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title: "How to Delete an eSIM from an iPhone"
description: "If you no longer need your travel eSIM, you can remove it from your iPhone in just a few steps."
url: https://help.wonderconnect.com/en/articles/29-how-to-delete-an-esim-from-an-iphone
collection: "Post-travel eSIM management"
updated: 2026-10-04
language: en
---

# How to Delete an eSIM from an iPhone

If you no longer need your travel eSIM, you can remove it from your iPhone in just a few steps.

1.  Open Settings:
    
    -   Go to **Mobile Service** (or it can be labeled Cellular).
        
    
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2.  Tap the eSIM you want to delete
    
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    -   If the eSIM is **off**: tap **Delete eSIM**
        
    
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    -   If the eSIM is **on**: scroll all the way down and tap **Delete eSIM**
        
    -   You’ll see a message explaining what will happen. Tap **Delete eSIM** to confirm.
        
    
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    -   The text will change to: “Are you sure you want to delete this eSIM?” Tap **Delete eSIM** again.
        
    
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    You’ll now return to the **SIMs** view. The Travel eSIM may still appear with a label “No SIM” instead of “On” or “Off.” Tap on it once more.
    
3.  Update Contacts
    
    -   In the pop-up “Line No Longer Available” (sometimes titled “Cellular Line No Longer Available”), tap **Update Contacts.**
        
    
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    _Don’t worry - this won’t remove any of your contacts. This is a standard iPhone message. Since our eSIMs don’t include a phone number, no contacts are linked to this line. The eSIM only provides mobile data._  
    
4.  Change mobile data line (if needed)
    
    If you’re deleting the eSIM currently selected for mobile data, your iPhone will ask which line to use for mobile data instead.
    
    -   Choose your home number or another eSIM you’d like to use.
        

That’s it! **Your eSIM has been successfully removed.**