How do I turn off the "cellular data is turned off for "podcasts"" message?

The notification is what people have a problem with. Turning off cellular data access for Podcast or Music does in fact turn it off, it doesn't secretly use your data or anything. But it does constantly pop up with a message that says "hey data is turned off for this app!" interrupting what the user is doing.

Glad to hear this!

Unfortunately I don't have the same experience; this is still a problem for me, even after today's update (using an iPhone 4s). I can't confirm that it's still a problem while using Apple's Podcast app specifically (I stopped using it!) but this intrusive popup notification still appears in a number of apps, including many of those mentioned by previous commenters...

This is, unfortunately, _not_ fixed in iOS 7.1.1 - as I can report from sad and extremely recent (just now!) personal experience. So very sorry.

"complain to Apple" time is once again your only recourse.

Somehow I think they really don't want to address this one; maybe in Cupertino they believe everyone in the whole freakin world is 4G-connected 100% of the time with an unlimited data plan. Or should be.

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Beto580 wrote:

The most annoying part is when you open the camera app for a fast picture and the same message pops up in the middle of the screen. Why is cellular relevant when taking photographs??

Maybe you have location services turned on for the camera app. It might be accessing GPS or something.

inthemaplewoods wrote:

Apple fixed this bug in the latest update iOS 7.1.1 on April 23, 2014. THANK YOU APPLE!

I upgraded last night, and I'm still getting the annoying pop-up in the Audible app today.

Never mind. I take it back--it's still there PLUS other annoying bugs introduced in the new upgrade. Apologies to everyone and PLEASE fix this Apple! (p.s. I did write to Apple, sent them a link to this discussion and would encourage everyone else to do this too.)

This is the message I sent to Apple:

Can you guys PLEASE stop with these annoying little pop-up that appear everytime I open an app that say "Cellular Data is Turned Off for "xxxxx". I have an iPhone 5S, and I use a "pay as you use" plan, so I have my data off for most apps, usually only use it for iMessage. So now, every time I open an app or a game, I get that stupid annoying message! Yes, I know I have "Data turned off"! I don't need to be reminded of it 50 times a day! Is this because the phone companies or app designers made Apple put that in, so we consumers use more data? Regardless, I am getting very tired of it and hope you fix this, ie. give us the option to turn it off.

My brother solved this one for me. I was getting that annoying message every time I turned on notes away from home. Who needs cellular data for notes anyway?

What was going on for me (and I suspect for everyone else who was getting that message for any app) was that the iPhone was attempting to sync its notes app with one on another device. I didn't want to do that - I don't do notes on any other device. Once I figured that out, I told the phone not to sync, and problem solved.

In Settings, Cellular - make sure cell data is toggled off for the app.

In Settings, Privacy, Location Services, make sure your app is toggled off.

In Settings, iCloud, make sure your app is toggled off.

Dennis

I don't think that will work for me. First of all, I'm talking about ANY app, even an Angry Birds game. Secondly, yes the cell data is off for those apps, location services is off, and I dont' even use iCloud. Your solution might be specific to only Notes. Apple used to ne known for user ease, but man, that's sure changed.

Please, anyone reading this thread: Apple support does not necessarily read these discussions. You need to send feedback as noted above.

I earlier sent feedback about this annoyance. I then found this thread and can see the magnitude of the dissatisfaction with something that would appear to be so straight-forward to fix.

I play the Ruzzle game but only at home using wi-fi. Thus, the cellular data option is turned off. These messages must be acknowledged several times a day. I could defend a one-time reminder for the user when using cellular, but this makes no sense.

Perhaps the only way to resolve this is to play their game: every time you get that message, send a polite but firm feedback message to Apple.

IOS 7.1.2

Thanks Dennis, your instructions did help for notes (which I use a lot). Unfortunately if I lose my phone I'll lose all notes since my latest sync with my computer or by turning all the functions back on and backing up to ICloud manually. (After being plugged in and being connected to wifi of course). They don't make it easy for the novice.

Hi,

I too have just spent ages online trying to find a way to stop my iPhone constantly remind me that "Cellular Data is Turned Off"! I know it's off, because I've chosen NOT to turn it on, because I don't want any of my data being sent back to whomever is asking for it, without my express permission.

And, as suggested in this thread, I too have sent an online complaint to Apple asking them to STOP telling users that Cellular Data is Turned Off, every single time I use my apps, and which I have specifically chosen NOT to allow data to be turned on in the first place.

I sometimes wish we went back to the olden days when we only had landlines! At least they wouldn't keep pestering you every two seconds, reminding you that you're not doing something you've specifically made a decision not to do. 😟

Pooch

Ha. All I had to do was upgrade to iOS8 and I lost ALL of my notifications across every app. But I still get this annoying message that the OP mentions. That bug still exists.. Now I deal with another.

I ran into this bug today, indeed the repeated irritating popups defeat the purpose of being able to disallow cellular data on a per app basis.

I see many apps that I would never suspect to go online pull substantial amounts of data, and the only options we have are to bite the bullet and contract a large data plan (while hoping no sensitive data, especially contacts, is being leaked by those apps) or endure the pain of constantly closing the popups.

Despite having very low expectations of being heard, I submitted feedback to Apple.

Interestingly, if you allow cellular data for an app that would otherwise show the popup and turn airplane mode on, the app/ios doesn't complain about unavailability of cellular data. By the way, if you turn off cellular data for an app that never even attempts to connect to Internet, the annoying popups still appear.

Therefore the annoying alerts are really a reminder that you turned off data for that particular app.

While I swore to never jailbreak my phone, I might reconsider this option.