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Sad face. Right now, on my iPhone:

"iOS 9.3.5 provides an important security update for your iPhone"

40.5 MB. Great! Tapped "Download and install". It's greyed out. Huh?

Oh, "this important security update requires a Wi-Fi network connection to download". Really? It's only 40.5 MB. Let me decide, please, how I use my data.

Am I missing a setting that allows me to install an important security update on a network of my choosing?

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Yeah, apple needs to fix this. They have been bumping the max app size for non-wifi downloads throughout the years from 10mb to 100mb, but they haven't kept up for the actual security updates.

For extra hilarity, if you have two iphones available, you can use the personal hotspot feature between them and install the updates even though it's all 3g/4g anyways.

Go to https://bugreport.apple.com and request that. The more duplicates they get, the more likely something is to get fixed.

Good call. Done. Also cathartic.

You have to wonder how many iPhones never see a WiFi connection.

Put your SIM card in another (i)phone, make a personal hotspot, update. If you don't have another phone, use a friends' phone and/or data that shares an access point. If you don't have a SIM card, move to a country where they protect consumer rights, so you can change phone without asking your carrier.

(yes, I realize how silly all of this sounds :-))