iOS 8.1 LTE / 3G / 2G toggle

It is looking like Apple has stopped supporting that option. You can turn cellular on or off but you can't drop down to slower networks.

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Here's the tutorial that shows how to deal with the switches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDZl0l8RELs

If you go to Setting then cellular you can then disable or enable LTE, and when you disable LTE it will go to 3G.

i strongly feel its not the sim issue since i am a frequent traveller around the globe and use different country sim cards on my iPhone. Recently i have used a ** sim on my iPhone and noticed that i had the option only to enable LTE and not 3G. On the same phone if i use the airtel sim i get the option for 3G and not LTE. Kindly not in both cases the phone/network/os is the same. The same airtel sim on iOS 8.1 is showing LTE but on iOS 7.1.2 is showing 3G. So i am sure tis not the issue of the sim. I personally feel the issue is with the carrier update, on the iOS 7.1.2 the carrier shows AirTel 17.0 but on iOS 8.1 it shows AirTel 18.0. If there is any possibility for getting 17.0 on 8.1 this should solve the problem or apple should come up with a 18.1 or something.

There is a chance that Airtel did not enable this option for iPhone 5S and above in their carrier update. That's because the LTE band (frequency) which they use is only supported by iPhone 5S and above but not by iPhone 5.

I wouldn't rule out a possibility of a mess up at Apple's end though.

Thanks,

Rajeev.

The feature is completely controlled by network. If the network allows the user can control that option . I have read an article about this in http://tinyurl.com/pvmthdo

I Have iphone 5 and 5S. While I upgraded to iOS 8.1 on both devices, the iPhone 5 have the option of "Voice&Data" to chose either 2G/3G/LTE whereas the iPhone 5S donot have except to switch on/off LTE. On both the phones I have Airtel SIM and based in Hyderabad. this is crazy

I still don't see it.

When I went to Settings>>General>>About, it prompted me saying new carrior settings are available. So I updated and it's updated to 18.1. Keep in mind I have an iPhone 5S with T-Mobile. After that I went to Settings>>Cellular, I don't see a toggle to switch from 2G to 3G to LTE. I'm in the US.

I have a 5 & 6 iPhone both with the same carrier, on the 8.1 update the 5 now has the ability to have 3G Off, the 6 is still the same with no option.

This makes me believe its down to the phone model 5 and back the toggle will now be available and 5S up not available.

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T-Mobile Poland = no 2G toggle

Orange Poland = no 2G toggle

Play = no 2G toggle

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That's true.

I've tried the same SIM on Blackberry q10, nexus 5, nokia e71 - all these devices have ability to choose 2g-3g-4g (except nokia - there is only 2g-3g) and only iphone5s has trouble with some mythical carrier update.

Maybe Apple means that if you have non-4G sim, then you are now able to select 2G/3G

But if you have 4G sim, then 4G/3G selection is available only.

If it's true, I'm dissapointed. I personally do need 2G/3G/4G selection option!!!