How to Reduce Mobile Data Usage on Your Smartphone

Unknowingly, your Smartphone may be eating excessively into your allocated cellular data. Most people believe that nothing else happens when their phone screens are off. Do not be mistaken, your phone is still working in the background even when the screen goes off. If you have been wondering where your data is going, you can be sure that it’s being used by your numerous applications. In such a case, two things or apps are to blame namely, email and data feeds into your mobile phone applications. Below are recommended solutions to such problems:

Ø  Reduction of email data usage

Ø  Reduction of your data feed usage and

Ø  Using mobile data usage app

Let us consider each of these solutions in isolation:

1.       Reduction of email data usage

For starters, you may choose to alter the settings on your phone to dictate how much of the email it can download before deciding if the entire email needs to be read or not. For instance, you may consider changing it from downloading the entire email (attachments included) to only the first few kilobytes. Sometimes the phone opens an entire email that may be of no use to the phone user. Another thing that eats into your data is the frequency with which your mobile polls for email. In other words, it is telling your phone how often it checks if you have any emails. While some people prefer checking every ten minutes, there are others who can wait up to one hour or longer. Whatever the case, just note that more your phone checks emails; the quicker your data gets swallowed.

2.       Data feed usage reduction

You might be having a data feed or two, and you haven’t noticed. You need to pay attention here; if you have any social media site such as Facebook and Twitter on your phone, then you definitely have a data feed. Some even have continuous weather updates or news apps on their phones. In other words, if you have an app that supplies you with real time updates about something, then you have data feed. Your phone downloads all these updates in the background which means that your cellular data gets used. Just like in an email, you can change how often your mobile checks for these updates. Additionally, if there is something you can do to minimize the data each update downloads, the better it is. You can achieve this by checking your phone settings to allow just the first few kilobytes and not the whole thing.

3.       Data usage app

There are so many apps on the internet that can help you solve data issues. Go for a mobile data usage app that meets your particular needs. Start with your app store before you Google others that are in the market today. 

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