Do you still have one somewhere?

"Looks like you lost your sim tray ejector"

Raz keeps track of mine

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

I have like four or five of these.

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

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

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.

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.
- tied it around my keychain
  How often do you change sim (asking for a friend)
  
  its not really changing sim but more like changing phone. I have the big S24 Ultra but sometimes I just want something smaller and easier to carry, so I swap to a Zenfone 10.

I still have the box for my phone with the SIM remover still in it lol
- Yep, used it immediately to put the sim card in and then put it back in the box.

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

Multiple ones.

I taped mine inside the cell phone case.
- That's honestly brilliant.
  
  Oh. Thanks. That made me feel good. Don't hear that often.

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

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

I need them for work so I got a fancy keychain one
- Question: Is using paperclips a worse alternative? I've found them useful for those sim pinholes but im not entirely sure if its good practice
  
  It’s just a piece of metal that you use to push in another piece of metal, the same as the sim tool. They don’t cause any damage and are fine to use.
  
  Paperclips are just fine, they're just not as ergonomic / easy to hold while pushing
- That looks quite sophisticated for the purpose, I love it. If a phone repair man pulls out one of these, the alarm in my head to make the good coffee will most certainly go off.

I have a key holder with a fabric holder above it for random things. Like my checkbook for paying the gardeners, the mailbox keys, and this doodad is leftover from when I used to have a rechargeable front door camera doorbell.

I have one sitting on my fireplace mantle in a little dish. It's there to pop our Arlo doorbell off when it needs to come inside to charge.

probably

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
- Yupppp; same here.
  I think the Librem 5 (may've been another phone) came with a hole to attach to a keychain so it's the only one that I constantly have on me solely because someone thought to design for it.
- I never throw out boxes, because I know as soon as I'm unable to get it back I'll need it for something.

Just keep it in the box the phone came in with all the warranty documentation. I've never lost one of these
- Same. And in the past decade plus of using smartphones, I've never had to open the slot except to install the SIM card for the first time. Why do I even keep it around?
  
  Because the moment you throw it away a timer starts and in the next week you'll need it out of nowhere.
  
  I miss sim slots.

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.
- oof yeah wow they're on what, the pixel 9 now? That was ages ago.

I used to work for a cell phone "fixer" place. The quotations are because the hardware and software on iPhones is so locked down. Usually we would get iPhones that broke in a way that was out of warranty. Their warranty sucks. You will pay for your iPhone until it dies. Then you will pay for a new one. Android based devices followed suit. Neither had this problem starting out.

A paperclip works fine.

not whether you have it – it’s whether you know where it is
- I usually flip it to justify excessive organization: “if you can’t find it when you need it, you don’t actually own it.”
- wise words

I use it as an embroidery tool instead.

I got two ifixit kits and that's all I need, even though I stopped repairing the phone and just trade in every three years.

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

or a hoarder

what is that
- It's the tool that you use to open the SD/sim card slot on phones.

Yes, I keep them in the box.

- Wrong topic bud. We are talking sim card release pins here. NOT the official cisco reset tool.

I have two, and I know exactly where they are. If GPS were more accurate, I could give you the GPS coordinates for each of them.

Laughs in paper clip
- Finding the one that is small enough to pull off the job has been a pain. Recently switched to a new phone... And I struggled until I found
  Just. The. Perfect. Paperclip.
  And then I immediately dropped it between the center console and seat of my car.
  I'll find it eventually. One day.
  
  True. Go one step smaller: A needle will do too (don't ask me how I know)

Somewhere, yes..

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

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!

I have more than one. The key is the word somewhere.

I've got at least 2 on my desk. Both from my new phones ( the one I accidentally fried in a lake and the replacement I got ). They're both connected to some little piece of magnet strip that I have no idea where it came from.

Or, you know, a hoarding problem…
- Excuse me, what do you mean, 'problem'?

One in my wallet at all times.

I can confirm that this is false

It's good to finally get some recognition!

I have some smart devices that came with these so I appear very responsible.

Like seven a drawer somewhere. I don't know where though
- I have three downstairs in the garage, now the real question is... Where in the garage tho.

on my keychain with a set of handcuff keys and some earplugs lol
- You sound fun.
- One can never be too prepared. "Prepared for what?" is the question.

false ; I bought a 50 pack
- Planning ahead? Sounds pretty responsible to me
  
  😅

I still have like eight of those. I bought some smart devices a while ago that all had them for the reset hole, so I’m stocked up for life.

You only need it when setting up a new phone. So once you put the card in, you put the tool back in the phone’s box and just stick that in a closet.
So I’m asking… how CAN you even misplace one of those?
- What do you mean you don't take out the sd card every so often so you can quickly transfer 48GB of cat videos to your computer?

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.

No, I have OCD and everything has its spot

I keep one in my wallet.
- Keychain baby
- I tried that, but it pierced through the leather and escaped