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Why is there a 100MB download limit over cellular?

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nouveau-apple

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Sep 29, 2014
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Umm, I'm trying to download a 200mb app from the App Store over LTE when this came up:

"This item is over 100MB.
Monument Valley will not download until you connect to Wi-Fi."

Wait.

But we have the iPhone 6.
Isn't LTE supposed to be faster than Wi-Fi?
It's 2014 and we can't download over 100MB?

Ok.
 
Its not speed related but size. Its there to protect data quotas.
 
Personally, I wish this feature could be disabled in settings or something, but I think it's useful to prevent people from unwittingly blowing through their data allotment.
 
I wish they let us at least choose for our selves. Android has no limit. I have unlimited data, quit holding my hand Apple, I'm a big boy now.
 
I wish it could be disabled too! My Verizon LTE is WAY faster than my home wifi. This has been one of the things that's drove me crazy coming from android. Needs a setting to turn off somewhere.
 
I honestly don't know why thy do this. The carrier makes money off of people going over their data limit. Kinda seems stupid from the carriers point of view...
 
richwoodrocket said:
I know that but I thought the carrier could've just told Apple they don't want a limit. Or Apple could've just done it to help the carrier.
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I honestly think it's just a protection for the user. Plenty of people don't even have a concept of how data works. If everything was allowed to download/update over cellular, people would have overages, the carrier would point to the device, and people would come with pitchforks to Apple.

I do agree that an option in settings would seem nice. I assume this is just a settings within iOS that has been there since forever and nobody has bothered to change it.
 
Yes the 100mb limit is annoying. I use a workaround: I almost always carry my iPad (cellular) with me and I use it as hotspot to tether my iPhone if I want to download apps larger than 100mb. It works!
 
Yeah, protect limited data.

It might also act as an incentive (to the developers) to keep their apps bloat free?
 
I don't think it's there to protect the user. It used to be 50 mb back in the day before tiered data plans when everyone still had unlimited. With iOS 7 they upgraded it to 100 mb.

I think it's there to prevent people from sucking down too much data from the carriers.
 
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