Yep, just found out I had this problem, too. I share a mifi hot spot and throughout the day (and night) have a variety of wireless options and for this reason have a cell phone plan with modest data usage. When I don't have access to any wireless (which is not often) I only turn on the cellular for a few moments. I was going to need it over the course of a day, so tried to turn off the apps I didn't need at all (all but maps and safari) but couldn't. So, of course I forgot to turn the cellular off (stressful day) and she kept running over night. My cell company (can you guess which one???) sends courtesy messages when you are say over 65% 3 hrs AFTER you've actually blown all your MB's. And they say the app on the phone is not accurate (still saying I have a few extra MB before extra charges). So, I have 2 questions:
1. I want to test the strategies suggested here, but don't know whether or not my iPhone 4 actually is functioning correctly or not - I have tried the Restrictions strategy and the options to selectively turn off certain apps from using cellular data are slightly greyed out. Do I have to have cellular data on in order to turn off certain apps? I can't turn cellular on since I am in a dispute with the phone company So I can't turn it on until Feb 8 when I start my next billing cycle. So IF cellular data has to be turned on to selectively turn off certain apps, I'll just have to wait to see if it works.
2. If anyone has gone over the limit, has any phone company reversed charges because the APPLE app is not working correctly? Any ideas about that? It seems kind of creepy that one half of a partnership can have problems with its apps that actually enriches the other half. How can we as consumers monitor or control our cell data usage if we have the impression that our apps work only to find out they don't? $20 for 1 MB may not seem like a lot but if the counter app on the phone (that came with it) and the capacity to turn off certain apps to reduce useless data usage for the consumer DON"T work and a 100,000 of us don't know it, thats 2 million dollars. Maybe that's peanuts to ATT. Any thoughts?
Thanks