Analyze your mobile data usage and find out how to make the most of it.
What would we be like without mobile data, right? When we walk down the street, when we are dining in a restaurant or when we go on a sightseeing trip and we don't have a Wi-Fi signal to connect to, mobile data can be a real lifesaver.
But how difficult it is, sometimes, to maintain mobile data at the end of the month. Depending on your data plan and your carrier, your iPhone's mobile data can run out in a matter of a couple of weeks. This is because there are many iOS applications that use a large amount of mobile data without us realizing it.
That is why at iPadízate we have decided to share with you a guide to help you limit the use of mobile data in those applications that seem to suck mobile data as if they were virtual vampires. If you're running out of data too soon, read on to find outhow to limit mobile data usage on your iPhone. It will be very useful to you!
Analyze your data consumption and limit its use in your iPhone applications
We share with you a series of tricks and tips that will allow you to identify which apps and what services are using your mobile data on the iPhone and iPad in order toreduce data consumption. Let's see what you need to do.
1. How to check mobile data consumption
Before knowing how to limit the use we give to mobile data in applications, we must first know the analysis of data consumption to discover which apps consume the highest percentage of mobile data.
Luckily, Apple offers us a detailed summary of mobile data consumption on the iPhone.
Follow these steps to find out what the mobile data consumption of each application is:
1.Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2.Access the "Mobile data" section.
3.From here you will have access to all the information about your data plan and a review of the mobile data consumed by each application you have installed on your device.
Application mobile data consumption panel in Settings.
2. How to disable mobile data for a specific application
Your iPhone has a system that allows users to disable the use of mobile data for a specific application. After having analyzed which applications consume the most mobile data in the previous step, you will now be able to know in which app you should disable and limit the use of mobile data.
1.Open the Settings app.
2.Go to the application settings panel.
3.Open the section of the app for which you want to disable mobile data.
4.Disable the mobile data option.
Additionally, you also have the possibility of deactivating the "Refresh in the background" option to prevent applications from continuing to consume data even if they are closed.
Be that as it may, remember that if you disable mobile data for an application you will not receive messages or other notifications from it, as long as you are not connected to a Wi-Fi network. For example, in the case of WhatsApp you will not receive messages if data is disabled.
3. How to turn off mobile data on iCloud Photos
FromGuidingtechThey recommend a very useful trick to limit mobile data on your devices, and it not only works on the iPhone but on all your Apple terminals.
If you have enabled the option to store your photos in iCloud you can also limit your mobile data usage.
1.Open the iOS Settings app.
2.Access the Photos app section on your iPhone.
3.Next, enter the Mobile Data section.
4.Turn off Mobile Data.
Low data mode of the Settings app.
4. How to activate low data mode
Your iPhone has a configuration option specially designed by the company with the bitten apple logo to reduce data consumption, it is calledlow data modeand it's super easy to activate and deactivate. In fact, you can create a shortcut for it.
Low mobile data mode reduces mobile data usage by pausing automatic updates and background tasks, such as photo syncing.
Here's what you have to do to activate low data mode:
1.Enter the iOS Settings app.
2.Access the Mobile Data section.
3.Click on the Options section.
4.Enable the Low Data Mode functionality.
5. Download multimedia content instead of watching it via streaming
Did you know that if you download multimedia content such as series or songs you will consume less mobile data than if you play it via streaming? This tip is especially useful with applications like Netflix, since downloads of series and movies are quite fast.
In any case, if you are going to leave the house and you know that you will not be able to connect your iPhone to a Wi-Fi network, you can download content before leaving to avoid spending so much mobile data.
So if you usually use apps like Spotify, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix or YouTube, remember, downloads consume less mobile data than streaming.
If you are interested in this topic, perhaps you should consider discoveringhow much mobile data apps like Netflix consume. We hope this tutorial has been helpful to you. What apps use the most mobile data on your iPhone? Do you usually consume a lot of data at the end of the month?
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