The iPhone 5 uses Cellular Data over WiFi?

Have you seen the film Minority Report? That would explain it!

In two days after transferring my iPhone4 data/music to my iPhone5 I used 2.55 GB......2 DAYS! I think there is something to that!

I just wanted to contribute to this thread and say that I too am experiencing cell data usage despite my wifi connection. I just got the 5 a couple of weeks ago and I might have busted through my 2 gb limit (I'm awaiting for today's "usage" to register on the ATT website). Anyway, the worst offense apparently happened last night at 9:30 and I "consumed" 775MB. I was on wifi practically the whole time last night.

Anyway, I'm willing to test it out, but only after the bill has come in, b/c I don't want to mess with my cell data yet. I'm going to complain to ATT and see they could remove any overage charges. I figure if we get enough complaints about this, there may be a software fix or something that Apple could provide.

I'm unhappy with this phone so far. I miss my 4.

Verzion has released an update, AT&T, not yet, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57523668-37/verizon-wont-penalize-iphone-5-own ers-for-wi-fi-bug/ Cnet

I'm not happy with the extreme data use. It's made me shy away from using the phones Internet capability. The bottom line is at this point I don't trust hue phone to not swallow up my entire data allowance in minutes.

The cable news channel where I live is called bay news 9. They just did a story on this and pointed to Apple forum complaints about it. They specifically mentioned that Verizon made a change but AT&T customers have gotten nothing yet. They said that Verizon's offered to not add additional charges on those customers who've been affected by this bug.

You know what? this is probally apples way to make us pay for sprint unlimted 😝

If you haven't already heard, service providers are aware of the issue and at least Verizon that I know of has put out a patch to correct the problem. Go to settings/general/about/verizon and you should see a box that states 'an update is available' by your provider. Glad it wasn't my imagination.....Verizon also paid for an extra 2GB this month to make up for the data loss

I just called AT&T to register this issue. The first lady was really nice about it, and said they have noted the problem and will make a note in case I do get overage, i will not be charged. Then she transferred me to the "data" department, the lady was RUDE! She totally accused me of not knowing how to use the apps on my phone, and that some apps are designed to use cellular data and not wifi. I explained to her that I've had the iPhone since 2009 and never had issues like this, been using the same apps. She was just absolutely rude and tries to point the finger back at me. Makes me so mad!!!!!!!!

I read a news article today in a Melbourne Australia paper that said the mobile data bug is know to Apple. The phoen seems to prefer 4G over wifi. Suggestions that iCould Safari syncing might be part of the problem. Others think it might be Apple podcast appand removing it might help. The carriers Telstra and Vodafone in Australia said they were away of issues. Telstra is in discussions with Apple to try an dfix the problemthat is causing iphone 5 to prefer LTE or 4G data over wifi even when connectd to wifi. On twitter Telstra aid there was a suspected issue with the iphone. Vodafone said there was an issue at its end and Optus is investigating. Virgin Mobile is also look at the issue. On 30 September US telco Verizon and Apple released an update which fixed an issue that caused iphone 5 to use Verizon mobile data while the phone was connected to wifi

Hi makdaddy8888

Just had a lengthy conversation with Vodafone. They say in their case with me that the issue concerns iCloud and inadvertent "consent" to sync iCloud over mobile rather than wifi? Our phone is running iOS6 on a iPhone4, will get carrier patch deets etc asap. On our phone the download traffic was 184mb and the upload traffic was 6.3gb. How does this relate to your experience?

M.

I seem to be having this issue, too... I averaged about 1.6-1.8 GB/mo. over the 2 years I had my iPhone 4, and yet somehow have racked up 2.5GB of use on my iPhone 5 in less than 2 weeks? I have not done anything that would be data intensive like Netflix streaming or anything. Just the typical uses I've been using for years.

I just heard on the 11 PM ABC news tonight in NY that Apple has issued a patch. Hope the news & apple both got it right.

Looks like its old news, i.e. The Verizon patch. Haven't found anything else.

I turned off my data usage as soon as I got my iPhone on Sunday, I turned it on to test and it did consume data while on wifi, I have the AT&T 200mb plan and rarely go over. My sister got her phone this morning and already consumed 850mb, she's on the grandfathered unlimited though.

It's happening to all the phones in my family. The 2 iPhone 4Ss and my 5 — all running iOS 6. All on AT&T.