iPhone overrides manual carrier selection on iOS26
I'm from Germany and spend my vacation at the dutch border. I know this place for decades. There is German coverage but it's much worse than the dutch. So in the past I just logged into the dutch network. If I went back into Germany I had no coverage, annoying, but I could then switch back manually.
Now several times per day my iPhone switched the carrier back to default. I got this modal which said.
Your carrier Telekom.de is now being used You can choose another carrier or enable automatic carrier selection. OK / Settings
This is wild to me. Is this a iOS26-pseudo-intelligence or is sth. wrong with my carrier settings?