5 Tips On How To Save Data On Your Smartphone

Your smartphone is indispensable. There are a ton of varyingly data-hungry apps that improve your mobile experience. Cloud storage, audio and video streaming, rich browsing, turn-by-turn navigation and so on can put a heavy demand on your mobile data connection. Fortunately though, it’s easy to cut down on mobile data use without hindering your mobile experience.

Take a look at the following 10 things you can do to save data on your smartphone:

1. 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.

2. Don’t upload, download or send pictures or videos

A 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.

3. 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 and the background. This can be really useful for knowing which apps you should restrict.

4. 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.

5. Compress your data

To save even more on your monthly bill, download a data compression app! While the quality of videos and images may be reduced, you’ll get faster load times within apps connecting to the mobile network. Users of image-heavy apps like Instagram or Flipboard will benefit greatly from these data-saving apps. We’ve listed two of our favorites below: