I'll be overseas around the middle of this year and one option is to just pay $5 per day for data roaming.
The other is to jump onto public wifi and keep the data turned off.
The places I'm going will generally have a good coverage of wifi, so I'm not concerned about being out of range. And generally it's not an issue if I'm out of range anyway.
So my question becomes around how safe is it to use public wifi (mainly hotels) on my iphone?
Websites will tell you to get antivirus and use a VPN, but those websites are trying to sell you antivirus and VPNs, so its a little hard to tell if I actually need it or not.
I've used a VPN in the past (10+ years ago) when spoofing my location to get around the inplay betting laws in Australia. And a lot of the VPN stuff seems to be for getting around location restrictions on youtube, netflix, etc.
Do I really need it if I'm going to just be checking facebook, sending the odd email, and potentially using my internet banking app?
Do I need both (VPN and antivirus), is one better than the other, can I get away with neither?
Thanks in advance.