"Mobile Data is Turned Off" popup
"Turn on mobile data or use Wi-Fi to access data."
Nothing is more frustrating about using an iPhone than this popup.
I have answered OK to this popup several THOUSAND times by now. Ten or twenty each day, multiplied by years of using iPhone -- not an overstatement.
Does it have a counter of some sort, such that by a second thousand the phone realizes: "oh, maybe my user already knows about the mobile data being off"?
Yes, I know it's off. I know where to turn it back on. I do not need "Settings" link to send me to the settings, it's right there in quick access menu without the need to go to settings at all. I do not need "OK" either, because it does nothing.
So this popup:
Appears all the time, for example when you are out of Wi-Fi range for a second.
Does not provide useful information, beyond educating a first time smartphone user about mobile data.
Does not give useful actions, because it's faster to turn mobile data on/off in the quick access menu anyway.
Does not go away even if Wi-Fi connection is restored, so you need to click it every time you walk from one room to another, even if Wi-Fi wasn't present for 5 seconds literally. Wow.
Do you have a usability team in Apple at all, do they flag you obvious usability issues? Come on Apple, you can do better than annoying useless popup!
Here is a solution for you: make it a bubble at the top, that will actually disappear once the phone finds the new Wi-Fi access point and the connection is back again.
Yes, I saw thread 251771969, where the response is "These notifications are actually part of the system notifications and cannot be disabled" and more education about Wi-Fi.
iPhone XS Max, iOS 16
