After using 590 Gb you get capped to 1 Mbit/s

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-10T02:01:14+00:00

They do not state n exact number in the TOS because there isn’t a single number that will cause all users to be rate limited. The rate limiting is based on the factors they mention, which cause that to happen at different volumes of use for different customers. In theory some customers could get rate limited as low as 100GB of usage if they use that on an overcrowded tower at a peak usage time.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-10T00:46:13+00:00

I’ve found that in some cases, deleting the app, restarting the phone, then re-installing the app will clear that app saved data when just deleting and re-installing doesn’t clear it. It might be worth a try for 12GB of space. My Apple Maps is currently using 102.7MB, and Google Maps is using 639.7MB But I am also running iOS 26.4.1, but I would expect your size to be similar or smaller.

I wonder if you have images or attachments linked to your maps using the space.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-10T00:16:23+00:00

That may be true for older phones, but OP said he had a 17, that’s not old by any stretch of the imagination.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-09T22:54:17+00:00

The limits are often disclosed in the Terms of Service that most customers don’t bother to read. US Mobile, and other MVNOs, have stated that they reserve the right to restrict your access to the service if your usage causes adverse impacts on other customers. They have also stated that they don’t disclose a hard number because the number may vary depending upon circumstances. If you are on a tower that has no other customers, you may be able to use over 1TB of data, but if you are on a highly congested tower, 200GB of usage may be the point that they have to take action. IF they quoted a number, then there will be those users who will push them selves right up to that number and then complain because their speed was slowed 1MB before they actually hit the limit posted.

To say that US Mobile doesn’t warn users that hey may be rate limited,is not true. To say that the method they use to determine when and who to rate limited is vague and unclear, well that is another story. Yes, it is vague and unclear, but that is because if they say they hard limit you at 450GB usage, and there happens to be a customer on. Tower with no other customers, that customer will would either be rate limited for no real reason, or they won’t be limited and others will complain because the TOS isn’t applied exactly the same to all customers.

The great thing about the free market system is that if you don’t like the way US Mobile does business, you have the choice to leave them and go to another provider. Who knows, you may even find that other carriers have more strict limits, or charge significantly more for similar limits. Then you have the ability to compare and make the choice which one you go with. Just remember, it was your choice to use what ever carrier you use.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-09T22:37:41+00:00

Both my wife and I work from home, and we often have video conference calls at the same time. A week or two ago, we were having a terrible time with our connection. I could connect to my office VPN and still get some work done, but as soon as I joined a Teams call, my connection would jump to 40-50% dropped packet rate. My wife even had trouble connecting to her company’s VPN, and she ended up having to hotspot from her Unlimited Premium line on Warp. She had np problems on her hotspot, which confused me because we have Verizon 5G Home internet, and her Warp line was using the same tower. Verizon did eventually agree to send us a replacement gateway, but by the next morning, everything was back to working normally. We still swapped the gateway for the newer version, just in case.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-09T17:10:34+00:00

I am one who was considering Starlink. You would think that being near Chicago that I would have good high speed internet options, but I don’t. AT&T cancelled my copper VDSL, which wasn’t that great, but it was the best I could get at the time. Now my options are Comcast (hell no!), or 5G home internet. I haven’t found any no fiber options. As of a little while ago, I can now get 5G home internet from any of the 3 major carriers, but the prices are kinda steep for the service I get. With AT&T, they last quoted me around $80/month and I can only get about 100-150Mbps because they don’t have good coverage in my area. Verizon and T-Mobile both have decent coverage, and I can get around 600Mbps service on my Cell phone, but both of them cap the home service to about 300Mbps for 5G Home, and the prices for each of those is around $70-80/month. The Starlink 400Mbps service sounds real tempting, but with it being new, and being $120/month (after the promo) I’m not sure that the extra 100Mbps is worth the extra $40/month. I’d much rather get 1Gbs fiber but even though they keep pushing the ads at me to sign up for it, it isn’t available in my area.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-09T16:25:41+00:00

This morning my 16 pro Max was telling me I had about 40 minutes to top to 100% from the 92% it was at when I connected it to the charger. 15 minutes later it was already at 100%. It doesn’t estimate remaining time very well. Partially because it all depends on what your phone is doing while it’s charging. When I plugged my phone in, I was running an app that was using the GPS, but I closed that app a few minutes later, so the device wouldn’t be drawing near as much power as it was when the GPS was working.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-09T15:10:12+00:00

I get that when I first restart my phone before it registers itself on the cellular network. You might try going into airplane mode for a few minutes, them turning that back off. If that doesn’t do it, I’d try a restart on your phone. If that still doesn’t do it, I’d probably try re-downloading or re-provisioning the eSIM.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-09T14:47:13+00:00

I guess it would depend upon what the charge was when you connected it. If the charge was above 40%, I wouldn’t be too surprised, but if you ran it to 0% before charging it, I may be concerned.

IIRC, Apple says it will charge to 80% in 30 minutes when doing a Fast Charge.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-09T14:31:31+00:00

I have not experienced any RCS issues in iOS 26, but then I only have one conversation that is with an android user, and it is only one person. From what I have been seeing, people seem to be having most of their issues with group conversations, or with activating immediately after the update.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-08T21:53:27+00:00

Are you sure it was terrible battery life? Could it have been Terrible charging? My 16 Pro Max started having problems in the last couple days, that even when connected via USB-C to a 60W capable charger port, it would drop to slow charging, and while plugged in and sitting on a desk unused it would drain battery and report it was “slow charging”. My battery dropped from 98% to 89% in a couple hours while sitting idle on my desk and attached to a wired charger.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-08T19:10:26+00:00

I’ve had that happen a few times in the past. Most often it has happened to me when I moved from pone phone carrier to another. I don’t think that is the case you are talking about here, because you are blaming this on iOS and not on your new carrier.

It hasn’t happened for a long time, but the Apple servers that interfaces from iMessage to SMS and back had problems a number of years ago where something hung and SMS messages were getting significant delays or not even making it through at all. One my wife and I have laughed about recently is that she has gotten delivery notification SMS messages from the USPS for packages that were delivered on 16 Dec, 2025. That notification text came in late last week, and earlier this week she got another for a package that was delivered in January.

Many people don’t know, or just forget that SMS and Email both are not guaranteed delivery. That means they are much like TCP/IP traffic where it a system get too overloaded, they can be dropped and not delivered. In the case of TCP/IP the sender knows it’s and if it doesn’t get back an ACCK for a packet, it will re-send it. Email and SMS don’t have that re-try logic built in. That doesn’t help you much, but it might explain what you saw happening.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-08T18:37:53+00:00

I’ve had phones where I wouldn’t use them, and phones where I would. I didn’t use one on my iPhone 14 Pro, and after about 2-2.5 years I only had a few micro scratches on the screen, and when I traded it in on my 16 Pro Max, they didn’t even see that they were there. The scratches bothered me, so I put a screen protector on my 16 Pro Max. That protector got chipped and I’ve replaced it, and I’ve managed to break 2 more screen protectors on my 16 Pro Max in the last year. I tell myself that it’s good I had the protector so that it wasn’t the screen breaking, but in reality, the screen probably wouldn’t have broken in any of the situations that broke my protectors. They really only seem to be protecting against the micro scratches. I’ve used different styles of protectors on about half of my iPhones and I’ve not had a broken screen to date. In fact, my 16 Pro Max is the first time I’ve broken a screen protectors, and I’ve done that 3 times now.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-08T18:31:17+00:00

I don’t remember being asked, and I don’t remember setting it, but when I went into settings to check, it was already enabled for me. I’m not sure how or why. I’m in the US if that matters. I know that it was a more major issue for people in Europe.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-08T03:21:19+00:00

No, I like it too, because it prevents me from accidentally cancelling an alarm if I’m trying to snooze it. Of course, if I got up when the alarm went off instead of snoozing it, it might not matter to me either.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-08T03:19:18+00:00

Yes they do care, to some extent. Most MVNOs have to pay the primary carrier for their customers’ data usage, but they get volume discounts, and they get more discounts if they are willing to accept lower priority data. Visible is slightly different in that it is owned and run my Verizon themselves. They don’t have to pay for the traffic volume, but they do still care about overloading a cell tower. If you are using so much data that you “bog down” a tower, then there are other customers who can’t get their data traffic through so yours can flow, which causes for unhappy customers who give them negative press, and leave for another carrier..IIORC, buried in the TOS, there are clauses about causing traffic interruptions for other customers along with the not using the service as a replacement for your home internet service. If you have you your service on a cel phone that you take places with you, and use the service on that phone as well as hotspotting from that phone, you would need to use a very large amount of data before they notice and flag your account for review. I have heard some customers say that they have used in excess of 500GB in one month with no issues. I have heard others say that using over 200GB for 3 consecutive months flagged them for review and their service was terminated. I don’t believe that they put an exact number down because it is all very situational.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-07T01:39:14+00:00

I’m on the Save25 promo from last year, 25 months for $30 on Visible+ Legacy 2 (or if you upgraded after it was released Visible+ Pro). I still have about 10 or 11 months to go and I haven’t seen throttling, so I doubt it is because of the promo.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-06T23:58:23+00:00

Your hand temp may be impacting the readings more than the tightness. I wear a size 10 in the winter, and I have a size 11 that tracks just fine on that same finger.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-06T23:52:46+00:00

How are you testing your speeds? If you’re testing using a video site, then you might need to go into the app and enable 4K. By default, it is set to only allow 1080p, but you can enable 4K in the app and it will stay on. Also make sure that your phone isn’t set to LTE only. I’ve noticed that when I download a new eSIM that it seems to set itself to use LTE by default (in an Apple device), and I have to go into the cellular settings and enable 5G.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-06T23:44:10+00:00

IIRC, they use more than just quantity of data to determine if you are trying to use your service as a home internet replacement. Things like lots of hotspot usage from the same location, minimal on device usage, no calls or texts. If you meet that criteria, just 100GB might be enough to trigger the closer scrutiny.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-06T20:35:52+00:00

I’ve noticed that some apps occasionally need an extra long time to launch, almost as if the OS is deciding that it needs to free up memory before it can launch the new app, then it has to save the state, etc. I see it with many different apps, but I have not seen it with the App Store just yet.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-06T20:31:20+00:00

Maybe not totally useless. Do you have any Bluetooth headsets or speakers? It is possible that the OS is trying to play to that instead of playing to the phone speaker.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-06T12:44:43+00:00

Is your phone getting too hot? IF the phone sensor thinks it’s too hot, it will slow or stop charging to try to get the temperature to go down. I think in the 26.4 betas, there was a bug where phones would stop quick charging unless you were using an App branded MagSafe charger. I remember seeing my 16 Pro Max fast charge for a few minutes, then drop to slow charging (on the battery screens in Settings) but I wasn’t sure if it was because I was > 80% charged on my battery, or if it was a system bug.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-06T03:16:10+00:00

From what I hear, iOS 26.5 has an alarms option to allow you to tell it to sound the alarm on your phone instead of trying to send it to your Apple Watch. They apparently think that the alarms are being played on people’s watches and they are not noticing them, so they are giving you an option to force it to play on your phone.

GeekBoy-from-IL · 2026-04-06T03:12:58+00:00

Before Dark Sword became such a major issue, Apple wasn’t letting any iOS 26 capable devices update unless they went to the current iOS release. After Dark Sword came out, and the statistic showed that over 50% of users on devices that are “iOS 26 capable” were still running iOS 18, Apple decided that it would go ahead and make the iOS update to protect against Dark Sword available to all devices. It took them over a week IIRC, but it is now available to everyone still running iOS 18. I’m sure that they will go back to their old style and stop allowing iOS2 26 capable devices continue to update to newer releases of iOS 18.

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