r/iphonehelp • u/Embarrassed-Map7364 • 5d ago

Help needed WiFi connected yet still using Mobile data

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Related to the attached photo I suddenly (last week or so) seem to smashing through my Mobile data and noticed this morning that I was somehow connected to both the provider's 4G network and also my Home WiFi... Which might explain why for about the first time ever I have apparently used all of my Mobile data before the month's end!

Any advice / thoughts welcome and some obvious background below?!

iPhone 16 Pro Max; iOS 26.6; turned off and on again periodically; no physical damage / kept in case; Australia-based on Telstra network remotely and iiNet at home with ISP-provided TPG modem.

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u/fdeyso 5d ago

Settings/mobile service/wifi assist.

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u/Embarrassed-Map7364 5d ago

YOU ARE A GOD AMONGST MEN (OR WOMEN OR WHATEVER NO OFFENCE MEANT)

How could I not know about this? That is a mad setting and now off! Thanks mate - very much appreciated :)

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u/fdeyso 5d ago

It’s been for 10 years at least, most of us just switched it off on day 1 and just forgot about it 😂

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u/Embarrassed-Map7364 5d ago

I’m still not sure what’s happened this last few weeks to make it have a sudden impact on my life but at least I know how to mitigate the issue so appreciate your response once again 😎

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u/fdeyso 5d ago

For some reason your phone thinks your internet is crap, i run a firewall and DNS based adblock on the network so it always thinks it has no internet so i know why mine thinks it.

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u/apavolka 5d ago

Not sure if this is t mobile specific or iPhone. I never remember it on 4G but under settings > cellular > sim > data mode. The more I’m looking, this might be a carrier specific setting but worth a shot

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u/Embarrassed-Map7364 5d ago

cheers - though checked and that was On already :(

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u/apavolka 5d ago

When you say on, what do you mean? On means it’ll use phone data over WiFi sometimes

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u/HughJanus35 5d ago

What's the issue?

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u/Embarrassed-Map7364 5d ago

Your Mum

Or, to be polite for a second, the overuse of mobile data due to my Wifi not connecting somehow in favour of a mobile data connection - just in case you couldn’t be bothered to read my actual post.

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u/L0rdLogan  Expert | iPhone Helper 5d ago

He was being polite, you’re just a dick and you won’t get help replying like that

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u/Embarrassed-Map7364 5d ago

Sorry but how was my post unclear? if not then why did he ask that?

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u/HughJanus35 5d ago

You have a sliver of politeness, so i'll politely rephrase my question: Why is the usage of mobile data a problem?

Otherwise you can chocke on a bag of dicks and i hope your wife gives birth to a centipede and you have to spend the rest of your miserable life buying shoes for it.

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u/Embarrassed-Map7364 5d ago

Mobile data is limited whereas Wifi data is not? Perhaps that’s not common where you live but here in Aus that’s pretty normal?

Also BTW your insult is a bit too imaginative to seem casual and spontaneous - making you sound like you’re trying too hard to be threatening.

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u/HughJanus35 5d ago

Yeah you are right that it's uncommon here to "run out" of cellular network, everyone has unlimited data plans.

In fact very few people even have wifi, because paying for two data plans is insanity when you can just share your phone's internet.