{"id":750,"date":"2025-05-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:15:45","slug":"feature-request-apple-should-offer-instant-access-to-overseas-esims-when-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/feature-request-apple-should-offer-instant-access-to-overseas-esims-when-traveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Request: Apple should offer instant access to overseas eSIMs when traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Apple-should-offer-instant-access-to-overseas-eSIMs-when-traveling.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing likely to put the damper on any overseas trip, it\u2019s racking up a huge data roaming bill on your <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPhone<\/a>. I once managed to notch up a bill of about $40 in the 15 minutes between switching on my phone after the plane landed and organizing a local data plan while inside the airport terminal.<\/p>\n<p>These days, I have a simple solution to instantly acquiring a local eSIM at a competitive price, but using this on <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/04\/18\/a-macbook-air-experiment-proved-successful-on-a-recent-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent trip<\/a> made me think how sensible it would be for <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> to make this a standard iPhone feature \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"feature-request,iphone\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"999499\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/05\/02\/feature-request-apple-should-offer-instant-access-to-overseas-esims-when-traveling\/#more-999499\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one thing likely to put the damper on any overseas trip, it\u2019s racking up a huge data roaming bill on your iPhone. I <a href=\"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/feature-request-apple-should-offer-instant-access-to-overseas-esims-when-traveling\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valentinedaysgifts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}