Remove or switch the SIM card in your iPhone

Find out how to remove or transfer the SIM card in your iPhone.

If you purchased an iPhone 14 model or later in the United States, your iPhone doesn’t have a SIM tray. Find out how to set up an eSIM instead.

Find your model below to locate the SIM tray. To pop open the SIM tray, insert a paper clip or a SIM-eject tool into the hole beside the tray. Push in, towards your iPhone, but don’t force it. If you're having difficulty ejecting the SIM tray, take your device to your network provider or an Apple Store for help.

After you’ve removed your SIM card from the tray, look for the notch in one corner of the new SIM card. Place the new SIM card into the tray – it will only fit one way because of the notch. Then insert the tray into the device completely and in the same orientation that you removed it. The tray also only fits one way.

Find the SIM tray on the left-hand side:

In China mainland, the SIM tray on iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max can hold two nano-SIM cards.

Find the SIM tray on the right-hand side:

• iPhone 11 Pro

• iPhone 11 Pro Max

• iPhone 11

• iPhone XS

• iPhone XS Max

• iPhone XR

• iPhone X

In China mainland, the SIM tray on iPhone 11, iPhone XR, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max models can hold two nano-SIM cards.

Find the SIM tray on the right-hand side:

Find the SIM tray on the top:

• iPhone 3GS

• iPhone 3G

• Original iPhone

Learn more

• Find out how to remove or switch the SIM card in your iPad.

• Find out how to import contacts from your SIM card to your iPhone.

• Because your Voicemail messages may not be available after you’ve swapped a SIM card, find out how to share your Voicemail messages to another device.

• Find out which SIM card your device is using.