Reduce Data Usage On Your Android Device

Android phones usually have too many apps such as games, social media apps etc which are data-hungry applications making it easier to blow through your cellphone plan’s data cap…and incur nasty overage charges. Read below as i show you how to manage your data to prevent increased data usage.

Years ago it would have been almost unheard of to blow through multiple GB of mobile data. Now apps have increased in size (it’s no more uncommon for apps and their updates to exceed 100MB in size), and when streaming music and videos becoming more popular, it’s easy to deplete your data cap in a matter of days.

Watching an hour of standard definition streaming video on Netflix or Youtube will readily and easily chew through a gigabyte of data within an hour and less. Bump that stream up to HD, and the data usage literally
triples–about three gigabytes of data will be used in few hours. Streaming high-quality music over services like Google Play Music or Spotify? You’re looking at about 120MB an hour for that. It may not seem like much at first, but do that for an hour a day for a week and you’re up to 840MB. An hour a day for a month puts you at roughly 3.2GB. If you’re on a 5GB data plan, you just used roughly 65% of it on music alone.

Sure, you could pay more for a bigger plan, but who wants to do that? Before you fork over your hard-earned money, here are some tricks for reducing your data usage (and keeping an eye on it).

How To Check Your Data Usage

You can check your current data usage right from Android by navigating to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Data Usage. You’ll see a screen that looks something like the first screen here:

Click more and select > Restrict background Data.You'll see something that looks like the screenshot below:

This will prevent your background apps from using your data.

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