{"id":359,"date":"2025-02-05T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:19:29","slug":"no-apple-didnt-just-install-elon-musks-starlink-on-everyones-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/no-apple-didnt-just-install-elon-musks-starlink-on-everyones-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Apple didn\u2019t just \u2018install\u2019 Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink on everyone\u2019s iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/Starlink-T-Mobile-Assets-Jan-2022.jpeg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1200\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Contrary to what you may have heard on TikTok, Apple did not just \u201cinstall\u201d Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink on every iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>The short explanation is that the iPhone is <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/01\/28\/ios-18-3-includes-starlink-satellite-connectivity-for-select-iphone-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">capable<\/a> of using Starlink, just like any mobile service provider. More specifically, though, Starlink support on iPhone is limited to a single carrier for customers in the United States for now.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a direct partnership between Apple and Starlink. Instead, T-Mobile is using its 1900MHz (band 25) spectrum to provide additional coverage using Starlink, and the iPhone supports band 25. There\u2019s nothing special in iOS 18.3 beyond supporting the latest version of T-Mobile\u2019s network. Apple itself has not partnered with Starlink in any capacity. <\/p>\n<p>However, if T-Mobile customers want to opt out of using Starlink on iPhone, there\u2019s a way to disable using the functionality.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"iphone,starlink\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"989017\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/02\/05\/apple-iphone-starlink-ios-18-3-update\/#more-989017\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify mb-2\" >Contrary to what you may have heard on TikTok, Apple did not just \u201cinstall\u201d Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink on every iPhone. The short explanation is that the iPhone is capable of using Starlink, just like any mobile service provider. More specifically, though, Starlink support on iPhone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}