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Narimaan Author

Level 1

7 points

iOS 7 cellular data settings won't save on iPhone 4s???

I'm using a 16GB iPhone 4s, with the latest version of iOS 7 as of writing this, version 7.0.3. Whenever go to the "Cellular" settings on the main settings page and turn OFF cellular data usage for a lot of my apps except for a few key apps that I need it for (Mainly Mail, FB Messenger App, Google Maps, and What' s App that I leave on), the moment I back out and come back in, almost all the apps I turned cellular off for are back on again. I've tried turning background app-refresh off thinking it was overriding my cellular settings, nothing. I've tried restarting my phone a bunch of times, nothing. Nothing I do seems to fix this issue and it's frustrating because I have the minimum data plan from AT&T and I can't turn cellular off completely because I don't have a texting plan and depend on iMessages, FB Messenger, and What's App to get messages from people, and a lot of times it can be urgent so I need to figure out how to fix this stupid bug. Anybody else have a similar issue and/or know how to fix this?

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Nov 15, 2013 11:49 AM

130 replies

Jan 15, 2015 12:26 PM in response to Narimaan

It worked!!!

I tried it the first time and it didn't work and I tried again and it kept telling me that there wasn't enough space on the C drive to export the file so this morning I tried it again but with my husbands computer and It worked perfectly!!!

Thank you so much!!!:)

user-tw

Level 1

0 points

Feb 9, 2015 10:56 AM in response to nuno.bett

Thanks nuno.bett!

Worked for me. I'm running Windows XP sp3. Some of the instructions had variance to what I saw in the GUIs (possibly a OSX vs Windows thing), but I worked through it.

Feb 18, 2015 10:26 PM in response to nuno.bett

Nuno,

I cant get the second program to download(sqlite)... keeps saying there is a problem with OSX....Any ideas on how to get around this problem? THanks in advance for the help.

Feb 20, 2015 1:25 PM in response to nuno.bett

when i open the .db file on sql editor it appears to be encrypted or something because i can't see any sort ofdata base just a bunch of letters and symbols…. any idea?!!

indermit

Level 1

0 points

Jun 10, 2015 7:52 PM in response to nuno.bett

We are now a year later with IOS 8.3 and the bug is still here. Your solution still works great.

Thank you very much.

CLI

Jun 10, 2015 8:25 PM in response to indermit

Idk all cellar netqork off and still receive notifications When I open app doesn't connect or run app

rwagler

Level 1

0 points

Jul 30, 2015 1:32 AM in response to Narimaan

try updating the individual apps one at a time

Aug 21, 2015 6:15 PM in response to nuno.bett

Wonderful, worked first time, perfect, thank you so much!!!

Windows 8

iPhone 4s

iOS 7.1.2

csjoao

Level 1

0 points

Sep 17, 2015 4:31 PM in response to Narimaan

Hello guys!

I've tried all of these steps and unfortunately it didn't work!

So, I tried to restore my iPhone from my latest iCloud backup a it worked!!

Cheers!

Sep 18, 2015 3:36 AM in response to Narimaan

Guyz.. I updated to ios9.. and i have this issue. Can anyone let me know if this fix works for ios9?

or a simple restore iphone back up from itunes work?

Sep 18, 2015 10:05 AM in response to BalaMachan

Having this issue on iOS 9 too. is this still working?

Sep 19, 2015 3:41 PM in response to Narimaan

It started to happen in my iPhone after the update to iOS 9.

I've tried the procedure posted here, even deleting the Cellular.db file and issue still continues (I've confirmed the file was deleted because a new one was generated, but the apps that does not work with cellular data shows a value of 4 instesd 0 or 1).

It looks something changed in iOS 9 in the way it works.

It's driving me crazy!!!!!