{"id":12387,"date":"2015-09-25T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T12:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12387"},"modified":"2015-10-14T16:32:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T20:32:39","slug":"ios-9-adds-wi-fi-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/ios-9-adds-wi-fi-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 9 Adds Wi-Fi Assist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casey Liss<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Wi-Fi Assist allows for your phone to more aggressively fall back to using its onboard cellular connection in case the Wi-Fi it is connected to doesn’t respond in a timely fashion. While dangerous for some with small data plans, for those with some breathing room, this is a fantastic<\/em> addition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Update (2015-10-04): Mark Pygas<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you’re on a limited data plan, that’s bad news.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Slashdot<\/a>:<\/p>\n

That's helpful if you're in the middle of watching a video or some other task on the internet that you don't want interrupted by spotty Wi-Fi service. Unfortunately, Wi-Fi Assist is enabled by default, which means that users may exceed their data cap without knowing it<\/a> because their phone is silently switching their data connection from Wi-Fi to cellular.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update (2015-10-14): Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So, yes, it’s still possible for Wi-Fi Assist to chew through your data, but it seems like Apple’s identified the key spots where that might really be dangerous and preemptively moved to address them.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Casey Liss: Wi-Fi Assist allows for your phone to more aggressively fall back to using its onboard cellular connection in case the Wi-Fi it is connected to doesn’t respond in a timely fashion. While dangerous for some with small data plans, for those with some breathing room, this is a fantastic addition. Update (2015-10-04): Mark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[986,31,1137,476,187],"class_list":["post-12387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cellular-data","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-networking","tag-wifi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12561,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387\/revisions\/12561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}