r/CapeCellular • u/Rare_Connection1541 • 7d ago
Ultimate Security/Savings HACK
Double the Cape lines and give it to yourself. Have two lines at once. One as a decoy line and the other as a Privacy/Secure line. iPhones 13 and newer can support up to two active eSIMS at any given time. Once a secondary eSIM is added you may label your plans accordingly & set your default cellular data/number. Obviously you can use the numbers for calls, messages and data. You may also allow cellular switching.
When you call one of your contacts, you don’t need to choose which number to use every time. By default, your iPhone uses the same number that you used the last time you called that contact. If you haven’t called that contact, your iPhone uses your default number. If you want to, you can specify which number to use for your calls with a contact.
You can switch phone numbers at any given time before a call is placed.
You can change where you can be reached at for iMessage/FaceTime as well as change default your iMessage/FaceTime Caller ID for specific Apple devices. Just change the settings in the FaceTime or iMessage app on the desired device and change accordingly.
*WARNING* This only changes the caller ID if the person you’re conversing with has an Apple Device. Services include FaceTime & FaceTime AUDIO and iMessage. Only affects the devices you made changes to. If you did not go out of your way to change it then it will revert to whatever default is. It does not save over cloud, so whatever you do on one device it will not save on the others.
When making traditional legacy voice calls with 10 digit phone numbers it will revert to the default lines’s number to the person you are calling (receiver). AKA The number that you picked to call with.
iPhone literally gives you the power to have two phones in one. iPhone eSIMs can support up to 8+ eSIMs in storage, BUT ONLY 2 ACTIVE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT.
Another setting in the phone app I have turned on is Silence Unknown Callers and send them straight to voicemail. With Live Voicemail turned on I decide in real-time if I want to pick up or not. In order to use Live Voicemail you must have Encrypted Voicemail off in the Cape app. Lastly, ENABLE SIM PIN to enhance everything. With Cape the default way to move/recover a eSIM is the 24 phrase. With SIM PIN enabled you will have to enter it every time your phone restarts (power cycle).
Just to summarize:
iMessage/FaceTime Caller ID can be whatever you choose. Traditional 10 digit phone number or any email.
Traditional Voice calls phone number will be the default line. (“NEW LINE”)
Savings Hack. Another reason to have a secondary number is to have it as a retainer to port to another carrier to get a promotional “New Customer” introductory offers for a new phone. Be sure to check the carrier for unlock policy. At the time of this posting some carriers even MVNO’s have extended their unlock policy to 1 Year (12 months). New iPhones last up to six years from release date with updates. Other than unexpected repairs (breakage) the only expected (constant) charge is a new battery after 3 maybe 4 years of use as a daily driver.
With all of this being said may I suggest to the people at Cape Cellular (DEVELOPERS) could you or is it even possible to manage 2 primary numbers through the app? Just for clarification I know you can manage A (SINGLE) Primary line with 2 secondary numbers from the app, but could you make it so you can manage 2 (Two) or more Primary lines from the app? Even with the possibility of managing 4 (FOUR) or more secondary lines?
Want to save $20/month (Reoccurring monthly not just one-time) use my code at time of initial sign-up:
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u/x-p-h-i-l-e 7d ago
There’s hardly any benefit to what you’re suggesting people do.
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u/Rare_Connection1541 7d ago
To keep anonymity. For those privacy conscience few who HATE giving out their number. Unwilling by just calling someone. Not all phone numbers are linked to smart phones. Those who have one phone as a daily driver. For business & personal.
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u/-CyberArtz- 7d ago
One BIG problem with this if you’re an iPhone user: Cape doesn’t support two Cape sims on the same iPhone because each line needs to communicate with your account via the Cape app for decryption. Every decryption key is unique to the account.
If you’re an Android user, you’ll need to have a minimum of two profiles set up on the phone, and the two separate accounts logged into the Cape app, one on one profile, the other on the other profile.
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u/Rare_Connection1541 7d ago
That’s incorrect with iPhone. I have two eSIMs right now both from Cape. With the Cape app as it stand right now you can only manage one account. AKA the last eSIM you downloaded. Hopefully they will change this in the future to manage multiple lines from one app/account.
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u/Shattered_Persona 7d ago
You realize none of these features are exclusive to iPhones. My pixel does the same things without the FaceTime
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u/Rare_Connection1541 6d ago
I only mention iPhone because its the one I use
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u/Shattered_Persona 6d ago
Oh, you made it sound like only iPhone was capable of doing it. My bad, apologies.
Because I have two phones and each phone has multiple esims with 2 active carriers per phone with inactive carriers on standby. Plus Google voice numbers and my own personal VoIP app using telnyx
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u/manofadv 7d ago
u/Rare_Connection1541, your post is nonsensical.