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"Looks like you lost your sim tray ejector"

My kit:

I generally prefer the clear toothpick - easier to hold, came with a designer cupcake once (and I keep the flag on it because it's otherwise easy to lose a clear toothpick), generally better if the button is deeply recessed.

The paperclip phone tool is kept on the keychain between the USB micro card reader and the wallet sized SD card holder

Raz keeps track of mine

I just put it back in the box when I'm done

I have a stack of boxes in the closet, because I might need them someday

I have the whole box. Because you know, it might be needed sometime :P

I have like four or five of these.

not whether you have it – it’s whether you know where it is

Yes, in my drawer of miscellaneous tiny things, next to pens, tiny screwdrivers, and a few old microsd cards.

I keep one in my wallet along with a safety pin, hairpin, hair tie, and a twist key from an old fashioned roll top anchovy tin.

Any one of these things have come in handy a surprising number of times.

I need them for work so I got a fancy keychain one

Just keep it in the box the phone came in with all the warranty documentation. I've never lost one of these

Laughs in paper clip

I taped mine inside the cell phone case.

I have one in my wallet - just in case someone wants to steal my phone and I somehow have time to remove my SIM and SD before they take it.. optimistic I know

tied it around my keychain because SIMs are still much more handy than esim. Phone service where I live charge a fuck ton of money everytime you re register with the QR.

I have one in my wallet and one on my keychain.

I bought a bag of 20, stash them all over the place.

Or, you know, a hoarding problem…

I am the distributor of cell phones where I work. I have a box of these. They’re also useful to reset UniFi and other networking equipment.

it's within my phone's protection case, so i do have it right now. Also, anecdote, a random stranger on a bus was switching sim cards, and asked me if I have the tool, which I indeed I had!

Yeah. I have a Nintendo DS game box (still with the original game) where I keep such tiny things. Including various SD card adapters.

Yes, I keep them in the box.

or a hoarder

It's good to finally get some recognition!

Oh I for sure still have at least 10. But finding them when I need them is a whole other story

I still have the box for my phone with the SIM remover still in it lol

I have the ifixit screwdriver kit and one of the bits is a Sim card ejector. Does it count ?

Multiple ones.

A paperclip works fine.

I keep one in my wallet.

I found a pencil holder I had in the 1990s. It has these little drawers for erasers and stuff. I was like "oh cool, I can fill the rest of these with my SD cards and USB sticks."

So, while cleaning my desk looking for those, I found one of these. I was like "I'm pretty sure I had at least 2 of these." ...I found three.

The ones I have seen most recently are so thin and flimsy that they are worse at the job than a paperclip.

I usually find my thinnest allen wrench and use that.

In an electronics tool kit.

Mostly because the only time recall using that specific tool was when I got my Pixel 8, and that was shortly after release, so its been a minute.