Which applications eat your data?
Are you anxiously looking at the rest of your mobile plan data, like the rest of your bank account, as you approach the end of the month? You are not alone. We searched and found which applications consume the lion’s share of your valuable data, and what you can do about it – beyond, of course, not using them when you do not have access to WiFi.
The standard application that you open where you wait in queues / sit in public transport / have 5 minutes to kill, makes most people consume more data. To narrow it down a bit, open the application, click the three lines on the top right, then click on Data Saver, and turn it on. What it does do is shrink the size of the photos (you won’t realize it where you scroll) and turn off autoplay in videos, which eat up most of your data.
Another common suspect of data consumption, not only because you open it ten times a day to “fool around for two minutes” but also because he stubbornly refuses to stop playing videos automatically. What you do: Go to your profile, click the tabs at the top right and then Settings at the bottom, select Account and then Cellular Data Usage. Click here in Data Saver, and (sequentially) the videos stop playing by themselves. You can also choose, just below Data Saver, if you will only see the photos in high resolution when you are connected to WiFi, or never.
YouTube
Obviously, an application that does nothing but play video is guilty of consuming large amounts of data. If you are what we call a YouTube addict and you can not resist even when you are out, what you can do is turn off high definition videos when you are not connected to WiFi. Click on your profile on the top right, then Settings, then General, and click on Limit mobile data usage. Once you’re here, before you leave, go back to Settings, press Autoplay and turn off this feature, which never worked for anyone, as soon as one video ends playing the next.
Spotify
Great data consumer, for everyone who walks or drives listening to music. What can you do; Two things: Make lists of your favorite songs and download them to have them available offline. Remember every time you leave the house to put it from the settings (top right on the first page) in offline mode, so that it only plays the music you have downloaded. If you do not have room for downloads on your mobile, another option is to enable Data Saver (first first in settings) which lowers the quality of your music to low and disables the graphics that play in some artists.
Video calls…
Obviously, to make a video call without being connected to WiFi, you will need megabytes – and quite a few. If you can not avoid it, remember that the better the quality of your video call, the more data you consume. The best choice for savings here is Whatsapp (which also applies to voice-only, video-free calls) and Messenger for better data-quality-volume ratio. The best, most crystalline image has the Signal, but it will cost you about twice the megabytes compared to Messenger – for a half hour video call, Messenger will eat you about 200 Mbyte, Signal around 350, Whatsapp about 150.
Look at this trick too…
On Android devices, open the settings, type in the search Data Usage, select this month or last month and you will see how many Mbyte each application consumed in a month. By clicking on each one, you have the ability to “cut” its mobile data, and make it work only when your mobile phone has access to WiFi.
