Re: Wi-Fi Assist?
To find WiFi assist, go to settings. Then go to cellular. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 29, 2020, at 1:43 PM, Shirley Baker wrote: > > Where do you go to find Wi-Fi assist please? > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/D675760E-E3AB-4BC6-987B-25805BB449A9%40comcast.net. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/A1125C55-1ABB-49EF-810C-3259E495B4C1%40gmail.com.
Wi-Fi Assist?
Where do you go to find Wi-Fi assist please? Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/D675760E-E3AB-4BC6-987B-25805BB449A9%40comcast.net.
RE: Beware, Wi-Fi Assist
Hi, This has always been a well-publicized feature of IOS 9. Apple has never attempted to hide it and makes it very simple to toggle it on and off. I always knew it was there since the day it first appeared, however, I ignored it even though I spend a large amount of time on the fringe of my router's coverage area. I finally checked my cellular usage one night when I noticed I had been kicked onto my data plan even though I was in my apartment in the middle of the night and saw that I was already up to 2.1 GB of data used about halfway through the month. Usually I am at about 300 MB for the entire month. So I just turned it off. I am in a unique position where I actually have a cell tower about 300 yards from where I am sitting so I can get bumped off my router to which I am pretty far away quite easily. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Paganelli Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 8:37 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Beware, WiFi Assist I was somewhat concerned about WI-FI assist. My wife and I share a bucket of 15 gigs between her iPhone 4, my iPhone 5s, and both our iPad Airs. Fifteen gigs between us seems to me to be plenty. Do I need to be concerned if I leave WI-FI assist turned on or am I probably ok? Alan Sent from my iPad Air > On Sep 29, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > With my new data plan, I have so much data that I don't care if Wi-Fi assist > is on. In fact, I like the idea. I think we have the best of both worlds here > with the ability to turn it off if we don't wanted. They certainly didn't > hide the fact that the feature exist. It's been all over in the mainstream > press that this Wi-Fi assist exists and they tell us what it does. So, it's > up to us to leave it on or turn it off. > Mary. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 29, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Woody Anna Dresner <wadres...@att.net> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've definitely been in situations where the Wi-Fi turned out to be >> inadequate. I would have liked my phone to use data in those situations, so >> I'm glad this feature is an option. Our plan has a lot more data than we >> actually use, though, so it won't matter if I end up using more data than >> usual. If I were on a tight data plan, I'd be very glad to have the option >> to turn this feature off. >> >> Best, >> Anna >> >> >> >>> On Sep 29, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote: >>> >>> I turned this off as well. If I am connected to wifi I want my phone to >>> only use that, if I have wifi off, then it can use the cell data >>> connection, I don't want my device deciding what to use, I guess I am >>> somewhat of a control freak when it comes to my devices, but I don't like >>> when they take things in to their own hands. >>> Original message: >>>> I read this story using one of my local television station's app on my >>>> iPhone, and thought everybody should know about this. I will post the link >>>> to the story at the end. IOS 9 contains something called WiFi assist, >>>> which is meant to boost a weak WiFi signal by supplementing it with your >>>> lte data. This seems to me to be a back door way to run up one's data >>>> bill, so the phone companies can collect extra money , being that it is >>>> turned on by default. I turned it off. Go to settings, cellular, and find >>>> it near the bottom of the long list of things that can access one's >>>> cellular data. I think it should be turned off by default. Perhaps I am >>>> being overly paranoid. >>>> Arnold Schmidt >>>> http://www.wral.com/beware-new-ios-defaults-can-run-up-data-bill/14 >>>> 932132/ >>>> <http://www.wral.com/beware-new-ios-defaults-can-run-up-data-bill/14932132/> >>>> -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone >>>> list. >>> >>>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >>>> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >>>> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>>> Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >>>> caraqu...@caraquinn.com >>> >>>> The archives for this list can be searched at >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ >>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/>.
Re: Beware, Wi-Fi Assist
I forgot about it and I do not have a data plan unfortunately. Anyway, it’s ridiculous to assume that Apple enabled this feature by default just to be in bed with phone companies. Yes, I read that somewhere. "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love." -- Martin Luther King Jr. <> > On Sep 30, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Merv Keck <blind5spar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > This has always been a well-publicized feature of IOS 9. Apple has never > attempted to hide it and makes it very simple to toggle it on and off. I > always knew it was there since the day it first appeared, however, I ignored > it even though I spend a large amount of time on the fringe of my router's > coverage area. I finally checked my cellular usage one night when I noticed I > had been kicked onto my data plan even though I was in my apartment in the > middle of the night and saw that I was already up to 2.1 GB of data used > about halfway through the month. Usually I am at about 300 MB for the entire > month. So I just turned it off. > I am in a unique position where I actually have a cell tower about 300 yards > from where I am sitting so I can get bumped off my router to which I am > pretty far away quite easily. > > > -Original Message- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Alan Paganelli > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 8:37 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Beware, WiFi Assist > > I was somewhat concerned about WI-FI assist. My wife and I share a bucket of > 15 gigs between her iPhone 4, my iPhone 5s, and both our iPad Airs. Fifteen > gigs between us seems to me to be plenty. Do I need to be concerned if I > leave WI-FI assist turned on or am I probably ok? > > > Alan > > Sent from my iPad Air > >> On Sep 29, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> With my new data plan, I have so much data that I don't care if Wi-Fi assist >> is on. In fact, I like the idea. I think we have the best of both worlds >> here with the ability to turn it off if we don't wanted. They certainly >> didn't hide the fact that the feature exist. It's been all over in the >> mainstream press that this Wi-Fi assist exists and they tell us what it >> does. So, it's up to us to leave it on or turn it off. >> Mary. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Sep 29, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Woody Anna Dresner <wadres...@att.net> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've definitely been in situations where the Wi-Fi turned out to be >>> inadequate. I would have liked my phone to use data in those situations, so >>> I'm glad this feature is an option. Our plan has a lot more data than we >>> actually use, though, so it won't matter if I end up using more data than >>> usual. If I were on a tight data plan, I'd be very glad to have the option >>> to turn this feature off. >>> >>> Best, >>> Anna >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Sep 29, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> I turned this off as well. If I am connected to wifi I want my phone to >>>> only use that, if I have wifi off, then it can use the cell data >>>> connection, I don't want my device deciding what to use, I guess I am >>>> somewhat of a control freak when it comes to my devices, but I don't like >>>> when they take things in to their own hands. >>>> Original message: >>>>> I read this story using one of my local television station's app on my >>>>> iPhone, and thought everybody should know about this. I will post the >>>>> link to the story at the end. IOS 9 contains something called WiFi >>>>> assist, which is meant to boost a weak WiFi signal by supplementing it >>>>> with your lte data. This seems to me to be a back door way to run up >>>>> one's data bill, so the phone companies can collect extra money , being >>>>> that it is turned on by default. I turned it off. Go to settings, >>>>> cellular, and find it near the bottom of the long list of things that can >>>>> access one's cellular
Wi-Fi Assist
A new feature of IOS 9 may be causing you to unintentionally use much more data. http://qz.com/510329/you-might-want-to-turn-off-this-new-ios-9-setting-if-yo u-dont-have-unlimited-data/ How to disable Wi-Fi Assist 1. Go to settings 2. Go to cellular 3. Go all the way to the bottom to Wi-Fi Assist 4. Hit the button to disable it. HTH, Dixie @-> ~ <-@ -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
