When you use an iPad that comes with both Wi-Fi and cellular options for browsing the web, your device will have a removable Subscriber Identity Module, usually referred to as SIM cards. According ...

If you’ve bought an iPad with 4G/cellular capabilities (we discuss whether that’s a good idea in our 2015 iPad buying guide) or a new iPhone, you need to buy and install a SIM card.Here, we ...

In the United States, the only major carriers that use SIM cards are GSM-type carriers AT&T and T-Mobile. AT&T is the only GSM carrier that sells the iPad as of early 2013.

So much for a universal Apple SIM. AT&T and T-Mobile both lock down new iPad SIM cards in their stores. The difference is a T-Mobile iPad purchased at an Apple store will remain open.

A member of the media displays an Apple Inc. iPad Mini 3, left, and iPad Air 2 for a photograph after a product announcement in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014.

Both the M4 iPad Pro and the iPad Air 6 have removed the physical SIM slot entirely. Gone are the days of physical SIMs, as all cellular models now support eSIM only.

[Aaron Nelson] tipped us off about a simple hack to use an iPad SIM with an iPhone. You won’t be able to use the iPhone as a phone, but the relatively cheap $29.99 for unlimited Internet was … ...

The decision to use an unusually small SIM card in the iPad means current iPhone customers can’t just use their iPhone’s SIM in an iPad, as we reported last week. It appears increasingly ...

An update to an Apple support page spotted by MacRumors explains that from October 1, 2022, "Apple SIM technology will no longer be available for activating new cellular data plans on iPad." ...

Apple’s new iPad SIM enables you to quickly swap between networks. With the new iPad SIM you can choose a new network for your iPad without changing the SIM card. Here’s how it works.