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AT&T was first to get the iPhone, yet it won’t support iPhone Handoff

Apple’s new ability to have one phone number and switch between two iPhones is spreading to more carriers, but AT&T doesn’t seem to care.

Hand holding two silver smartphones outdoors, backs facing camera, each with a large rectangular camera island featuring three lenses and flash, one phone slightly larger than the other
You won’t have to decide on just one iPhone with the new iPhone Handoff.

It was actually Cingular who was the only carrier Steve Jobs could get to take the iPhone, and also surrender the control carriers had back around 2007. But AT&T bought Cingular before the iPhone launch and so was the exclusive carrier for the device that revolutionized cellphones.

Skip forward twenty years and AT&T has not learned that backing an Apple idea is a good bet. With iOS 27, Apple has added iPhone Handoff, allowing users to own two iPhones with the same number.

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