Until recently, using a data connection abroad was quite expensive, and even though the rules of unified prices already apply to the European Union, this is not yet the case in the rest of the world. A family from San Jose who went on a trip to Vietnam was also convinced of this.
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When they returned, they were greeted with an unpleasant surprise: a bill from T-Mobile for more than $13.000 for data. The whole family had agreed to have their phones on during the vacation. iPhonech set airplane mode to avoid roaming and internet charges. However, they have reportedly found that airplane mode is not really enough protection. They claim that if you do not turn off the data connection on your phone directly, some services and applications can use data when Wi-Fi is not available. The result may be charges from your phone operator.
For example, $13 would buy you 13 iPhone Xs in the US:
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Nicholas, who is responsible for the large amount, claims that he was playing a game of chess on his iPhone during the flight, but it was offline. Moreover, the entire amount increased in a very short time – just 30 minutes. Nevertheless, the family managed to avoid paying. First, they contacted T-Mobile directly, who told them that Nicholas had downloaded several large files during the flight, which he had not done. The operator therefore reduced the amount to $3.800. However, the family did not like this either, because they said that they were not at fault and no data was nestThey contacted ABC 7 reporters, who asked T-Mobile how they could charge that much when the phone was in airplane mode. The only response they got was that Vietnam is not included in the free roaming zone.
When ABC 7 dug deeper into the case, they found that many apps that appear to be offline are using the internet for location tracking, updates, and advertising. The chess game Nicholas was playing is one of them. However, the standard Airplane Mode should still be sufficient, and in this case, it's a fault of T-Mobile or the system. iOSThe activities of journalists areonec managed to agree with T-Mobile to completely abolish this required fee. So if you are traveling outside the European Union and do not want to experience a similar shock, we definitely recommend disabling mobile data directly in your iPhone settings. As you can see, simply activating airplane mode may not be enough.
I hope to go for this immediately Apple the same lawsuits! It is not normal that when a person gives iPhone into flight mode so that it simply ignores it and cheerfully connects further to the network without the user's knowledge, which can also endanger the flight in an airplane. I hope they pay handsomely for it!
So it's quite possible that the family will sue the Apple he even earns some $...😂. Tribute to USA 👏
How does it endanger the flight? As far as I know, GSM is on a different frequency than aircraft radio communication. MaxAt least pilots will hear a subtle noise, and only exceptionally.
apart from taking off and landing, devices can be used in airplane mode without any problems.. some companies even operate paid wifi on board the plane..
Nonsense! I travel abroad twice a year and every time I switch iphone SE into airplane mode and then I check the data consumption, it doesn't even take me 1kb! How about when the GSM module is turned off... the article is crap!
I completely agree with you
Um, considering that on LSA not only articles about Applol, so how do you know they had iPhones?
Because it is mentioned in the source article :-)
You can't just trust what some scribe writes somewhere and then you paste it over. This used to be true when using a device with JB and even depending on the installed garbage outside AppStore. FM is perfectly sufficient with ofiko FW so that data does not go through the mobile operator.
I'm not surprised at all. I was in Turkey this year, even though the data was turned off. iPhone somehow connected. It was only known because an SMS from the operator arrived.
Data off and airplane mode is something else. SMS from the operator will of course also come without a data connection.-)
There is a report about the start of data collection abroad. That's the SMS you were talking about for sure.
The same thing happened to me in China. Otherwise, I don't turn off data within the EU, but I do outside of Europe. I don't want to pay several hundred crowns for 1MB.
@JAJA: and even turning off mobile data is no guarantee that iP won't really reach through a mobile data connection, if you have LTE enabled for voice and data, you're in the right place... Personal experience from this summer outside the EU, turning off mobile data and still getting a few KB every day from that crap iOS 11.4.1 downloaded because under that there is also a roaming setting, in which the LTE setting is cleverly hidden, and there it is cleverly hidden for voice and data and that is the problem. Until you turn this off, this piece of crap will download a little bit of data every day anyway. :-(
Well, the problem is that iOS from version 9 or 10 (or some version of 10) I guess, it completely ignores information about the status of blocking the mobile connection. Note: I don't have any jailbreak, everything was done with a clean installation via iPhone and I always reset all settings to make the device as new and also performed an integrity check several times (I do this after every new system installation). If you have Mobile connection set to off, then Apple it also uses mobile data connections (it turns it off only for all user applications and their services and a couple of basic services from Apple, but not in the whole system). I easily verified this when I had a connection for a day (which I used for several years) and even when I had all mobile data turned off, after the new version iOS anyway, after turning on the system or very sporadically after some time, the phone connected to some peek (a few KB in size) without permission and I received an SMS about starting to use the data connection for the day (which I used to use basically as an emergency for iDOS and the like). I don't know if it's some special function orCloudwhich cannot be turned off since the new version of the system or some other crap, in any case everything was completely turned off in Settings. However, I preferred to cancel the mobile data connection and all its connection points directly with the operator so that he could not take away anything at all and iPhone no more withancand do anything without WiFi (fortunately the operator refunded my money). Anyway, I was also surprised that after updating to the new version of the system Apple something like that can allow and use mobile data without consent or notification to the user (maybe it's in those license terms that no one reads), before when it was set to Mobile Connection Off, it was off, period. Of course, it really bothers me that I can't use mobile connection for a day as an emergency, because it no longer activates at the time when I, as a user, want the data to start being used. So I've been using it for over a year and a half now iPhone only wifi, which I have on every corner anyway.
I had mobile data turned off for three weeks in Belize, including the trip through the airports back to Prague (I forgot to turn the data back on in Amsterdam) not even kb... When I turn off the data, the phone simply does not have a data connection. Otherwise, something is wrong.
it's the LTE option for voice that's separate from the "mobile data" control that does it, it's the scumbags who made it this way
Operators such as O2 can control roaming and its blocking at the level of the SIM card. So at least companies can set in the portal where it should work and where it shouldn't (in the EU outside the EU), at least as far as data is concerned.
Then all possible appand the weather is unlucky.
So that's advice. Companies don't really care.
this is completely stupid, I don't know which airline they were flying with, but there is no signal at the altitude of the flight. so even if he was like that, it is not possible that he would sell so much even if he had been downloading for a whole year. so there is no need to solve any flight mode.
Interesting, last year I was on vacation in Egypt, I had my mobile data turned off and was using hotel Wi-Fi exclusively. Nevertheless, the operator charged me approx. 50 CZK for a mobile connection. Does anyone get it?
Morons in Applu separated the mobile data control from the LTE control for voice and data. It's in the Roaming settings and it has to be turned off too. ;(
Than toonehe came euro roaming, I turned off data whenever I traveled abroad and it never happened again. nestnot a bit. When flight mode is on, all radio parts are turned off and not a bit can be downloaded again. After all, at that moment it is not communicating iPhone nor with Apple Watch. And in addition, there is no standard coverage on the plane, some airlines have their own connection, but this is paid for.
And what's more, when I signed a contract with the operator, I had to set maxthe minimum possible limit for spending in the Czech Republic and abroad (it's for data and calls at the same time, I simply can't spend more than my set limit and if I wanted to exceed the limit, I would have to actively change it with the operator), I can't believe that US T-Mobile wouldn't have this...
Nonsense!
It's just that the kid turned off the flight mode a few times on vacation so that an advertisement - video was displayed in the game, and that took a few tens of MB of data.
Of course, it will be difficult for the parents. And they believe him and throw it at the operator or Apple.
If they were a bit responsible, they wouldn't have put him on flight mode, but would have turned off data roaming in the settings. Chalanisko wouldn't even know where to change it.
Otherwise, it makes no sense to have the flight mode turned on abroad - because no one is allowed to use it that way. Nor the parents, if, for example, he got lost.
The safest thing to do is to block the operator's data for the duration of the vacation. That way they would be sure that he would not deceive them.
Well, that's probably a lot to expect from an ordinary US citizen. :-) Well, I'm not saying that ordinary citizens are more intelligent here. :-)
That's stupid, flight mode disconnects all communication, both GSM-Data, BT and WiFi. And you can't turn on GSM data transmissions separately without canceling flight mode, at least not on iOS ne.