Yesterday, I was making a call on my iphone 6 plus on att. I noticed that the phone stayed on wifi while on the call instead of switching down to 4g. Is this wifi calling? I didn't see the words "AT&T WI-FI" or anything like that though which was strange. Is this normal behavior in iOS8?
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odd thing happened when making calls on ATT
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What's the odd thing. You were on Wi-Fi and the phone stayed on Wi-Fi when you place the call. This is normal behavior. The 4g/LTE indicator is never there when on Wi-Fi. ATT doesn't support Wi-Fi calling yet.
from what I remembered, when I accept or place a call, the indicator should switch to 4g (either from LTE down to 4g of from WI-FI bars to 4g) because that's what the call will be placed on.
No, it's always kept the wifi icon if you're on wifi while making the call, and by "always", I mean since the original iOS 1.0 in 2007
The phone only does that if you're not on wifi. Even a Verizon phone which won't normally do simultaneous voice and data will allow you to use the wifi data connection while on the phone.
Here's a fun trick. Turn off wifi and cellular data. You'll have no wifi bars and no 4G or LTE or 3G or anything up there. Just the signal dots.
Then try calling someone. It'll work!