This new policy is bad. We would always play in the car with my kids by creating a mobile hotspot with mobile data disabled – so just a portable local wifi network. It still works for the ones connecting to it, because they are "connected to wifi", but not for the one hosting the wifi network because android disables wifi to create hotspot. Makes no sense. So we have one fewer device to play on with this update and essentially need a dedicated device just to host the network.
If you want to protect people, maybe add a setting to override this "protection" with some disclaimer about possible expensive data usage if you stay connected to mobile data.
Laura Scarisbrick
This new policy is bad. We would always play in the car with my kids by creating a mobile hotspot with mobile data disabled – so just a portable local wifi network. It still works for the ones connecting to it, because they are "connected to wifi", but not for the one hosting the wifi network because android disables wifi to create hotspot. Makes no sense. So we have one fewer device to play on with this update and essentially need a dedicated device just to host the network.
If you want to protect people, maybe add a setting to override this "protection" with some disclaimer about possible expensive data usage if you stay connected to mobile data.