How to get around the stupid 100 mb download limit on ipad without wifi

SergZak wrote:

I'll bet the keyboard is perfectly fine. I believe it's the punctuator that's malfunctioning...

I guess I forgot to use the sarcasm emoticon......😉

Please speak in your native tongue or english so we can understand you.

Cheers

Pete

Sadly, I believe that is English and that is their native tongue. Too bad (not really though) we don't know that kind of English. 😁

😁

Taken care of.

I Can tell You, that this really is ridiculous. There should be "factory settings", that does not allow you to do anything, not even read your mail, unless you tick the "plan" to do so. Then the hill-billies, who get their first cell phone would be safe. However You should be able to run the device on full capacity, if you are up to or your operator provides "no-limit data-fast-lane".

Having a LTE-network, ie. 4G beats old wifi-router. And it's even more reliable. The 100 MB limit should defenately be opted, and set to Off by default. the point is that, on mobile you're on the move and if you have your connections and need an update for app that just exceeds the limit, you're in trouble.

ALso the switch between cellular and wifi is not going all that well, as does not the network switch from and back between 4G, 3G and Edge. Everything just stalls and you need to close and cancel, if the phone goes back and forth.

Thanks for your input..............I think.

Pete

Thank you for pointing this out Meg St._Clair.

Is there any relief coming in near future or are we stick to this ridiculous limitation that does not fit into European mobile networks which are capable to provide full speed for everyone without monthly quotas? i would like to carry mobile devices without PC or need to cross connect them via Wifi to go around this. I agree with some previous replies that there should be at least option to bypass limit by settings or by question dialog as Android does. Responsibility of these kind of decisions should be more on users hands than Apple's. 150Mbps LTE is more capable, usually more robust and secure than most of the hotel and cafe wifi networks.

hannu.piki wrote:

Is there any relief coming in near future or are we stick to this ridiculous limitation that does not fit into European mobile networks which are capable to provide full speed for everyone without monthly quotas?

No one here would know Apple's plans for the future.

Submit your feedback to Apple requesting such a feature here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

There should be an option do disactivate it

So totally agree!

I work (and live for weeks at time sometimes) in an area of the UK that *ONLY* has cellular access. I cannot begin to describe how dumb it is to have to remove my phone SIM, put it into a MiFi device, and connect to it by WiFi, just to use the data I am paying massive amounts each month for!

I can stream huge films to my phone directly, but Apple-related content needs a WiFi connection?!!

I 'get it' that when the original iPhone released, mobile networks threw their corporate teddies out of the pram thinking their networks were going to die overnight, but here we are, many years later -

The same networks are selling Truly Unlimited (in the UK anyway) data allowances, and Apple is *still arbitrarily limiting* data usage on devices for historical reasons!

When I bought my iPad1, it came with a 10GB/month data SIM - Apple limited that to 20MB per file!! WTH?!! The iPad was jailbroken within a week.

I bought a 64GB 4S a few weeks later - again, 20MB per file - on a 4GB/m contract. Jailbroken the next day.

Please do not think that I in any way advocate jailbreaking, I actually do not. The recent security issues surrounding jailbreaking reinforce this comment!!!
So, what I am EXTREMELY annoyed about is that in a country that does have decent data-capable networks is that I have been forced to either do the stupid dances of SIM swapping, HotSpotting to another iDevice, or even jailbreaking *JUST TO USE THE DATA I AM PAYING FOR!*

The networks are SOOOOO HAPPY to sell me this data, but Apple will not let me use it. Nice. NOT!!

C'mon Apple, it's about time that you allowed us to switch this limit off (probably with one of your now World-Famous 'Can't Blame Us' 80-page EULAs), and really let us use OUR phones as we need to.

PLEASE!!!!!!

(And yes, I just wrote to Apple begging for this to be looked at. And despite *needing* my email address - "Unfortunately, we cannot respond to you personally..." or some such blather. So that's straight into the Corporate Message Waste-Bin then. Or..., I will get excommunicated from the Church of Apple for daring to mention any 'unsanctioned actions.')

IF you want to download on, say, your iPad...make your iPhone a personal hotspot with wifi. Then connect your iPad with wifi to that hotspot. Enjoy.

SusiBiker wrote:

So totally agree!

I work (and live for weeks at time sometimes) in an area of the UK that *ONLY* has cellular access. I cannot begin to describe how dumb it is to have to remove my phone SIM, put it into a MiFi device, and connect to it by WiFi, just to use the data I am paying massive amounts each month for!

I can stream huge films to my phone directly, but Apple-related content needs a WiFi connection?!!

I 'get it' that when the original iPhone released, mobile networks threw their corporate teddies out of the pram thinking their networks were going to die overnight, but here we are, many years later -

The same networks are selling Truly Unlimited (in the UK anyway) data allowances, and Apple is *still arbitrarily limiting* data usage on devices for historical reasons!

When I bought my iPad1, it came with a 10GB/month data SIM - Apple limited that to 20MB per file!! WTH?!! The iPad was jailbroken within a week.

I bought a 64GB 4S a few weeks later - again, 20MB per file - on a 4GB/m contract. Jailbroken the next day.

Please do not think that I in any way advocate jailbreaking, I actually do not. The recent security issues surrounding jailbreaking reinforce this comment!!!
So, what I am EXTREMELY annoyed about is that in a country that does have decent data-capable networks is that I have been forced to either do the stupid dances of SIM swapping, HotSpotting to another iDevice, or even jailbreaking *JUST TO USE THE DATA I AM PAYING FOR!*

The networks are SOOOOO HAPPY to sell me this data, but Apple will not let me use it. Nice. NOT!!

C'mon Apple, it's about time that you allowed us to switch this limit off (probably with one of your now World-Famous 'Can't Blame Us' 80-page EULAs), and really let us use OUR phones as we need to.

PLEASE!!!!!!

(And yes, I just wrote to Apple begging for this to be looked at. And despite *needing* my email address - "Unfortunately, we cannot respond to you personally..." or some such blather. So that's straight into the Corporate Message Waste-Bin then. Or..., I will get excommunicated from the Church of Apple for daring to mention any 'unsanctioned actions.')

You are still not talking to Apple here either. Just other users so you rant will fall on deaf ears here.

Sorry

Pete

petermac87 wrote:

You are still not talking to Apple here either. Just other users so you rant will fall on deaf ears here.

Sorry

Pete

Thanks Pete, and sadly you are right 😟

I knew this before posting, but it felt really great to say out loud on an official Apple forum, something that has bugged me so much since ever since I bought my first iDevice - fantastic kit, but it is really dumb to continue selling them with this 'feature' pressed upon the owners for what is essentially historic reasons.

Like I said, I did also write to Apple directly, and I'm sure some poor soul(s) at Apple have to keep an eye on what is going on in the Forum, if only to gauge feelings and crib ideas off the userbase.

I was trying to cover all bases and show (Apple, if they ever do actually read this stuff on here) how annoying this restriction is. 🙂

Sorry for the rant if it offended, but if this stuff doesn't get said somewhere publicly, Apple will never bother to address it - 'the squeaky wheel gets the gets the grease' and other appropriate sayings. 😀

Anyhow, it's 'New Toy Day' today - hopefully with the new kit and new iOS, we will get a 'mighty increase' in the limit...? lol

Have a great day!

Susi xx