Can iPhone be set to prefer WiFi connection over Wireless?

If I were to choose to switch to using a smartphone - say an Iphone -- I would want to minimize my dependence on its wireless connection to use its smartphone features -- use its  wireless capabiity to support being a mobile phone and when I'm not within reach of a decent and free WiFi connection particular when I'm at home and have a very robust WiFi network (802.11n).  I would prefer to use Wifi if a connectoin is available in order to minimize how much of my data plan I need to use.  Understand that iPhone5 supports both WiFi and Wireless. Downloaded the Iphone manual and searching  on the word WiFi produced zilch.  Thanks!
Message was edited by: charwingz

I was just trying to make sure we were insync on the terminology so we did not miscommunicate about your question.
With an iPhone you have a lot of means to handle information, not just the usual phone and data and WiFi, but if you have people with iPhones, or iPads, or Mac computers you can all setup accounts (free) in iCloud and communicate by iMessages that do not go through the normal cellular provider data bundle.  They use cell or WiFi and communicate with each other and the messages are not taken out of your messaging allowance.
Also, when you have WiFi available you can use FaceTime for telecommunication with another iDevice, do that with family weekly...great way to communicate.
There are many things you can do that minimize the cellular service charges or limits if you just keep track of how you are connecting with others.

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