T-Mobile will charge customers $5 per month to use iPhone Handoff, an e-SIM feature that allows the same phone number to be used on two separate iPhones. iPhone Handoff requires carrier support, and at launch, only T-Mobile users in the U.S. and Deutsche Telekom users in Germany will be able to use it. T-Mobile says customers can use their number across two compatible iPhone models and elect which phone is active at any given time.

T-Mobile will charge customers $5 per month to use iPhone Handoff, an e-SIM feature that allows the same phone number to be used on two separate iPhones. iPhone Handoff requires carrier support, and at launch, only T-Mobile users in the U.S. and Deutsche Telekom users in Germany will be able to use it. T-Mobile says customers can use their number across two compatible iPhone models and elect which phone is active at any given time.

A quietly powerful new iOS 27 feature is coming into focus, and it looks like T-Mobile could be among the first carriers ready to actually support it when it lands. As reported by MacRumors, the feature, called “iPhone Handoff,” lets someone designate a main iPhone and a companion iPhone, both running iOS 27, and use the same phone number across either device by ... [read full article]