One mobile number, two phones: What is iPhone handoff and which carriers support it?
Big Tech Apple One mobile number, two phones: What is iPhone handoff and which carriers support it? If you switch between two iPhones regularly, you're going to love this new feature. 20, 2026 8:30 pm EST Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover If you use two iPhones, you no longer need to run separate carrier accounts for each of them, thanks to a new iOS 27 feature: iPhone Handoff.
- ▪Big Tech Apple One mobile number, two phones: What is iPhone handoff and which carriers support it?
- ▪If you switch between two iPhones regularly, you're going to love this new feature.
- ▪20, 2026 8:30 pm EST Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover If you use two iPhones, you no longer need to run separate carrier accounts for each of them, thanks to a new iOS 27 feature: iPhone
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| Publication time | Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:30:00 +0000 |
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Big Tech Apple One mobile number, two phones: What is iPhone handoff and which carriers support it? If you switch between two iPhones regularly, you're going to love this new feature. By Jonny Evans Sept. 20, 2026 8:30 pm EST Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover If you use two iPhones, you no longer need to run separate carrier accounts for each of them, thanks to a new iOS 27 feature: iPhone Handoff. Mentioned briefly at WWDC and in more detail during Apple's Surprise and Shine event on September 9, iPhone Handoff lets you use the same phone number across two iPhones; in typical Apple fashion, the feature is so easy it's almost invisible. Once you set it up, all you have to do is unlock the iPhone you want to use, and you're ready to go.
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