Moving my mobile numbers to VoIP

For the last year or so I’ve been running three eSIMs on my iPhone: personal, work, and a data-only travel SIM that swaps in whenever I’m abroad. iOS only lets two eSIMs be active at any one time, which meant a small but constant dance of enabling and disabling profiles depending on what I was doing that day. I’ve now ported both my personal and work mobile numbers to VoIP, and the eSIM juggling is gone. The nudge came from Michael Bazzell’s Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear, which recommends moving your “real” numbers off a carrier and onto a VoIP provider as part of a broader privacy strategy. For Bazzell the point is untangling your identity from the mobile network. For me it’s almost entirely convenience. Whichever phone I pick up in the morning rings for both numbers, and the data SIM can sit wherever it’s most useful without me having to decide which mobile identity to sacrifice for the day. The provider and the app I’m using Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) as the VoIP…