I tried VOIP on my iPhone. It didn’t work out very well. Poor customer service and problems explaining to everyone that they had to use my email address instead of my phone number to FaceTime and message me.
So now I’m going to put 2 phone numbers on my iPhone using 2 eSIMs (one with my old number from my previous province and one with an area code in my present province). No data plan. Just 2 prepaid phone numbers.
In my iPhone settings, under Default Voice Line, I can only select one carrier at a time. Does that mean I’ll have to change that setting every time I want to use the phone number from the other carrier? Or will the iPhone just automatically switch between the two lines when I make and receive calls?
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I haven’t used dual SIM on the iPhone, but on Android both were active and when you dialed a number, it used the default line, unless you overrode it and selected the other line in the dialer.
On Android, you could also link contacts to one of the two numbers. For contacts with no affinity, when you dialed it used the default number as the outgoing line.
iOS handles multiple lines pretty elegantly now. In your primary/secondary line settings, you can specify which should be active for voice or data, and then every time you message or call someone, the line you use will be shown so you can easily switch. It’s quite neat.
