{"id":9452,"date":"2014-09-02T17:27:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T21:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9452"},"modified":"2016-02-12T14:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:32:16","slug":"cellular-data-switch-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/02\/cellular-data-switch-doesnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Use Cellular Data For&rdquo; Switch Doesn&rsquo;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4146?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4146?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\"><p>You can also enable or disable cellular data for certain iOS apps and features from this setting.<\/p>\r\n<p>Choose Settings &gt; Cellular to view the cellular data usage for each app. Tap to turn off cellular data for an app. <\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, this feature seems to have stopped working with iOS 7.1.2. I went over my 200 MB bandwidth limit in both July and August&mdash;having never done so before. Apps such as OmniFocus and Overcast, which I&rsquo;ve always set to not use cellular data, used tens of MB of data each month.<\/p>\r\n<p>Omni seems to have received other reports of this problem and explained how I could turn off automatic syncing in OmniFocus. I think this helped, but the app has still used 5 MB of data in the last four days, when it shouldn&rsquo;t have used any at all.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2014-09-18): My initial impression is that iOS 8 fixes this bug, although it continually pops up alerts telling me that cellular data is turned off.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: You can also enable or disable cellular data for certain iOS apps and features from this setting. Choose Settings &gt; Cellular to view the cellular data usage for each app. Tap to turn off cellular data for an app. Unfortunately, this feature seems to have stopped working with iOS 7.1.2. I went over my [&hellip;]<\/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":[131,986,31,469],"class_list":["post-9452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-cellular-data","tag-ios","tag-ios7"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452","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=9452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13555,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452\/revisions\/13555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}