Data being charged while on wifi!! Help!
musicmaniac97007

My Data usage has been slowly creeping up even though i ONLY use data while on my home wifi. Does anyone know the solution to this problem?? i better be reimbursed!

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Re: Data being charged while on wifi!! Help!
iPhoneNerd
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Apple has released a Carrier Update, Verizon will drop excess charges.

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musicmaniac97007

And i have iPhone 5

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tikibar1
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There are already several threads about this; here's one of 'em:

https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/880337#880337

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iPhoneNerd
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Apple has released a Carrier Update, Verizon will drop excess charges.

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It has to do with the Iphone 5 running on IPv6. When you go to wi-fi and if the site you are going to is IPv6 capable the phone doens't know to use wi-fi instead of data. I'm not sure if you can shut off IPv6 on the iphone5 but I would if you could until this gets fixed.

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