How do I know if cellular access for my iOS app is disabled?

Question

I have an iOS app that makes some small network requests on app launch (resource updates, etc). If the user turns off cellular access for the app in iOS Settings, they get

Answer 1

There are lots of frameworks out there that will give you the status of your network connectivity, and of course you can roll your own. I've found AFNetworking to be one of the best. It has a singleton class called AFNetworkReachabilityManager that abstracts some of the complexities for you. Specifically you'll want to look at the two boolean properties:

reachableViaWWAN
reachableViaWiFi 

There is also a reachability changed status block that you can set:

– setReachabilityStatusChangeBlock:

AFNetworking Github

AFNetworkReachabilityManager