At our house cell service is poor and, worse yet, variable; one minute we get two bars the next: no service. Home WiFi is bulletproof how do I force my iPhone to use WiFi calling?
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iPhone SE, iOS 18
Please view the following article:
Enable WiFi calling, then put the iPhone in Airplane mode, then enable WiFi. That will ensure that cellular calling is disabled.
FishingAddict wrote:
Zachyy wrote:
You could try and make an automated shortcut to run on your iPhone in the Shortcuts App.
I like this idea. I don't have time to mess with it now, but do know that Shortcuts has an action to determine the WiFi network name, to turn on and off Airplane Mode, and turn on/off WiFi. The trick would be to detect the WiFi name and then use a conditional, if it's the home network name, then turn on Airplane and turn on WiFi. If otherwise, turn off Airplane mode and re-enable WiFi.
Good to know!
Best_effort wrote:
Bingo! That works…now all I have to do is remember every time I come home to turn on airplane mode and every time I leave home to turn off airplane mode (at least a 1000 times a year). Is there any way to automate this to somehow prefer my home network or write a script that when on my home network would turn on airplane mode?
You could try and make an automated shortcut to run on your iPhone in the Shortcuts App.
Zachyy wrote:
You could try and make an automated shortcut to run on your iPhone in the Shortcuts App.
I like this idea. I don't have time to mess with it now, but do know that Shortcuts has an action to determine the WiFi network name, to turn on and off Airplane Mode, and turn on/off WiFi. The trick would be to detect the WiFi name and then use a conditional, if it's the home network name, then turn on Airplane and turn on WiFi. If otherwise, turn off Airplane mode and re-enable WiFi.
Bingo! That works…now all I have to do is remember every time I come home to turn on airplane mode and every time I leave home to turn off airplane mode (at least a 1000 times a year). Is there any way to automate this to somehow prefer my home network or write a script that when on my home network would turn on airplane mode?
"Bingo! That works…now all I have to do is remember every time I come home to turn on airplane mode and every time I leave home to turn off airplane mode (at least a 1000 times a year). Is there any way to automate this to somehow prefer my home network or write a script that when on my home network would turn on airplane mode?"
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Im not aware of anyway to make this default, but most certainly bookmark the solution by FishingAddict, by Dragging & Dropping it to your Desktop.
AppleScript:
As for writing a script, you might be able to make an app that you can add as a login item. You should ask this in the developer forums: https://developer.apple.com/
Yes, I read that article but it doesn’t address what I’m asking. It only talks about how to enable Wi-Fi calling it doesn’t talk about how to force it.
I don’t know if that’s possible.
How do I enable Wi-Fi calling on my iPhone?
