Can I activate my iPhone without a SIM card ... If you have a US version of the iPhone 14, there is no physical SIM card slot. If you got your iPhone 14 from another country, the SIM card slot ...

Apple ditched the ditched the physical SIM card slot in favor of the eSIM in the iPhone 14 series in select markets ... users to activate a cellular plan without having to use a physical SIM.

The reason Apple is removing the physical SIM card ... slot from some but not all iPhones, for example by taking it out of the Pro and Pro Max models but keeping it in the standard iPhone 14.