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WARNING: Podcasts Just Ate My Entire Month's Cellular Data

I installed iOS 6 yesterday afternoon and installed the latest Podcasts version. All worked well. While at home, connect to WiFi and started downloading some Podcast for my kids soccer practice.

At some point in time, the now know issues with WiFi and the missing Apple web page happend. My iPad auto swithed to the 3G network, but continued downloading about 15 massive video files.

Even though the Podcasts setting was set to NOT used cellular data, when the auto-switch happend, it continued download. My entire month's data plan was consumed in a few minutes, received several warnings from Verizon, but the deed was already done. Oddly enough, now my data plan has been completely removed from my iPad and it looks like I will now have to sign up again.

Just thought I would throw this out there as a warning for others.

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 9:31 AM

51 replies

Nov 27, 2012 8:49 AM in response to Karl Smith

This just happened to me last night as well. I told the podcasts app to download some podcasts while I was on my home wifi network. "Use cellular data" was disabled in preferences. I was on my home wifi the entire time, yet when I woke up this morning it had downloaded 200 MB over cellular and I had a data warning. I am deleting this app too, very disappointing.

KGB-1

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Nov 14, 2013 6:42 AM in response to Karl Smith

This is crazy, I use iTunes to download podcast, and then I use podcast app to play podcast and it ask me to turn on cell data, why do we need to use cell data for a podcast that’s already down loaded???

Jeri24

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Nov 16, 2013 8:10 PM in response to KGB-1

I turned off cellular data for the app, to avoid this very problem. Now it naggs me about it every time I start the app. So annoying!

Jan 3, 2014 3:10 PM in response to Jeri24

Having the same issue. Apple needs to better support the scenario of downloading podcasts via iTunes and transfering them to the iPhone via iTunes sync.

Jan 7, 2014 12:46 PM in response to William Fiveash

I thought the whole idea with a podcast player was that you downloaded content to your "pod" (i.e. to an iPhone, via iTunes) and listened to it later. The current podcast player interface is seemingly impossible to setup to allow this type of use without getting messages and/or downloading everything (not just the most recent episodes you haven't heard). Anyone know of a better podcast player? I'd even pay money for it.

Jan 26, 2014 9:39 AM in response to chibihannah

I’m hoping I’m not the only person who discovered this, but the podcast app has TWO switches that control cellular data, not just one. Settings-Podcasts has one switch (which doesn’t seem to do anything). Settings-Cellular has the other. Try turning them both off and see if that solves the problem.

WARNING: Podcasts Just Ate My Entire Month's Cellular Data