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Use this when the eSIM is going on a different iPhone than the one you’re signed in on — a family member’s phone, or a phone you’re setting up from your computer. If you’re installing on the iPhone in your hand, the app or Add to iPhone on the website is quicker.
Whichever iPhone scans the code is the iPhone the eSIM lives on, permanently. Make sure it’s the right one before you scan.

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Show the QR code

The code has to be on a different screen from the iPhone you’re installing on: a computer, a tablet, or another phone. Website: sign in at onroamly.com/my-esims, open the eSIM and tap Scan QR code.
The eSIM page on the website, with Scan QR code under Install your eSIM
Roamly app: open the plan, tap Install, then Show QR code.
The Roamly app's plan page: tap Install, then Show QR code

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Scan it

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Open Settings on the iPhone

Go to Settings → Mobile Service (some iPhones say Mobile or Mobile Data, and outside Australia it’s often Cellular) and tap Add eSIM.
Settings with Mobile Service highlighted
Mobile Service settings with Add eSIM under SIMs
2

Choose Use QR Code

Tap Use QR Code, then Scan QR Code, and point the camera at the code on the other screen. iOS recognises it and offers to add the eSIM.
Set Up eSIM with Use QR Code highlighted
The Scan QR Code button
The iPhone camera scanning a Roamly QR code shown on another phone
3

Tap Activate

iOS opens Settings and asks to activate your eSIM. Tap Activate. The message about sharing your EID with the service provider is normal: it’s how every eSIM is delivered to a phone.
iOS asking to activate your eSIM, with the Activate button
4

Follow the prompts

Give the line a label like Travel, keep the normal SIM as the default for calls and messages (Roamly is data-only), and keep it for mobile data for now.
5

Switch the Roamly line off until you land

Back in Mobile Service, tap the Roamly line and turn Turn on this Line off. Turn it on when you arrive.

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Manual setup (no camera, or the code won’t scan)

You’ll need two values from the same place as the QR code.
  • Website: open the eSIM, tap Manual setup, and copy the SM-DP+ address and the Activation code.
  • Roamly app: open the plan, go to More → Technical → Manual activation and copy the code. It’s one line that starts with LPA:1$. The part between the first and second $ is the SM-DP+ address; everything after the second $ is the activation code.
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Open the manual entry screen

On the iPhone, go to Settings → Mobile Service → Add eSIM → Use QR Code → Scan QR Code, then tap Enter Details Manually at the bottom of the camera screen.
2

Paste the two values

Paste the SM-DP+ address and the activation code into their fields. Leave any other field blank, then tap Next.
3

Finish like the QR code method

Same prompts as above: label it, keep your normal SIM for calls and messages, keep it for data for now, then switch the Roamly line off until you land.

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Before you fly

Turn off Data Roaming on your normal SIM while you’re still at home: Settings → Mobile Service, tap your normal SIM under SIMs (usually labelled Primary), Data Roaming off. That’s what stops your home carrier charging you overseas. If you won’t need calls or texts on your number while you’re away, you can turn that line off entirely instead. When you land, follow Just landed? How to activate your eSIM.
Mobile Service settings with the Primary SIM highlighted under SIMs
The Primary SIM's settings with the Data Roaming switch highlighted

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