IN ios 7 there used to be a toggle to turn 3g on and off, but now that I have upgraded to ios 8 it is replaced with enable or disable LTE. I am from India, is there any way I can get 3g / 2 g toggle back?
Because keeping 3g on is eating away at my batter. It dropped from 80% to 70% in 20 minutes on my iPhone 5.
Appreciate any help that can be provided.
Thank you.
iPhone 5, iOS 8
Try this. Turn off Mobile Data under Mobile Settings and your phone will revert to 2G. Then turn on mobile data only when you need it. Not really very satisfactory but at least this works on O2 in the UK.…
When I turn off Mobile data, it turns off the internet completely.
Your solution doesn't work for me.
These are the options I have now in iOS 8, while below is the screenshot of iOS 7 options.
How do I correct this? It is affecting my battery life very dramatically.
When I went to sleep last night, my iPhone had 30% charging, and when I woke up in the morning it was switched off, completely drained off charging.
Apple please add the 3G toogle back! not all countries use LTE yet 😟
Regarding iOS8 cellular data option update.
Please Apple HELP!
It is very URGENT as it is hampering my iPhone5 experience.
Bring the old settings (iOS7) back otherwise battery life now (iOS8) is really bad.
There must be 3 options under cellular data like this:
1. Cellular data (2G)
2. Enable 3G
3. Enable LTE.
It'd be perfect for everyone (especially Indian iPhone users). It is just a minor update and many users will get satisfied.
Looking forward to hear directly from the experts at Apple.
I endorse request for the inclusion of 2g. Not everyone has a 3G tower. Left without a connection.
I have same issue as topic starter. In my place, The GSM operator signal not good(3G signal). In ios7 I always disabled my 3G therefore i can stay in communicate. ITS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME. Please Apple add this option for us.(Enable or disable 3G)
Plus in my country, there is only 3G-2G-1G-0G(:P) so LTE option is unusefull for my country people(Turkey). I downgraded ios 7 last night(just after update ios8 with great excite. I got dissappoint and downgrade to ios7). The only reason is that.
Sorry for my english. Thank you.
I am really fed up with 3G toggle issue... I really cant keep my 3G ON all the time.. It takes out my Battery & Mobile Bill & also Network..Requesting Apple to add this ASAP.... Otherwise i m very determined to Google Nexus... This Release from Apple doesn't seems to be Customer Focussed Approach.. Apple has focussed only a limited no of customers in limited developed countries. Too Bad..
None of the Indian Customers will be Happy with this release.
I believe this to be a "Oopps" on the part of Apple, easily fixed with an update, usually they release one within the first 3 weeks of a major release, so iOS8.0.1 should bring a fix to this ;-)... All that's left is to wait ;-)
I completely agree,lots of users who rely on 2G are not able to use it now because of heavy battery drain and having troubles. 2G option should be turned on back
This is the latest update. I am also facing the similar issue and contacted vodafone about this. The reason is -- most of the carriers are now using it's default APN as 3G rather 2G now. Hence if you want to use 2G network, you have to recharge your phone with 2G data plan only. Switching option between 2G and 3G is no more.
Now the question might arise why it used to work in the last iOS 7.1.2. Here are 2 appropriate answers:--
1. Setting default APN as 3G is taking time to get applied on each mobile device.
2. When we update iOS 8, our mobile carrier setting gets updated automatically and in the latest mobile carrier update, default APN is configured for 3G.
That is complete BS. If what you said was true, I would not be able to switch b/w 2G and 3G on my Android tablet (call enabled) which is on the same carrier. It is the OS that stops us from doing so, not the carrier ! As such Apple needs to release an update to correct this mistake, or many will switch from Apple to Android because of this. No one wants their battery drained in less than a days use.
As i said earlier, on iPhone you are not able to connect to 2G because you just updated your mobile operating system which updated your carrier setting as well. As per my discussion with vodafone technical adviser, soon all numbers will have their default APN set to 3G if they are 3G enabled. So i believe few days later you android device will also suffer from the same problem. When you update your android device to the latest operating system, this setting will immediately come into effect.
I don't think Apple can do anything about this because it's a carrier related issue and vodafone has agreed on it. If you are using vodafone then I would recommend you to visit their store. Don't call at their customer care no as either most of the time it will get disconnected or you will find some idiot who doesn't know what to respond.
I lost 3g connection after ios 8 update
3G signals are too weak and btry is not staying even 3 hours ... This ios ***** as far as this issue is concern... Please apple update something to solve this we are getting a trouble using internet and even calls
All users in this topic are new users. They are just register for reporting this issue.. Hoping some expert gıy in apple will response.. Not response yet.. i hope this issue is on apple's to do list...
Ios8 3g 2g toggle
