Spike in data use by smartphones

mikeflood

Like since three months ago, my smartphone's data is reaching the 35 GB mark. !!! Never watch movies in it, and beforehand used to be like 5 or 7 GB, any thoughts?

cofty

Wow! You can look in your settings to see which app is using the most data.

I think it's Snapchat that is very greedy.

Simon

Yeah, check the apps for usage. Some apps like Reddit are incredibly greedy. There's also a chance that you have malware that is using up your data so look for that too.

Even 5-7Gb is quite a lot of mobile data if you're not watching movies. 35Gb is kind of insane. Do you not have WiFi enabled and usable?

BTW: many apps have a low bandwidth option - you don't normally need YouTube videos playing in high def on a small screen so throttling that down will save a bit.

Finkelstein

You would have be doing a lot of video (YouTube) and picture transfers on a data plan to get around 35 G.

Its best to just turn on the cellular data transfer on your phone only when you need to where there is no Wifi.

Perhaps calling your Cell service provider, they might have some more information for you ???

joe134cd

Your watching to much porn. Lol. Ok bad joke.

Simon

Perhaps calling your Cell service provider, they might have some more information for you ???

I doubt it, they shouldn't be tracking what things you're using and it wouldn't be specific enough anyway.

You need to look at your device, it could be web pages left running that at downloading things, mining bitcoin, acting as an anonymous proxy for others or whatever.

Your device can tell you what apps are using the data.

Thks for the advice....it is 38 GB now....just for you guys to know, it's like 17 GB Chrome, You Tube 15 GB, WhatsApp 2 GB, Spotify 1GB , and others the rest.... c'mon ...I have a full time job....from here on I think gonna shut off my mobile data when I'm not using it.

Finkelstein

There are so many places that have Wifi running, such as stores, coffee shops restaurants , businesses.

I dropped my data plan on my cell just because of that saving $30 to $40 a month on my service.

Most service providers will still let you transfer text messages with photos without a data plan .

road to nowhere

That mobile data will find things to open, then keep them open, slyly changing settings. You probably got a worm or whatever

incognito2014

I think my son is using your hot-spot. Don't use all my data means nothing to him!!!

Spike in data use by smartphones

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