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wifi assist - sneaky buggers
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How do you turn if off?
Edit: it's an option in cellular settings. Interesting point, op. Thanks.
I discovered the same over the weekend. Our family plan typically consumes 3GB per month. We have a 6GB plan and I was actually thinking of downgrading the plan to 4GB as we never use the data. On Saturday, I found out that my phone in the 5 days since iOS9 came out has burned through 16GB of data. That's a massive 10GB over plan and we are only a week into it.
Investigating I found the wifi assist. The labeling of this is misleading and the fact that this is turned on by default will mean that many people are probably blowing through their data without realizing thinking that they are on wifi.
Apple needs to fix this by switching off the option as default and having it as a opt-in.
I need to talk to Verizon as I will be disputing this overage.
Investigating I found the wifi assist. The labeling of this is misleading and the fact that this is turned on by default will mean that many people are probably blowing through their data without realizing thinking that they are on wifi.
Apple needs to fix this by switching off the option as default and having it as a opt-in.
I need to talk to Verizon as I will be disputing this overage.
so what's your wifi speed at home, that ios thinks slow?
there's got to be a built-in threshold in it.
there's got to be a built-in threshold in it.
I have ulimited data i aint turning that **** off
I like this feature.
Often find WiFi hanging onto a nearly dead connection
Often find WiFi hanging onto a nearly dead connection
My Wifi at home is 25/5. This weekend I was away in a motel though. I think their wifi in not great and I was watching video. I think I went through 4-5GB just this weekend. But even at home, I have consumed another 4-5GB in a few days and it should have no issue with the Wifi.
I think the wifi assist may be a little over eager to use cellular data.
I think the wifi assist may be a little over eager to use cellular data.
that's interesting. well i turned mine off just to be safe. i notice a slight .5gb increase on mine, as i usually use about 1gb monthly since i have wifi everywhere i go.
Funny how they enable this by default but still won't allow cellular to download apps/updates over 100MB.
Has anyone tried disabling cellular data for apps that can consume lots of data (App Store, YouTube, Skype, etc)?
My problem is that the wifi our house is ok in some areas, and poor in other. So I set up a spare router in the other end that has poor wifi. The problem is that the iPhone hangs on to the poor signal like death. Usually I have to force the network to change manually. It's not so much the speed, it's the connection strength. I only have 1Gb of data. Outside of wifi I only need emails, so it's never been a problem. This could easily eat up 1Gb if I wasn't aware.
The very least is it should pop up and say bad connection, do you want to use mobile data?
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The very least is it should pop up and say bad connection, do you want to use mobile data?
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I think people might be overestimating how much of a role this might be playing in most situations. It's possible there is some issue with it or some isolated situations might result in more unexpected usage, but I'm not necessarily sure that the additional usage some people have been seeing after updating (which happens to people after updates even those from before iOS 9 where this assist wasn't available) is directly related to this particular functionality.
Okay, now I am confused. My phone was saying that I had used 16GB in the last period. However, checking data usage on Verizon's site states I've only used 1.33GB. So perhaps this is not such an issue after all. Now to figure out why my phone is reporting high usage?
you need to reset the usage on the phone on the billing cycle when it resets your usage. if not, you'll see what you see now.
the phone doesn't know your billing cycle, but verizon does. i have to clear my usage on the iphone to match my TMo counter on their site.