1161243 - Prompt for cellular data use when cellular data is disabled

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Currently we attempt to load a URL and nothing happens.

Setting -> Fennec -> 'Use Cellular Data' disabled

Attempt to load a site -> nothing happens

We should toss up an alert or something

Comment 1

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

I did some investigation and came across this SO post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26357954/how-to-tell-if-the-user-turned-off-cellular-data-for-my-app. The behavior is that the prompt is shown once/twice and then is never shown after that - even after app restarts.

Also, it was mentioned on the Apple dev forums that a fix for this behavior is available in iOS 9 beta (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22563526/how-do-i-know-if-cellular-access-for-my-ios-app-is-disabled). I'll give this a try when I have my iOS 9 device.

Comment 2

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

Nothing we can do on iOS 8 and it looks like iOS 9 will prompt the user everytime. Closing as WONTFIX.