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Iphone 5 using large amounts of cellular data

I personally never had an iPhone before. Before purchasing my iPhone 5, my wife and I together never used more than 2 gigs of data per month. She has the iPhone 4 and i had the original Droid X. Now that I have gotten my iPhone 5 and lost my unlimited data plan with Verizon, my shared data has sky rocketed. I am up to around 1.5 gigs of shared data and my billing cycle doesn't end till October 19th. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to adjust settings on the phone without rendering the cellular data useless and making this phone work only on a wifi signal? I should be able to still use my phone as I always have and not use that much more data.

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 26, 2012 11:07 PM

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nikhil.prakash

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Posted on Sep 26, 2012 11:27 PM

Hi,

you can turn off the cellular data from the settings and use only wifi... is it you are asking buddy or something else??

or you can check in the settings-> itunes & app store that "use mobile data" is off or not. may be that is the case

Many Regards,

Nikhil

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Nov 22, 2012 12:46 AM in response to Jconstantine313

I am in the UK I bought two iphones on a 02 plan last saturday, as it happens the reception was poor even in our home and we had wifi issues so the phones went back on the monday and I got them refunded, going to buy sim free next. But I was amazed bearing in mind that I was only setting my phone up indoors about ten feet from the router how much data I had used, I then turned to wifi only and it was down hill from there on, with constant no connection problems, taking a long time to download the apps, so that eventually I connected the phone to my computer and did it that way, everything else works fine.

Nov 25, 2013 6:54 AM in response to Jconstantine313

So happy to see someone else with this issue! I was on "online chat" with AT&T rep for over an hour the other day trying to find out why my iphone 5S used 1.2 GB of data in less than 3 hours! AT&T rep tried to claim it was because I might have had Facebook running in the background or that I watched too many youtube videos, which is ridiculous. Got nowhere with them. I also find that I have large amounts of data supposedly being used when the phone is connected to wife. Last night I wasn't using the phone AND it was connected to wifi but supposedly I used 30 MB of data.

Iphone 5 using large amounts of cellular data