Hi Mary, The Cell Network Search has nothing to do with how your phone connects to the cellular network or whether it connects at all. A Google search resulted in a bunch of results, here is one explanation which is easy to understand:
Cell network search: Apple keeps a database of cell towers and monitors reception in your area based on this option. It’s used to improve products in general and it’s not really a necessary function, so you can disable this feature if you wish not to share cellular tower information with Apple. Wi-Fi Networking I am pretty sure does something equivalent for Wi-Fi Networks and hotspots. Even Setting Time Zone is not required as your phone also receives this information from cell towers. I have turned this on in rare situations when I travelled to Asia and for some reason the date and time did not seem to set themselves. Turning it on would fix the issue and then I turned it off again since it anyways would only be important if you travel across time zones. Here in Canada or the US I have never found that the time was not displayed correctly even with this turned off. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2016 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Search for cell network under system services, what is it? I took the advice about going into location services and checking the system services under there and turning off things that you don't need. One of those items is checking for cellular network services or something close to that. Now that sounds like something you would want to do when you are signing up and getting connected with your cellular network. And I think the advice in the original post was that it could be turned off. But I wonder about what might happen if you were on a road trip, say, and lost contact. Or even if you had to reboot your phone or turn it on to airplane mode and then off-again. Wouldn't it have to find the network? So, I turn this off but I'm wondering if that was a good idea. Mary 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 and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
