Yesterday a report came out saying Apple store employees in the EU are getting eSIM training right before the company is set to unveil the iPhone 17 family, and that has led to a lot of speculation that Apple would be removing physical SIM slots from some of the four of the family’s members.
Today there’s a new report, this time from Greece (again inside the EU). This one claims it’s just the iPhone 17 Air not having a physical slot, and it’s what the aforementioned training is all about.
The reason is easy to imagine – due to how thin the phone is, there just wasn’t any room left for a physical SIM slot in the iPhone 17 Air, and that’s why Apple chose not to have one and will rely on eSIM only for this model. Presumably that will happen worldwide, if this is truly Apple’s reasoning.
That is, of course, if this report is accurate. Luckily, we don’t have much more to wait in order to find out – Apple is officially unveiling the iPhone 17 devices on September 9.
Source (in Greek)