How to switch to Google Fi (2025): plans, tips and advice

All the above prices are for one line paid monthly. Google periodically offers half special offers and other special offers, usually only if you bring your own phone.

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Once you choose and record your plan, Google will e -mail. It took a few days until Sim’s physical arrival arrived, but I will deliver the simple delay with all the pleasure if that saved me from the foot position in the material carrier store. If you use iphoneand Google Pixeland Samsung phoneOr any other device that supports ESIM, you can prepare Fi With Esim immediately.

Once your slide arrives, you will need to use a SIM tool to pull a SIM box and enter a SIM card in your phone. Then, download Google Fi app (You will need to be on the Wi-Fi network to do this because your slice will not contact the network yet), and follow the steps there. If you are going to your old phone number, it may take a little longer. For me, after preparing a new number, Fi was working after about 5 minutes. That’s it, I have finished.

I have traveled and lived in rural areas over the past seven years, and I have tried every phone only from every phone and a hot points plan – none of them anywhere near this simple. The only one is approaching Portable red pocketWhich I still use in addition to Google Fi. There are cheaper plans there, but in terms of ease of use and reliability, it is difficult to overcome Fi.

Using Google Fi as a hot point

You can use Google Fi as a simple way to add a cellular connection to any device that accepts a SIM card, like a mobile point for mobile. You will need to activate the Google Fi SIM card using a phone using the Google Fi app, but once you finish the activation, you can put this slide in any device that your plan allows. If you go with the Unlimited Plus plan, this means that you can put your slice in the iPad or Android tablet or 4G/5G. It is still binding on the 50 GB data, though, so make sure you don’t feel crazy with Netflix.

Instead, consider requesting a Data only SIM. Google allows you to have up to four if you are on unlimited or flexible plans, which means that you can keep four tools – a backup phone or tablet – connected to the Internet. Warning is that they cannot make phone calls or receive texts. You don’t have to use your phone to activate SIM first. You can only order SIM for data in the plan in your account, within the devices and subscriptions. If you just have an ESIM, you want to connect, you can click Connect your tablet device Fi will offer a quick response code that you can wipe to activate SIM.

Related questions

• Do I need a Google account? Yes, you need a Google account to register in Google Fi, but you don’t need to be all on Google to use Fi. I have an Android phone, and I use Google apps because this is what we use here in WIRED, but outside the work I do not use any Google services other than Fi, and still works great.
• Do you follow Google Fi every step? YesBut also your current provider. Google Fi Conditions say that Google does not sell what is known as customer ownership network information – such as the communication site, details and features that you use – for anyone else.
• I am traveling and I want to use Google Fi outside. Will this do? You require the conditions of the Fi service to stimulate your service in the United States, but then, in theory, you must work anywhere Partnership with a network within the country. Julian Chocato Fi Wireless Editor used in multiple countries while traveling. However, based on the reactions from the readers, reading the travel forums, most people seem to be cut if they are outside the United States for more than a few weeks. I would like to say do not plan to use Google Fi to achieve your digital dreams.

Tips and tricks

There are many features available through the Google Fi app that you may not at first. One of my favorites is the old Google Voice feature that allows you to redirect calls to any phone you want. This is also possible in Google Fi. All you have to do is add a number to the Fi Restronation List, and at any time you receive a call, it rings both your cell phone and the secondary number – whether it is a home phone, a second cell or the phone in Airbnb in which you are. This is very useful in places where your sign is the IFFY – only the path of invitation to the ground line. Likewise, it may be useful to enable the Wi-Fi recall feature for times when you can reach Wi-Fi but not a cell sign.

Another feature has become more useful as the number of random mail calls that I get ever is to block calls. Android and iOS applications can Block callsBut this sends the caller directly to the audio mail, and it still ends up with the sound mail. Bring a call through the Google Fi application, and the callers get a message saying that your number has been separated or no longer in the service. As they know, you changed the numbers. To prepare this, open the Fi application and search for it Privacy and Security> Communication Settings Management> Obligged numbers management, Then you can add any number you want to the list. If you change your opinion, just delete the menu.

Another thing is worth noting: I haven’t canceled my Google Fi service despite the shift to Starlink for most of the hot point needs. Instead, I have just suspended my Fi service using the app. This way, if you need it for some reason, I can reactivate it very quickly.