I have an iPhone 6. I'm home most of the time in front of my wifi so I have a limited data plan. I have cellular turned on to send MMS but every app has cellular turned off.
Every time I go to to an app a window pops up and asks me to turn cellular on. I don't want cellular on. Is there a way to get this to stop asking me? It's annoying.
Thanks
iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.3
No, every time your iPhone goes to sleep and is not connected to power it drops the WiFi connection. When you wake it up it attempts to update certain things in the background and first attempts the cell connection. Finding it off it gives you that message. It will then proceed to connect to WiFi and update.
Keep it plugged into power while you are at home.
I don't think that's it because I was on my phone, switched to google and got the message. I was back and forth between apps and it kept popping up one after the other and my phone never went to sleep. It just started it doing it after not doing it for awhile.
And with your theory, if I understand it correctly then every time I got on my phone after it woke up it would give me that message and it doesn't.
Okay, so what is causing it then. You left out all that information in your first post.
Have you tried Resetting your Phone?
Have you tried Restoring it from your backup?
Have you tried Restoring it as a new phone?
Yes I reset my phone. I'm not going to restore it from a backup or restore it as a new phone for a minor annoyance. Restoring a phone is the default position when Apple doesn't know what else to do.
i wadi was hoping there was a weird setting I'm missing.
No, you are incorrect, restoring the phone is what clears up many software errors.
It could be a weird setting. Try turning on cellular data on the some of the apps where you turned it off one by one and see if it goes away. One of them may be misbehaving.
Ive had apple on more than one occasion tell me to reset my phone when it was something in a setting.
II'll screw around with cellular settings but I'm not going to do a factory reset unless they'be figured out how to save game play.
THansk
A Reset and a Restore are not the same thing. A reset is like rebooting your computer, another thing that also clears a lot of problems. A Restore is done by connecting your phone to your computer and clicking on Restore. If you do it from your backup it will restore your game play. Assuming you are backing up your iPhone.
I did know a reset was not restore but I did not know that restoring from a backup saved my game play.
I do back up to my MBP so maybe that might solve a lot of weird problems I'm having. I'll do that when I have some time.
I Never had a single problem with my iPhone 4 and this one is plagued with weird things.
Thanks for the help and information.
Just wanted to tell you what I did. I turned Cellular on for Safari and every other app has stopped asking me to turn cellular on. Beats me but it works.
I just found something interesting out about this. I found an app that tracks my cellular usage.
I installed that, then turned on cellular for my most used apps. Even though it asks for cellular it still uses Wifi first. So I just turned stuff on and no problem with my usage.
iPhone 6 Keeps asking to turn cellular on.
