Using a 4g/5g router? This phone setting could save you a few quid

6 points by panda_fish 2y ago ↗ HN

We have a 4g router at our static caravan, which I top up each month. At some point in the last day our iPhones auto-downloaded updates and used most of our monthly allowance in one pop. Turns out there is a “low data” setting that you can enable for a particular WiFi network in iOS settings - would have saved us a few quid! Presume Android has similar.

Would have been nice if it was enabled by default for 4g/5g routers, but I don’t know how.

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quickthrower2 2y ago ↗

So the idea is you wait to be on a public wifi to do large updates instead?

cpach 2y ago ↗

Didn’t know.

For posterity I’ll add a link to the official documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210596

Thanks for sharing!

2rsf 2y ago ↗

Same for Windows, it is called "Metered Connection"

panda_fish 2y ago ↗

Nice, that might also come in useful.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/metered-connecti...