I am regularily tethering from my phone to my iPad. Basically this works fine — except that, being on wifi, the iPad or various apps treat the data connection as if it was a flatrate. The same would probably apply when being in places, that apply a narrow data usage limit to their connections.
Is there some way to tell and iPad (mini) to consider certain Wifi networks as mobile data connection?
Update: I strongly prefer non-jailbreak solutions. if you know a jailbreak-only solution, please still state it for completeness, but I probably will not use it.
Best Answer
I know from personal experience as an iOS developer and having researched this topic before that it is not possible.
If the developer was savvy enough they can write code that differentiates a tethered connection from real Wifi.
That, however, would be app specific and furthermore unfortunately there is no blanket setting.