I’m considering getting a burner phone for my upcoming trip to Europe.
They’ll pretty much all work. I use an US model iPhone 13 Pro with no issues.
You should probably make sure the phone is not locked to a US carrier, so that you can install a SIM (or eSIM) that won’t incur international roaming charges in Europe.
A “burner” is a phone typically used by criminals so that authorities can’t prove who owns it, so it won’t be much of a “burner” if you log in to any account on that phone. What exactly is your concern about using your real phone?
Anyway, if it’s just wallet passes, you should be able to share those from your real phone without logging in on the burner. You may have to (temporarily) relax AirDrop permissions to allow anybody to send you stuff.
This goes back to what you think “burner” means. If you sign in to your main WhatsApp account on your “burner” phone then it can be traced back to you.
There are some apps you can’t easily get fwiw because they’re only offered on the eu app store. At least on iOS. Not sure about Android
If there was only an “EU App Store”… many apps are only available on the App Store of the relevant country.
Luckily most apps relevant for tourists should be available globally.
Otherwise it’s not a problem to create more Apple IDs for different countries, it’s just annoying to switch between them.
Got any links on how to do that? I was under the impression you couldn’t swap apple IDs on an iphone easily
Well, it depends on how you define easily. It does require a few steps (logging out and in again each time you want to swap). Definitely not as easy as on Android, but still totally doable.
You can create additional Apple accounts here—make sure to select the correct country. You’ll need to use a different email than your main Apple account (+ addressing can be helpful for this).
Then when you need to download an app from a different App Store, go to Settings > [Your Name] > Media & Purchases > Sign Out.
Click Media & Purchases again and click Not [Your Name]?.
Now you can sign in to your other Apple ID and use that to access the App Store corresponding to the country you selected when creating the account.
Will the said ‘foreign’ app remain functional after logging back under the ‘home’ ID?
Yeah, but you might get asked to log back into with your other Apple account to download updates.
Also, in-app subscriptions are only active when currently logged in to the account that owns the subscription. This is rarely an issue in practice, though.
For a phone that works in Europe, any unlocked US smartphone will do. I recommend getting an unlocked iPhone or Android from a carrier like T-Mobile or directly from Apple/Google.
Same here, as to a burner phone. Have never considered one before but more and more advice is to travel with one and perhaps not one’s regular phone, mostly for re-entry into the USA. Not sure the ins and outs of it either, following.