Wi-Fi Plus Cellular Option Absent In Final Release Of iOS 6
by Brent Dirks
September 25, 2012
What Apple gives, Apple can take away. The Wi-Fi Plus Cellular feature that first appeared in iOS 6 beta 4 is missing from the final version of the operating system that was officially released nearly a week ago. The omission was first noticed by TUAW.
As our own Bryan M. Wolfe reported on in early August, the feature was designed to help users when their Wi-Fi connection was less than ideal. When the option was chosen, apps that are having problems with the wireless connection used cellular data instead.
The option could be found under Settings, General, Cellular in the beta version of iOS 6. But it is now missing from the released software.
It’s unclear exactly why Apple added the feature to an iOS 6 beta only to pull it before the software’s official release. But it isn’t unprecedented.
In iOS 5, the unreleased panorama mode was available to “unlock” fairly easily without jailbreaking your device. Apple made tweaks to the feature and officially rolled it out with iOS 6.
While I was hoping to get to use the feature, Apple may be simply perfecting it for an upcoming update to iOS 6 or saving it for iOS 7. Carriers may have also objected to the thought of confused customers who enabled the setting wondering why their cell phones bills were so high.
Source: TUAW
