iPhone XS Max New iPhone XSMax for wife downloaded 10GB of cellular data today for Apple Music !#$%

[Peepo]

I bought a new iPhone for Xmas gift for my Wife.
Yesterday I setup on WiFi using the transfer feature.

Today she goes out and an hour and 15 min later I get a text from Telus saying that I used 75% of our 40GB shared data. By time I login to account I notice it is now 86% and notice her phone used approx 10GB. I shut off data to all our phones.

I did get a screenshot of her Current Period but unfortunately was last reset August 29 (new phone transfer feature is so good that the old data period copied over which is unfortunate in this case). What I do know though is that the two highest amounts for Current Period 26.4GB were Music 14.2GB and Safari 3.4GB. Based on that it must have been Apple Music.

I don't think it is possible to listen to that much music in an hour, so it must have started syncing all her previously downloaded music that was on her old iPhone (maybe was flagged in the phone transfer feature) and if that is case why would iPhone wait to be on Cellular instead of doing it on WiFi? She did tell me she paired her new iPhone to Bluetooth in car so only thing I could think is that launching the music app triggered the downloads of offline music that was on her old iPhone (I don't think she went into the Music App before pairing with car). I have got her to turn off Cellular data for music off now but still have her data off in Telus account so I can examine the settings later. Fortunately is end of month so only 5 days left and can make data remaining work for all of us hopefully. Telus rep said if go over they could probably throw a couple gigs on for free if I called.

Has anyone else experienced this? If this is the case, maybe Apple should mention this when restoring a new iPhone.

 

[Packers1958]

This is one reason why I never backup to the cloud. I always backup my phone through iTunes on my iMac. So when I upgrade, all 35 GB of my music transfers from iTunes to my phone.

 

[gigapocket1]

You have cellular data for music turned on... and also have the setting to download music over cellular.

 

[gigapocket1]

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[1rottenapple]

I bought a new iPhone for Xmas gift for my Wife.
Yesterday I setup on WiFi using the transfer feature.

Today she goes out and an hour and 15 min later I get a text from Telus saying that I used 75% of our 40GB shared data. By time I login to account I notice it is now 86% and notice her phone used approx 10GB. I shut off data to all our phones.

I did get a screenshot of her Current Period but unfortunately was last reset August 29 (new phone transfer feature is so good that the old data period copied over which is unfortunate in this case). What I do know though is that the two highest amounts for Current Period 26.4GB were Music 14.2GB and Safari 3.4GB. Based on that it must have been Apple Music.

I don't think it is possible to listen to that much music in an hour, so it must have started syncing all her previously downloaded music that was on her old iPhone (maybe was flagged in the phone transfer feature) and if that is case why would iPhone wait to be on Cellular instead of doing it on WiFi? She did tell me she paired her new iPhone to Bluetooth in car so only thing I could think is that launching the music app triggered the downloads of offline music that was on her old iPhone (I don't think she went into the Music App before pairing with car). I have got her to turn off Cellular data for music off now but still have her data off in Telus account so I can examine the settings later. Fortunately is end of month so only 5 days left and can make data remaining work for all of us hopefully. Telus rep said if go over they could probably throw a couple gigs on for free if I called.

Has anyone else experienced this? If this is the case, maybe Apple should mention this when restoring a new iPhone.

I turn off cellular data for music, podcast, YouTube. I have 5 gb lol.

 

[PCtoMAC1]

I bought a new iPhone for Xmas gift for my Wife.
Yesterday I setup on WiFi using the transfer feature.

Today she goes out and an hour and 15 min later I get a text from Telus saying that I used 75% of our 40GB shared data. By time I login to account I notice it is now 86% and notice her phone used approx 10GB. I shut off data to all our phones.

I did get a screenshot of her Current Period but unfortunately was last reset August 29 (new phone transfer feature is so good that the old data period copied over which is unfortunate in this case). What I do know though is that the two highest amounts for Current Period 26.4GB were Music 14.2GB and Safari 3.4GB. Based on that it must have been Apple Music.

I don't think it is possible to listen to that much music in an hour, so it must have started syncing all her previously downloaded music that was on her old iPhone (maybe was flagged in the phone transfer feature) and if that is case why would iPhone wait to be on Cellular instead of doing it on WiFi? She did tell me she paired her new iPhone to Bluetooth in car so only thing I could think is that launching the music app triggered the downloads of offline music that was on her old iPhone (I don't think she went into the Music App before pairing with car). I have got her to turn off Cellular data for music off now but still have her data off in Telus account so I can examine the settings later. Fortunately is end of month so only 5 days left and can make data remaining work for all of us hopefully. Telus rep said if go over they could probably throw a couple gigs on for free if I called.

Has anyone else experienced this? If this is the case, maybe Apple should mention this when restoring a new iPhone.

Sorry, but damn that’s funny!

 

[Peepo]

I confirmed when got home that she has around 10 GB of Music downloaded to her new phone, which is coincidentally the same amount of cellular data she used.

Reason we have cellular turned on for data is so can play the odd song if away, but was not intended to sync the entire library or even full albums.

So I learned something new and hope can help someone else... after a restore, make sure to open the music app and verify Downloaded Music and that it has downloaded songs to your iPhone on wifi before you venture out (or turn off cellular data for music the first little while to be careful). Apple does not mention this.

 

[purged]

Not with default settings.

 

[Jimmy James]

Sorry for this experience op. Good info to know.

 

[Peepo]

Default settings wouldn’t allow this, only streaming over cellular is enabled. It’s always good to try and adhere to defaults as much as possible, instead of trying to go through every setting thinking you’re being advanced.

I agree but for some reason cellular download was turned on. I keep restoring to new iPhones over the years - maybe settings change, new features added and also easy to forget over time.

I just checked on my own iPad Pro and iPhone X and both had cellular downloads enabled but I don’t remember a reason why I would have turned that feature on ever. They are all off now though. I also did not remember iOS automatically re-downloading all my music for me in the past after a restore, and instead I had to download songs again manually after upgrading.

 

[nicho]

Reason we have cellular turned on for data is so can play the odd song if away, but was not intended to sync the entire library or even full albums.

You're probably aware of this now but for anyone else reading, there's a separate setting for streaming vs downloading. There's 0 need to enable cellular data for downloads to be able to play the odd song if away.

 

[colonelbutt]

Sounds like a decent swap