Choose Between Cellular Data and Wi-Fi
There are plenty of good reasons to pay attention to whether your iPhone or cellular iPad is accessing the internet via a Wi-Fi network or mobile broadband. You may need greater bandwidth than the cellular network can provide, or be budgeting data on a low-bandwidth plan or while traveling.
Whatever the reason, you can determine which network you’re currently on and set the type of network to which your device connects. And you can even enable a hybrid mode to tap into cellular data when Wi-Fi is flaky.
Which Network Are You On?
iOS/iPadOS has an indicator in the status bar that shows the active network connection. The range of throughput is huge—from kilobits per second to over 1 Gbps—due to wide ranges ...
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