecting the SIM tray, take your device to your network provider or an Apple Shop for help.

Later you remove your SIM card from the tray, notice the notch in one corner of the new SIM card. Place the new SIM card into the tray – it volition fit just one style, because of the notch. Then insert the tray into the device completely and in the same orientation that you lot removed it. The tray also fits only 1 way.

Find the SIM tray on the left side:

  • iPhone 13 Pro
  • iPhone 13 Pro Max
  • iPhone 13
  • iPhone xiii mini
  • iPhone 12
  • iPhone 12 mini
  • iPhone 12 Pro
  • iPhone 12 Pro Max

In China mainland, the SIM tray on iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone thirteen, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max tin can concord two nano-SIM cards.

Find the SIM tray on the right side:

  • iPhone eleven Pro
  • iPhone 11 Pro Max
  • iPhone eleven
  • iPhone XS
  • iPhone XS Max
  • iPhone XR
  • iPhone X

In China mainland, the SIM tray on iPhone 11, iPhone XR, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max tin hold two nano-SIM cards.

Notice the SIM tray on the right side:

  • iPhone SE (2d generation)
  • iPhone 8 Plus
  • iPhone 8
  • iPhone vii Plus
  • iPhone vii
  • iPhone 6s Plus
  • iPhone 6s
  • iPhone 6 Plus
  • iPhone half dozen
  • iPhone SE (1st generation)
  • iPhone 5s
  • iPhone 5c
  • iPhone 5
  • iPhone 4s
  • iPhone four (GSM model)

Find the SIM tray on the top:

  • iPhone 3GS
  • iPhone 3G
  • Original iPhone

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