You may soon be able to grab your next T-Mobile phone with just a QR code

TL;DR

• T-Mobile’s T-Life app appears to be preparing support for QR-based device pickups.
• Users would just have to display their QR code in order to retrieve hardware waiting for them in T-Mobile stores.
• Not all stores may support this method, at least not initially.

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Is there anything smartphone users dread more than having to deal with their cellular carrier? All too often, working with your carrier becomes an exercise in anxiety and frustration, so we’re going to be excited any time we’re offered the chance to streamline part of that process. And luckily for T-Mobile users, we may have spotted a convenient new change coming their way.

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The past year has not been easy on T-Mobile customers, and we’ve heard a lot of moaning over the shift to push all the carrier’s services onto its new T-Life app. Regardless of how you feel about that transition, our latest find has the potential to ease at least one pain point when you need to swing by a T-Mobile store to pick up a handset.

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