Holafly eSIM Review & Testing | How To Activate on an iPhone
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In this video we’re reviewing Holafly and their unlimited eSIMs. We’ll not only take you through how to purchase, install and activate a Holafly eSIM, but also test their speed and find out whether they are truly unlimited.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:53 eSIM compatible devices
1:08 How to check if your device can use an eSIM
1:30 Introducing Holafly
2:59 How to buy a Holafly eSIM
3:59 Double check the technical specs
5:39 How to install your eSIM
8:45 How to activate your eSIM
10:03 Testing Holafly
33 Comments
Never knew about esims great for turkey
Biggest downside of Holafly for me is that you cannot use most of their esims (at least the ones I have looked at) as hotspots for your laptop. Makes them less suitable for a "digital nomad" such as myself who prefers not using cafe or other public wifi for work. .
Going to turkey soon. Thanks for the rewiev!
So helpful!!! Thank you so much!
Can I used there internet on an airplane ✈️ in flight mode while flying?
This video is fantastic! I’m going to America in 3 months and started researching cheaper ways to be able to use my phone. Someone mentioned esims and I’d never heard of this. After doing a little further research I found your video! I will definitely be saving this video and using it to help me set up my eSIM card for me and my wife when we go! Thank you!
Going to France next week, this video was what i needed!… thanks!! (used Holafly last year and was excellent!!!)
Hello can I setup before I fly out or wait until I get in the country to activate?
Excellent, thanks
What happens if u activate before you go away? Will it just change network when u do go on holiday. Thanks
Anyone experiencing bad after sales service!? Because I bought their Esim an hour ago and asked them for QR code and didn’t receive anything! Contacted every communication channel but no one is responding to it!!
Was this demonstration done on an iPhone? I am just trying to figure this out for my 18 year old who is travelling alone. Is mobile date the same as cellular data?
Is there a video to show us how to set the phone back to original status, before setting up holafly sim?😊
Is it possible to track the remaining number of days?
I used this for a recent trip to Spain/France/Italy. Worked great! One problem, couldn't get my primary to be active in the background without my Verizon wanting to activate my International plan. Curious if I did something wrong in the setup/switch between the 2 sims?
It says no sms,,,,i am assuming that is not the case for apple's imessage (blue bubble) . As well, i use my extra esim compatible iphone outside the country and it does not have its own number or sim card….i assume i can simply use holafly's given number Thnx
Well holafly can take a flying leap ! I’m in Portugal – no service anywhere – got stuck at airport bc I couldn’t call Uber – they have zero customer support- I’ve texted them 10000 times – no reply except a bot that sends you in circles
From my experience the customer service chat always let me wait for hours and not been read or any response. sending customer service email is slightly more responses but still need to wait for quite some time😭
Great video. Very informative and not a fast pace. One suggestion, it's Mbps is Megabits per second and not Megabytes per second😀
Damit I have an iPhone 8 that not compatible is it ? 😢
I’m traveling to NYC in a week. I purchased my Holafly eSim. Can I install it now and activate after reaching? I’m confused, when scanning QR code it says activation. Great video!! Please help 🙂
Just used holafly 'unlimited' sim in Spain. After 5gb of use holafly throttled my data making it hard to even load up a Web page. Wouldn't recommend.
Has anyone used this for Sri Lanka??
I have used Holafly several times – in the USA (Florida) and in Asia (Hong Kong and in Taipei) before and it was fine. This year we are to person traveling in Asia for two months. We noticed that we have more problems with Holafly “Asia” this year. In Hong Kong it was no problems. We bought Holafly Hong Kong. But in Taiwan (we bought Holafly Asia) we noticed a big difference from an iPhone 13 Pro and an iPhone 14 Pro Max. We were using the same apps on both phones the whole time. Had the same settings on the phone. All the background updates were off on both. But the iPhone 14 Pro Max was throttled and not the other phone. And when we comparing how much GB the phones had used in the period – it was quite similar.
Both phones had often bad connection in the city – and it wasn’t necessarily the same connection bars on both phones at the same time on the same spot.
And our using habits are the same in both Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Crazy question 🙋🏽♀️. Will this work while being on a cruise ?
I just tried booking this France plan but it looks like they do not offer phone numbers anymore and therefore no sms or cell service 🙁 Is then another eSIM company that does offer phone plans while there? I have metropcs and they unfortunately do not offer international plans
Holafly in Dubai sucks. Etisalat is way better
Hi, to receive and do calls, do i need to have roaming activated on my regular sim?
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in my experience i can say that Holafly is not really a good option. I have tried to use it in the US and since day 1 the connection has been so unstable. Its slow and i am guessing that maybe becuase the network comes from China i cant even use tiktok at all. i spent about 3 hours minimum trying to get it to work. For me its not worthy.
I used Holafly then when I activated and used it, it turns out I was connected through China Mobile and all my data was going to China
Hi there, based on your very informative video, i purchased two regional Holafly eSims for Asia to cover Singapore & Bali. My question is concerning activation of the eSim. On one of your videos, you indicated that once the eSim is activated (even if your not in Asia or unable to connect to any Regional GSM Networks) the countdown begins. Other youtubers have indicated that once the eSim is activated, the countdown begins once the eSim has established contact with the GSM Regional Networks (Asia in his case). Clarification would be most welcome. Thanks