All your bags are packed, you’re ready to go but before you leave on that jet plane, take a minute to prepare your phone for travel too.
First decide: Do you want to call and text from your regular number?
For a seamless experience, use the aloSIM tool to set up your phone based on your unique travel plans. This tool is the easiest way to help you figure out just the right settings for how you intend to use your phone while on vacation, including if you should have data toggled on or off, and whether you need a secondary online phone number. Plus, it’s fun. It’s like a “choose your own adventure” for your data needs.
Next, safeguard your data and make room for new memories
Our smartphones hold photos and videos of the precious moments in our lives as well as important contacts. Wedding photos, baby announcements, fun summer picnic pics, and random times out with your sweet dog are likely all piled (unsorted, let’s be honest) in your photo folder. You most likely also have all your contacts—from friends to family to work colleagues to that cute person you met on the bus—saved in your phone (and potentially nowhere else). To prevent any loss of this important life data, consider:
- Automated backups
Services like iCloud or Amazon Cloud automatically secure your phone’s data when connected to WiFi, so it’s simple to recover everything on a device if needed.
- Portable backups
If you prefer not using cloud storage, you can backup your photos and data to an external hard drive or directly onto your laptop.
Nobody wants to receive an insufficient storage notification while travelling. To prepare your phone for travel, consider doing a little housekeeping to remove anything that’s taking up space on your device.
Check:
- Large attachments
- Unused apps
- Any videos or photos that you do not need or want to keep
Consider the ALPACA app, which identifies all duplicates of photos and videos, including ones that are visually similar, so you can select your favourites to keep and delete the rest. It’s a quick and easy organizing tool for this tedious task.
Get what you need
Think about what apps you will need access to while on the road. These might include:
- Waze, App Maps
- Google Translate
- Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus, and Tubi
- Libby, Kindle, and Audible
- Instagram, TikTok, Youtube, and X (formerly Twitter)
Install your aloSIM eSIM
Avoid hefty roaming charges by checking out the wide range of countries included in aloSIM’s eSIM coverage. Download your eSIM to prepare your phone for travel before you leave to connect instantly to local networks upon arrival.
Keep in contact
Stay in touch with anyone you need to without any worry about additional fees or costs to using your device. Remember, by prepping your phone correctly, you can avoid expensive and inconvenient roaming charges and have nothing extra appear on your phone bill after your trip.
