No problem, glad I could help!

Yes, you can. The best way of thinking about using an eSIM it is that it’s like using the Wi-Fi at your hotel: it just gives you a cheap way of connecting your phone to the internet while you’re overseas. Your apps don’t care how they connect, they just need to be able to do it somehow. As long as they can get to the server they usually use, everything works as normal.

There are a few exceptions to that comment, for things like Netflix or whatever that restrict the content you can view based on where you are in the world, but that’s not an eSIM issue, just a geographic one that you’d likely also have if you were roaming or using Wi-Fi.

That’s helpful thank you. Can I ask one more question? With an e sim can I still access all my apps including my paid subscriptions to newspapers?

Roaming is still the most seamless option, since you don’t have to buy or enable anything new, and you keep your usual number. It’s just that it often costs a fortune, especially for data.

Whether you’re better off with your usual number or a local number probably depends on who you want to be called by, people from home or e.g. taxi drivers and local restaurants who likely won’t call an international number.

That Apple is dropping the physical SIM tray in their new phones is a problem for me, I’ll be hanging onto my old SE for as long as I can, or buying a Euro spec iphone that still has the SIM tray.

I am surprised that these flaws are not more widely written about.

Thanks, updated the text. They still aren’t offering it for prepaid/PAYG customers, so it’s not useful for inbound travelers, but they’re hardly unique in that regard!