Download Ios Updates On Cellular

To update now tap install.

Download ios updates on cellular. Go to settings general then tap software update. If a message asks to temporarily remove apps because the software needs more space for the update tap continue or cancel. The image shows download install option available on cellular data.

Download and install ios 14 with cellular data. The cellular download cap is actually 100 mb only which means that files with more than 100 mb in size cannot be downloaded using your mobile data or cellular data. Swap the sim card that has a cellular plan to a secondary phone or from a friend s.

Tap continue to download the ios 14. As said above updating your iphone to the new update ios 13 12 will always call for an internet connection so here is the next way to update ios without wi fi and that is updating via cellular data. Apple doesn t allow major ios updates over cellular.

This can work fine since you are using a wifi connection even though it from another phone. Keep one thing in mind here. This is not a technical limitation of cell data or wifi per se but rather a policy limitation though some carriers have limits of how big individual files transmitted over their networks can be.

Connect your iphone to the wifi network. You can update from 10 3 1 to 10 3 2 over lte but not from 10 2 to 10 3. Go to settings general software updates on iphone to download and install ios updates.

As a result this guide is for a tiny percentage of users who do not have access to wi fi plus they own a mac. Make sure to have enough data plan in your device since the updating process consumes a lot of data. Apple has introduced the option to download ios software updates using 5g cellular data on the iphone 12 mini iphone 12 iphone 12 pro and iphone 12 pro max according to a support document.