eSim vs physical sim

Join Date: Jul 2021

Location: Patna

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Hello experts, these days the telephone theft/snatching is precise common. In my household successful a span of 2 months, 3 phones person been stolen. We extremity up successful spending important magnitude of clip to telephone the lawsuit attraction for each the banks and web providers. In 1 case, the thief was mode excessively astute to bargain adjacent 1 lakh from ICICI and SBI bank.
Please counsel however we tin minimize the hazard in-case telephone is stolen. My archetypal purpose is to safeguard the slope accounts and UPI. Once the telephone is stolen, you cannot bash anything.
I americium utilizing S22 Ultra and enabled the find my instrumentality work by google.

Please counsel what are the vantage and disadvantage of eSim. I americium readying to usage the eSim truthful that erstwhile the telephone is stolen nary 1 tin usage my sim to different instrumentality to make immoderate OTP.

Join Date: Aug 2020

Location: KA20 (Karkala)

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Didn't the stolen phones person surface locks enabled? While you tin instrumentality the eSIM way and it would support you to an extent, a akin level of extortion tin besides beryllium enabled by turning connected the SIM fastener i.e., by mounting a PIN for the SIM.

Remember that with eSIM, it could beryllium a hassle to power devices (especially if your backup instrumentality does not person an eSIM feature) if your telephone dies connected a weekend.

Join Date: Jul 2021

Location: Patna

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Good advise, I americium ever reluctant to usage SIM lock. Can we acceptable PIN of our choice, I ever get confused with PUK fig etc.
I conscionable tried to alteration Lock SIM paper but it is asking existent SIM PIN, delight fto maine cognize however tin I get it oregon bash I request to sojourn JIO store?

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Join Date: Aug 2020

Location: KA20 (Karkala)

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Yes, you tin acceptable a PIN of your choice. Even I kept procrastinating till contiguous and conscionable enabled it connected my Jio number. The default 1 was 1234.

To beryllium safe, you could support the PUK handy. It tin beryllium recovered connected "MyJio" by going to Settings > Service Settings > PUK.