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Reports out today indicate that iOS 6 users in Britain are suffering from data overload, as their iPhones are chewing through their data allowance faster than a fat kid devours cake. Apparently, iOS 6 even eats cellular data when on Wi-Fi.
iOS 6 does bundle in a load more streaming and cloud connectivity-based features, but if you’ve been using that kind of thing through 3rd-party apps like Spotify since iOS 5, surely that’s really no different on iOS 6. One addition Apple did make to its latest and greatest that might explain it is that, if you’re connected to a Wi-Fi source, but it’s not allowing data through, your iPhone will still pull down stuff over 3G — handy if you automatically get bumped onto a hotspot that needs authentication or something.
Is anyone in our iOS 6 readership noticing this? I personally haven’t, but then I’m on an unlimited plan and chew through data pretty quickly anyway. [The Guardian]
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No.
iOS 6 magically makes all Android phones burn through data
Yeah it does, but that’s just because we keep sending Apple Maps gags to each other.
Nope all fine here, Sent 34.2MB and Received 259MB from September 21
Oh you poor non-unlimited bastard..
The Guardian and their leftist agenda! What are they like!
Bit of a shambles this new Iphone thingy.
Yes. I chewed through 400MB in three days despite only downloading stuff when (I thought) it was on wifi.
Blimey. Have you managed to stop it?
Are you still on the iPhone or have you returned from the dark side. I am concerned since you have somewhere to be tomorrow and might not find it.
You lie!
Sam, cleared the data usage log and will look again when I get home.
Darrell, bring a signal flare just in case.
Prozac, yes, but not here.
Okay.
Received 17.4MB (diplomatic entreaties): Sent 9.5MB (launch codes).
My old iPhone was nuts for the mobile data, used to read that it was chomping through megabits by the hour. I contacted O2 about it, they said that I hadn’t got close to the limit and it was probably the phone at fault (“You’re fine, fam. Man’s phone is misbehaving innit”).
No but it’s practically bricked my previously decent 3gs. I’m reduced to a few hours of stand-by from full charge to 40% at which point it dies, every single ruddy time. There’s a small amount of internet chat about it but I doubt Apple will be too concerned about 3gs deaths.
Ugh, yeah, that happened to the 3G with iOS 4 too.
Presumably they don’t allow iOS rollbacks so it keeps you spending on hardware, or perhaps their iOS uptake figures wouldn’t look so great if the rats left the new iOS ship after smelling the Apple maps cheese.
I remember having the same problem with my 3G back in the day like most Apple software it kind of makes a mockery of the “it just works” tagline I remember complaining about it on cough Engadget and some helpful Apple fanatic suggested I buy a new iPhone to which I replied if you bought a car and 12 months later the dealership came round your house slashed the tires put the windows through and shit in the tank would you go and buy another car from them !
Of course, Apple are just encouraging you to upgrade, what are they supposed to do, just let you use a 3 year old device?
If anything, mine is having the opposite effect. I didn’t install the network patch Vodafone sent me and it hasn’t registered much usage at all since iOS5, when usually I’d be down to the threshold by now — and I’ve been tethering my Mac and iPad on the busses while the rain’s been drowning us here in Edinburgh.
All month, I’ve used (according to Vodafone’s handy app and my online account) 49MB… Maybe I’ve got the opposite effect of The Guardian!
Hmmm… strange!
Update: I checked the phone Sent: 36MB Recieved: 1.6GB…. anyone know WTF is up with that?
have you ever rested the data? that could be months of data usage, it dosent auto refresh monthly.
iOS 6 not 5 lol… rushing at work clearly a bad idea!
This since iOS 6
At the bottom it gives a ‘last reset’ date, when’s that from? Downloading iOS6 doesn’t reset it.
Mine says I’ve used exactly 1.0GB since I must of updated to iOS6 – witch was a week before the general public update – so I’d say the 12th of last month, it is now the 18th, I’ve used 1GB in just over a month, unliminted data so not assed but that’s not too bad, I use spotify a lot in the car over 3G, used the Apple maps turn by turn a few times, Facebook casually, app downloads.
No noticeable difference from iOS5. (not that I check my data usage though)
This happened to me on iOs 6 – 3G data was being used up at an alarming rate, I turned off all 3G data use I could find in settings but still over 2 gig was used up. The annoying thing was that there was no net access icon in the top bar where the clock is.
Eventually figured out it was probably due to me turning off iTunes match the night before and selecting a lot of music to download to the phone from within the music app on the phone (while on Wifi) – it seemed to keep downloading the next day on 3G. I think the OS should at least show that there is some net access taking place in the notification bar.
I have a similar issue with my Android phone, so I turn mobile data off when I’m not using it myself. It’s a bit of a pain but it works. Can iPhones do that too?
Yea, but having an iPhone with no data is useless? iMessages need to get through, social notifications, and location based apps are always being used.
Can you not receive SMS without a data plan? LOLS
Yes, regular text messages come through because they’re over regular network. iMessages, just like What’sApp, Facebook Messenger, BBM etc etc, require a data plan.
yea, but I get iMessages mostly now. I have a few friends who have old iPhone’s with no sim and found blocked iPhones so they can just iMessage over wifi, also iPads and Macs. I get about 5 text a day now compared to about 50 iMessages a day.
Obviously it’s not a necessity but it’s a bloody good luxury to have, dont have to pay for MMS, Instant picture/video sharing, live group chats.
I could literally have no voice or text service on my iPhone and just get by with unlimited internet. (witch I am lucky enough to have).
150 MB used this month, so no.
18 days use, 13.6MB sent and 74.6MB recieved..
seems okay to me
They must be using Google Maps
Lol’ed
Is this a badly written Apple program that cannot figure out when its connected to a internet enabled Wi-Fi? Hope no one is wanting to upgrade to EE 4G network – might not be ideal.
I’ve noticed a bit of an ncrease in data usage, I used to be on 750mb (currently on 1gb) and be lucky to get near 500mb a month I’m currenty at 563mb and my next bill date is tomorrow.
granted it’s not too much of a biggy but in comparison to how it used to be it’s a fair bit more usage considering I use wifi majority of the time for data.
Yes! i went from using less than 1.25gb a month to using over 3gb in my first 2 weeks of my new contract. called O2 and they said one one day my iphone % had downloaded over 900mb in one day!! i thought it might have had something to do with Apples Podcast app trying to download or stream podcasts whilst not using the phone. since i have uninstalled the app my data usage has dropped dramatically so i assume that must have been the problem. got quite the scare when a 750mb bolt on only lasted 1 day. still using alot more data than my iphone 4 though
122MB received and 30.1MB sent, but then I’m almost always on wifi.
This has been my experience in October and I was starting to think I was the only one!
Within 48 hours of updating to ios6 I had no data left on my O2 contract. I used 350mb on the walk into work alone. This was very inconvenient, especially as I always run through the settings screen after every update. I then spent 2 long conversations with O2 ‘gurus’ telling me that everything was fine and I had plenty of data left before their systems caught up and I am left with 3 weeks of WIFI only.
Oh the humanity.
YES !!! since upgrading on my iphone 4 iv gone over T mobiles “unlimited” every month and haven’t changed my phone using patterns….
No problems at all on my iphone 5 or my wifes 4s and not even a problem on my sons 3gs.
On three all you can eat data… No problem here.
Most of my data usage is SkyGo, Netflix, iPlayer and iTunes cloud -I’ve used 49GB so far this month. Thank god for Three’s all you can eat data. Pllus I’m lucky that I manage to get 8-11Mbps download speeds.