According to Sprint Paul (who used to be Verizon Paul), Verizon doesn’t have unlimited data plans.
My LG doesn’t even have the ‘Install Now’ or ‘Install Later’ options. And I also am apparently stuck with Lollipop as it says there aren’t any updates for my phone. Mine’s an LG G Vista (VS880PP2).
I don’t mean from Verizon, necessarily. There are providers such as Straight Talk and Metro PCS that will let you keep your phone and your number. And they use the same networks as Verizon and AT&T.
Updates are carrier dependent. If you have an older or less premium model phone, carriers will often stop supporting the software after they’ve had the phone in their coffers for a year or more.
Sometime the phone’s hardware is incapable of handling the updates. Been there, done that, with a Google Nexus phone, no less.
It’s Verizon no-contract and the above may explain why my last update was last December.
I’m betting from context that it’s a plan phone, not an outright purchase. So switching networks is probably not an alternative.
V’s data is pretty reasonably priced, though. Sounds like the OP is on a minimum plan; bump it up a notch for $10.
Once her contact is up, she’s free to switch.
Don’t do that! You could hurt your back when you bend over to put your shoe back on.
::cough cough:: Zipper. 
Last night my phone said it was ‘Updating Offline Areas’. WTF does that mean? All I could see by a search was that it has something to do with Google Maps but it didn’t really explain what an ‘offline area’ is.
Google Maps can have Offline Areas set up where it will save a copy of an area of Google Maps to your phone so you don’t have to be connected to the internet to use the navigation features. It will update the area once a month or so.
In order to fully take advantage of the data savings you also have to have your Google Maps set to Wi-Fi only. I believe that is the default if you have Offline Areas turned on. You can tell by seeing if there is a big Wi-Fi Only in the blue bar above the map.
I must have accidentally hit something then as I didn’t deliberately set up any offline areas, probably because, as evidenced above, I didn’t know what they were. Can I get rid of it?
Click on the three bars in the upper left hand corner, which brings up the drop down menu. Offline Areas can be selected there and then from there you can select update options.
OK, got it. I don’t know how it got there, but I got rid of it. Thanks!!
If you have a budget level handset you really don’t want Marshmallow, at least assuming that your phone didn’t come with a 32G or better internal SD card. Even Lollipop is doubtful. My Galaxy S5 – which is nearly ready to be replaced – came with only 16G internal storage. That includes ROM, OS, apps, space for caches, etc.–in short anything that isn’t a media file. And beginning particularly with 5.0, Android really locks down your ability to move apps to the external card. More or less, only media files may be put there. I have Lollipop myself, but it’s only because my handset is rooted and I partitioned the external card to provide more space for apps, that I can get away with it.