{"id":2826,"date":"2013-09-19T21:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2013-09-19T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:19:03","slug":"ios-7-itunes-radio-requires-wifi-by-default-this-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/19\/ios-7-itunes-radio-requires-wifi-by-default-this-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 7 iTunes Radio requires WiFi by default (this is a good thing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_itunesradio_wifi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_itunesradio_wifi.jpg\" alt=\"ios7_itunesradio_wifi\" width=\"240\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_itunesradio_wifi.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ios7_itunesradio_wifi-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The iOS 7 iTunes Radio feature is a lot better than I expected. So far, it has done a good job of auto-building radio play lists even when specifying non-U.S. artists. This is something that Google Music All Access does very poorly in my experience. This is mostly because Google&#8217;s U.S. music store does not have much &#8220;world music&#8221; from what I can tell. Once it became apparent that I was going to use iTunes Radio going forward, I started looking for an option to make sure all this streaming was done only when I am connected to a WiFi network. I couldn&#8217;t find this option.<\/p>\n<p>However, as you can see from the screenshot here, iTunes Music appears to be set by default to only play when connected to a WiFi network. This screen appeared when I paused the stream to run off to a meeting. While walking, I turned on my iPhone to check on my email and noticed the screen shown here (the last thing I did was pause iTunes Radio).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iOS 7 iTunes Radio feature is a lot better than I expected. So far, it has done a good job of auto-building radio play lists even when specifying non-U.S. artists. This is something that Google Music All Access does very poorly in my experience. This is mostly because Google&#8217;s U.S. music store does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,183,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-ipad","category-iphone-apple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-JA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}