IOS 9 Cellular Data Usage Restrictions not working

mattsnod wrote:

I had this problem, too, but I seem to have found a way to get it to work again. I had to go into Settings>General>Restrictions and then disable restrictions. Restart the iPhone. Set all of the settings that you want to be "locked" after reapplying the restrictions. Then go back in and enable restrictions again. Now, when I go back to Cellular Data, the apps' toggle switches below are now grayed out.

Just tried it. Didn't work for me.

[quote]I had this problem, too, but I seem to have found a way to get it to work again. I had to go into Settings>General>Restrictions and then disable restrictions. Restart the iPhone. Set all of the settings that you want to be "locked" after reapplying the restrictions. Then go back in and enable restrictions again. Now, when I go back to Cellular Data, the apps' toggle switches below are now grayed out.[/quote]

It may seem like it worked but if you close "Settings" and then open it again and go to cellular data the toggles will no longer be greyed out

I just installed 9.1 on an iPhone 5C and have the bug that I can not disable the "Settings / Cellular / Use Cellular Data for" menu via restrictions.

I thought I had found a solution by restarting the phone, but the restriction on cellular data usage for the apps does not "stick." Sometimes they're grayed out; sometimes they're not. Apple needs to fix in a patch update.

This worked for me, but I had to turn Cellular on and off twice for it to work. Thank you!

Fair warning … I tried the "turn it off and turn it on again" trick a few times, but the settings never 'stuck.' Curious to see what your experience will be. Please report back.

new ios 9.2 out today, dec 8th 2015, this issue is still not fixed!

Please everyone, report it to Apple by submitting a bug report here at their feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Well thats disappointing, I just submitted a big report

Quite disappointing to learn that 9.2 has not fixed the restriction settings on cellular data; even with restrictions enabled users can change cellular data settings.

I don't think it's worth doing a bug report. I recently read that Apple has vast numbers of unmanaged bug reports, it is a waste of time for us to submit more. We need a celebrity to complain about this bug.

I do think that, contrary to what is often repeated here, very long discussion threads do get some attention. Perhaps if we get his one to 45 pages the bug will make it to a March 2016 update, or at least be part of the iOS 10 queue.

Bump. The restriction does not prevent me from toggling cellular data use.

You're right.

In my opinion, it is not just cellular usage - it is general data usage

vin12 wrote:

In my opinion, it is not just cellular usage - it is general data usage

There has never been a way to manage WiFi data usage. There should be a way to control cellular data usage SETTINGS which is not working, and which is what this thread is about.

There has never been a way to manage WiFi data usage. There should be a way to control cellular data usage SETTINGS which is not working, and which is what this thread is about.

If an app is taken off from memory by force quitting - then that is the way to make to sure the app does not use data anymore. Toggling cellular restriction is broken so is the terminate but not stay resident options for non-native apps. These 2 x iOS underlying features appears to be broken in iOS 9 update. It is immaterial whether the data usage is from cellular (3G/LTE) or wifi (802.11b/g) hardware interfaces of the phone.

Have you heard if the 9.x CellularDataUseSettingsRestrictionsDoNotRestrict bug is fixed in 9.3 beta?