Files are synching even when wifi is disabled

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I have an Android phone with Syncthing app and a Windows desktop computer with Synctrayzor. The computer is connected to a modem with an ethernet cable and the phone is connected to the modem’s wifi. I’ve set it up so that when I take a photo with my phone, it’ll be synced to my desktop computer. It works great.

But today I noticed that the photos will transfer although I turned off wifi on my phone, and even turned off the modem’s wifi. I didn’t know this was possible, I thought everything’s syncing through modem’s (w)lan. Should it work like this? Have I maybe set it up incorrectly?

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Syncthing can sync through the Internet which in your case will be via the mobile data connection (unless you’ve disabled it in the Android app settings).

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Oh, right. Indeed, “Run on mobile data” seems to be ticked. I had missed that! Thank you. I’ll need to read more about this - maybe I’ll leave it ticked.

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