I usually blog about my roaming experiences when I travel abroad. Sometimes I have issues, but more recently things have gone very smoothly. This year I did personal day trips to Venice, Madrid and Copenhagen. My roaming experience in these three cities was all fine, so much so, I forgot to blog about them.
This week I was on an extended visit to Sweden. I was planning to be there from Sunday to Tuesday in Luleå, but because of the Nats issue at Heathrow, my connecting flight from Stockholm was cancelled. The earliest flight I could then be booked onto was three days later. I then spent three days in Stockholm.
This was the first international trip I had taken with my new iPhone 17 Pro Max and the roaming experience was seamless.
Before when I would go abroad the process I would use with my phone, was to go into Settings -> Mobile Data and turn off virtually all the apps which could use mobile data. I would turn off mobile data for virtually all my apps and also specifically iCloud Drive and iCloud Backup. I am pretty sure they were the culprits for my excessive data usage whilst in Portugal. This time, as with my recent trip to Netherlands, I only turned off mobile data for iCloud Drive and iCloud Backup.
However with my extended trip I did use 7GB of my fair use limit of 12GB. This is even with decent hotel wifi, and eduroam at my conference venue and in the Swedish airports.