My mother was at a hotel and within minutes all her cellular data was taken somehow. Her connection sharing was turned off but we see anyway that somehow data was used for sharing connection. 1.7 go within minutes. How can this be? She wasn’t connected to anything. She wasn’t even using her iPhone.
iPhone XR
Easily, especially if the connection is 5G. Although maybe it had used the connection previously, and the total of earlier connections and the current one added up to 1.7 GB. Remember that the usage data in Settings/Cellular accumulates forever, unless you reset statistics.
Go to Settings/Cellular and see which apps used the cellular data.
Knowing the Wi-Fi address doesn’t help much. What other devices do you have with you? Remember that by default any Apple device uses a “fake” Wi-Fi address to prevent tracking unless you turn off Private Address, so most likely some other device you have with you connected to the personal hotspot. If it connected without prompting that means the device has the same Apple ID as the iPhone that has the personal hotspot; any other device would need the personal hotspot Wi-Fi password.
No app. It was the shared connection. And when we click on it, we see a wifi address. And we don’t recognize it. 9e:72:10:cb:96:84
talked to her again. And it seems that she connected her iPad to her iPhone. But like for juste 5 minutes. How can it use 1.7 Go in 5 minutes. It’s weird.
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