Unlimited data plans are so expensive that most of us have to live in fear of exceeding our monthly smartphone data allowance. But with our 17 simple ways to use less mobile data on Android, you'll never have to worry again. Check them below.
Here Are 17 easy ways to dramatically reduce your mobile data usage on Android
1. Turn off automatic updates for apps. These updates can easily drain most of your data – or even all of it if you have many apps installed.
TIP You can also choose to control which apps update or set them to only auto update when you’re connected to Wi-Fi. Check Data Sense settings (Windows Phone) and Google Play Store settings (Android).
2. Use data bundles and enjoy the internet for longer. Data bundles let you use data for less than you would have spent if you were using airtime.
TIP You can make a huge saving if you use data bundles. You’ll pay up to R2 per MB without a bundle and as little as 10c per MB with a bundle.
3. Convert your airtime into data. If you don’t have a data bundle, you can convert some of your airtime into data you can use to connect to your favourite services.
TIP Telkom Mobile allows you to disable your data when you run out of data bundles.
4. Use Wi-Fi hotspots wherever you can to save data. Wi-Fi is almost always cheaper than mobile data, and sometimes free.
TIP Your phone or tablet will tell you when you’re in a Wi-Fi area.
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5. Download a data-saving app to help you manage your data usage. Opera (download from Google Play) and Chrome (download from Google Play) have built in options to help you save data while you’re browsing. As a bonus, they’ll even tell you how much data you’ve saved.6. Compress Chrome pages
If you use Chrome for all your web traffic, this tip alone can save you 30-35 percent of your mobile browser data consumption. The Data Saver option compresses web pages before loading them in your browser.
7. Use Opera's video compression
The Opera for Android browser now has a very useful video compression option, which can save you a load of data if you're frequently watching videos on the go. To use it, simply download the Opera browser, go to Settings > Data savings and tick the box that says Video compression.
8. Ditch the Facebook app
It's pretty well known among Android aficionados that the Facebook app is one of the biggest consumers of data, not to mention its high resource use and battery drain. So why not replace it with something less demanding?
9. Make use of offline apps, games and services
Some apps and games require constant internet access to function: this can be simply a security measure or because they constantly need to retrieve data. There are some apps and games that don't require internet access at all after the initial download. Check out the links below for some hints
10. Restrict background data
The easiest way to save data is to tell your apps (or the Android system itself) to restrict background data. Background data is all that internet traffic that goes on when you're not actually using an app: email syncing, feeds updating, weather widgets and so on.
11. Disable auto-updating apps
Another huge drain of your data allowance comes from the occasional bout of Google Play app updating
. If you have the Play Store set to auto-update apps, even over a data connection, this could be chewing its way through your allowance every month without you even knowing.
12. Put some music on your phone
Streaming services like YouTube, Spotify, Vine and other video and music sites are huge data killers. If there's a tune or album you're constantly listening to at the gym or on the way to work, you'll use much less data by loading it onto your phone and listening to it offline, than endlessly streaming it from the web.
13. Identify and limit/remove high consuming apps
In Settings > Data usage you can get a look at the apps which are consuming the most data both in the foreground an
d the background. This can be really useful for knowing which apps you should restrict.
Take Gmail, for example. On my phone, it has downloaded 451 MB of emails in the background. If I felt I didn't use the app enough to justify that much data use, I could remove the app, limit how often it syncs or prevent it from downloading attachments, all of which would reduce data consumption.
14. Navigate offline
Google Maps can use up quite a bit of your mobile data if you're not careful, but thankfully it is possible to use Google Maps offline. Follow our guide and see how much data you could save.
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15. Don't upload, download or send pictures or videosA single minute of high definition footage captured on a modern smartphone can take up as much as 200 MB of data. Single photos can easily exceed 40 MB. Don't even think about uploading these to Facebook, or downloading pictures and videos from friends, unless your mobile data plan can handle it.
16. Make use of Wi-Fi hotspots
Open Wi-Fi networks are a great way to save data when you're out and about. More restaurants and eateries are providing Wi-Fi connectivity all the time and these hotspots are easy to find on your Android device.
17. Share photos, videos and other files via Bluetooth
As we mentioned in point 10, just receiving photos and videos can consume a lot of data. But transfers over mobile network isn't the only way to send files. Thanks to the magic of Bluetooth, you can quickly and easily send relatively large files to others in your vicinity without using any data at all.
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