IPhone 5 Roaming Settings

[Happytraveler]

I need to know how I should change my iPhone5 settings when I'm in a roaming area. All I want to do is use my iPhone for free wifi and take pictures. I definitely don't want to be charged roaming fees. Thanks

[vermilye]

pyoung47 wrote:
This is curious. I have att. I thought roaming was dead and gone. Other than intl travel of course.

AT&T still uses roaming in parts of the US for data.

If you travel in the southwest US using an AT&T iPhone unlimited data plan, you will likely get this message: "Offnet Data Usage Data Alert: You have used ___MB of data roaming this month, "X" times the amount in Terms & Conditions..." Their data roaming limit is 25MB per month.

I received this message while traveling in New Mexico - this was far enough north that it was US, not Mexican towers. They changed the AT&T header on my phone to indicate when I was "Off Network", and it was interesting to see how much of the US is still "Off Network".

[wcjeep]

You could also go into Airplane mode, wifi on. Some friends were too close to Canada that all incurred roaming charges.

[pyoung47]

I see what you mean. Good point. Or Mexico.

[jorn]

Right.

Happytraveler, it'd be highly improbable that you'd have any plan with ATT that wasn't considered a nation-wide plan. In other words, no matter where you are in the United States, usage charges are the same. (You have the same voice minutes; the same monthly data cap; the same text allotment.)

Killing the data-roaming, as Smax wisely suggests, is still not a bad idea just in case you venture too close to, say, Canada and unknowingly start slurping data of Canadian towers.

[paulcardoza]

EXACTLY

pyoung47 wrote:
This is curious. I have att. I thought roaming was dead and gone. Other than intl travel of course.

[pyoung47]

This is curious. I have att. I thought roaming was dead and gone. Other than intl travel of course.

[Smax]

settings - general - cellular - data roaming - off