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Presumably it would apply only to your LTE carrier, not built-in device limitations. That is a very weird thing for Apple to build in to a phone/tablet though..

• Already__Taken 12y ago
  That to me sounds like a decision apple made to protect all users from some massive LTE bill. Most people are already very paranoid their phone is going to rack up some huge bill without them noticing.
  • tragic 12y ago
    I can't think of any other reason, but it should at least be optional, as it often is even at the app level - Spotify lets me choose whether to stream on 4G and even set a different quality setting. On Android, updates only happen automatically on wifi, but I can manually apply them on a data connection if I want. Unless it's a customisation as part of some deal with the carriers. I understand that this sort of thing is common in the States.
    • mikeash 12y ago
      Apple's philosophy is generally not to expose a setting when a good default will satisfy 90% of the users. For something like this, where most people should have it disabled (being clueless about app sizes and data uses) and some power users might enable it, but clueless people will enable it and then complain about it, Apple will typically not make it configurable. Not that I agree with their position, but that seems to be their approach.
  • randomfool 12y ago
    Just wait for Comcast et al to tell us that implementing NN requires metered billing.
  • lost_name 12y ago
    It might just be leftover from the early days of the iPhone, where AT&T, the original carrier of the iPhone in the states, complained about network congestion and bandwidth issues in highly populated areas. I would think that AT&T may have asked Apple for some sort of limitation on non-essential services like this.