Soon It Will Be Easier To Swap Between SIMs on Android
pcmag.comSoon it might be even easier for you to swap between two active SIMs in your Android phone.
Currently, many Android devices offer the ability to have multiple SIMs installed at the same time, either physical SIM cards or a combination of traditional and digital cards. Swapping between them isn’t a tremendous challenge, but it does take a bit of effort. To swap, you need to open the Settings app on your phone go to Network and Internet settings, and then select your SIM preference for mobile data or calls.
Several Android users have complained to Google about the number of steps required to make the change and have asked for the feature to instead be handled through Quick Settings, and now it sounds like that’s going to happen, 9to5Google reports.
Google confirmed via a Support page this week that it plans to make SIM swapping a Quick Setting option in a future build on Android, although it didn’t specify when. The request was initially made on the page by a user in 2022.
While we don’t know exactly when we’ll see it, the Android 14 QPR beta would be our first real option for it to happen. That’s expected to happen in December.
In the meantime, if SIM swapping is a pain point for you as well, there’s an app in the Google Play Store that can make it happen for you now.
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