Along with Touch ID and a gold model, Apple introduced a radical new feature with the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3. A new type of SIM card that isn’t restricted to just the one network. Instead you pick ...

You may need to perform some extra legwork to connect an earlier iPad to cell networks. MacRumors has learned the company stopped activations for the Apple SIM in certain iPads as of October 1st. If ...

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Apple on Tuesday announced the new iPad Air and iPad Pro, and an interesting detail about both of them is that their respective Cellular versions are eSIM only, which means that they no longer have a ...

Owners of cellular iPads are no longer able to use a supplied Apple SIM to activate a data plan for their tablet, forcing users to either use a different physical SIM or move to eSIM. Apple included ...

Let's not delude ourselves here: Apple's iPad event was spectacularly dull. There was one interesting feature of the new iPads -- but it was relegated to a page on the Apple website, rather than shown ...

Apple several years back introduced something great for the iPad called the "Apple SIM," which lets you pick a wireless provider from a menu in the Settings app of the iPad, without ever having to ...