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Title: How iOS’s Wi-Fi Assist works and how it can affect your cellular bill Post by: HCK on January 05, 2019, 04:05:12 pm How iOS’s Wi-Fi Assist works and how it can affect your cellular bill
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Added in iOS 9, Wi-Fi Assist recognizes when you’re connected to a Wi-Fi network, but have a poor or erratic signal. When this happens, Wi-Fi Assist kicks over automatically to cellular for foreground apps to keep data flowing. This feature is enabled by default.</p><p>Wi-Fi Assist automatically excludes third-party audio and video streaming, and doesn’t relay data from apps working in the background. Nonetheless, some users wound up with surprising cellular bills (https://www.macworld.com/article/3018525/iphone-ipad/how-to-avoid-a-surprising-bill-due-to-wi-fi-assist.html) when they thought they were on Wi-Fi networks—it turned out Wi-Fi Assist used cellular data because the Wi-Fi connections were marginal. (U.S. carriers have largely switched to a fixed or flexible monthly maximum after which your cellular data rate is throttled to a very slow speed, so surprise bills are less likely.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3330676/ios/how-ioss-wi-fi-assist-works-and-how-it-can-affect-your-cellular-bill.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How iOS’s Wi-Fi Assist works and how it can affect your cellular bill (https://www.macworld.com/article/3330676/ios/how-ioss-wi-fi-assist-works-and-how-it-can-affect-your-cellular-bill.html#tk.rss_all) |