Moving Kid to Flip Phone from iPhone

[Murdoughnut]

Starting here before I ask the interwebs at large, but I need to move my kid from his iPhone to a flip phone. Having a smartphone is destroying his potential, and all of our efforts to regulate it are failing.

He's actually not opposed to having a flip phone where he can text and call, so what would that involve? We're with Verizon right now. Do I just buy a flip phone and there's some way to connect it to his number or is it more complicated than that?

Thought maybe a few folks here might know, but no worries if not.

 

[bp]

not sure if there are flip phones these days using eSims, but if they still use physical sim cards i imagine it will require a visit to a verizon retailer to port the same number from an esim to a physical sim

 

[ppragman]

Starting here before I ask the interwebs at large, but I need to move my kid from his iPhone to a flip phone. Having a smartphone is destroying his potential, and all of our efforts to regulate it are failing.

He's actually not opposed to having a flip phone where he can text and call, so what would that involve? We're with Verizon right now. Do I just buy a flip phone and there's some way to connect it to his number or is it more complicated than that?

Thought maybe a few folks here might know, but no worries if not.

My kids' (shared) phone is a flip phone, they won't have an iPhone in this house until they can buy it themselves. I have verizon, adding a flip phone was really easy, I just went down to the verizon store in the mall, said, "hey, I want a flip phone" bought one in cash, and then had them figure out how to convert the plan around and stuff. Pretty straight forward.