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ramanjassal98

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Does anyone know what happened to the iOS 11 feature of integrating your mobile data plan directly into settings? I remember it was available during the betas in the UK, but it never shipped. I thought it was a helpful feature to keep an eye on data usage without having to use a carrier app or texting service! This would be especially useful now that Dual Sims/eSIMs are becoming more common. Apple sometimes delay features for later updates, but this seems to have been axed entirely. I wonder why, any thoughts?



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It‘s something your carrier has to add support for, which sadly barely happened. It‘s been so forgotten I fail to find any documentation about this anywhere (so I could go and suggest it to my carrier), let alone what the official name for this was.

Most carriers probably want to push their app for data usage statistics.
 
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ramanjassal98

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My Carrier did support it during the beta, but it never emerged in the final release.

Most carriers probably want to push their app for data usage statistics.

I suspect you're right here and that is probably the main reason why the feature was dropped or not adopted. Glad to know that I wasn't the only one that remembered the feature existed haha!
 

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My Carrier did support it during the beta, but it never emerged in the final release.



I suspect you're right here and that is probably the main reason why the feature was dropped or not adopted. Glad to know that I wasn't the only one that remembered the feature existed haha!
Do you have any official Apple document link about it? Tried searching for it but all I find is guides on how to use the settings app usage section (no carrier integration).
I mean there has to be some form of integration info? Maybe on the dev portal?
 
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