iPhone 14 SIM not supported? Don't try to fix it yourself - iMore

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If you’re the would-be blessed caller proprietor of an iPhone 14 being plagued by a “SIM Not supported” connection connected your caller smartphone, you’re not alone. A caller memo sees Apple acknowledging that an iOS 16 bug is causing issues with SIM cards and cellular data.

As archetypal revealed by MacRumors (opens successful caller tab), a memo shared by Apple states that the mistake connection is being shown to immoderate users of iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Plus, and iPhone 14 Pro Max handsets. The handset tin past frost aft displaying the message.

And truthful acold astatine least, there’s nary casual hole for the bug. While Apple believes it’s a bundle contented alternatively than a hardware one, it’s advising users not to instrumentality immoderate drastic enactment of their ain connected their devices. If the contented does not resoluteness itself aft a fewer minutes, Apple is asking users not to effort to reconstruct the devices themselves, but alternatively to instrumentality the telephone to an Apple Store to talk with an adept oregon an authorized work provider.

Apple is inactive “investigating” the issue, according to MacRumors.

eSIMs and bugs

Though it’s been a comparatively creaseless motorboat for the iPhone 14 line-up, it’s not been a cleanable one.

The iPhone 14 Pro launched with a unusual contented causing camera vibrations successful immoderate third-party apps similar TikTok and Twitter, a deficiency of telephone and app notifications was reported, immoderate users were suffering from debased microphone measurement done CarPlay, portion others seemed to beryllium experiencing faster than expected artillery drain. The iOS 16.0.3 release patched implicit astir of these issues, but this latest SIM occupation seems to person slipped the net. Apple is expected to motorboat a much implicit iOS 16 update, iOS 16.1, successful the coming weeks, which volition hopefully code the SIM error.

As for the iPhone 14 line-up itself, it’s been Apple’s archetypal large propulsion into eSIM, a determination distant from carnal SIM cards to integer ones instead, activated connected the instrumentality itself with a web provider. Using eSIM tech a idiosyncratic tin support arsenic galore arsenic 8 SIMs connected a instrumentality astatine once, with 2 abstracted telephone numbers astatine the aforesaid time. However, immoderate people, peculiarly predominant travelers, person argued this tin origin issues erstwhile rapidly changing SIMs for section networks erstwhile abroad.

Gerald Lynch is the Editor-in-Chief of iMore, keeping cautious ticker implicit the site's editorial output and commercialized campaigns, ensuring iMore delivers the in-depth, close and timely Apple contented its readership deservedly expects. You'll ne'er spot him without his iPad Pro, and helium loves gaming sessions with his buddies via Apple Arcade connected his iPhone 13 Pro, but don't expect him to play with you astatine location unless your Apple TV is hooked up to a 4K HDR surface and a 7.1 situation system.

Living successful London successful the UK, Gerald was antecedently Editor of Gizmodo UK, and Executive Editor of TechRadar, and has covered planetary commercialized shows including Apple's WWDC, MWC, CES and IFA. If it has an acronym and an app, he's astir apt been there, connected the beforehand lines reporting connected the latest tech innovations. Gerald is besides a contributing tech pundit for BBC Radio and has written for assorted different publications, including T3 magazine, GamesRadar, Space.com, Real Homes, MacFormat, euphony book DIY, Tech Digest, TopTenReviews, Mirror.co.uk, Brandish, Kotaku, Shiny Shiny and Lifehacker. Gerald is besides the writer of 'Get Technology: Upgrade Your Future', published by Aurum Press, and besides holds a Guinness satellite grounds connected Tetris. For real.

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