5 tricks to save data on your smartphone

Data consumption

One of the biggest concerns that many people have on a daily basis is not totally consume or waste their data rate that they have contracted. "Polishing" the data before the end of the month or the billing cycle means spending time without being able to navigate and on many occasions without being able to communicate with friends or colleagues. Most mobile companies, once the data limit of the rate is reached, they reduce the download speed, which in many cases makes it impossible to open a web page or send a photo through WhatsApp.

In order not to reach the limit of our data rate, and that you do not have to have a bad drink for a few days, today we are going to tell you 5 interesting tricks to save data on your smartphone. If you are one of those who quickly consume your data, without even realizing it, this undoubtedly interests you so pay close attention and above all to put all the advice that we are going to give you as soon as possible.

If you are one of those who does not spend your data rate month after month, also pay attention because it is not enough to be cautious and learn to save data because sooner or later the operators will let us select the number of gigabytes or megabytes we want hire for each month of the year and if you are a saver or save on the use of data, your phone bill may be much cheaper.

Keep a close eye on WhatsApp

Whatsapp

Whatsapp it is part of the daily life of most people and is one of the main reasons why our data rate runs out so quickly. Through the instant messaging application we not only send text messages, but we also send photos, videos or even made calls. All this consumes data, a lot of data, which causes our rate to be drastically reduced and at great speed.

One of the easiest ways to save data on your rate is to limit the use of this application, for example avoiding that the photos or videos are downloaded automatically unless we are connected to a WiFi network.

To do this you just have to follow these steps, in case you have an Android device;

  • Access the WhatsApp application that you will have in the application drawer
  • Click on the icon of the three dots that you will see in the upper right part of the screen. Once you have clicked, select the option "Settings"
  • Now go to "Chat Settings"
  • Now you must enter the section "Automatic download of multimedia" and, in the option "Connected to mobile data", we must mark "No file". With this, the files you receive on your device will no longer be downloaded automatically

In the event that we have an iPhone, the steps to follow are as follows;

  • Access the WhatsApp application
  • Now you must access the "Settings" menu that is located in the lower right part of the main screen
  • Now click on the option "Chat settings" and access the section "Multimedia auto-download"
  • Once there, you should pay attention to leaving the "WiFi" option checked so that the files are not automatically downloaded to your device when you receive them

Another way of not wasting data is to opt for the use of another of the many instant messaging applications on the market, although most, unless you put limits, consume a large amount of data.

Turn off data usage in some apps

All or almost all of us have a series of applications that we do not usually use, except in dire need, when we are not connected to a WiFi network. However, many times by mistake we use them consuming in most cases a significant amount of data from our rate.

E.g. Spotify, Instagram or YouTube are some of those applications that we do not use when we are connected to a 3G or 4G network. To avoid those inopportune connections, one of the best solutions is to deactivate those applications when we are not connected to a WiFi network. To do this, you just have to follow the following steps on your mobile device or tablet.

In the event that you have a device with Android operating system;

  • Access the Settings menu
  • Now go to the "Data traffic management" section (or "Network use")
  • Now you must look for the option that allows you to configure the automatic connection of the applications to the network of networks. Usually it is usually "Network applications", although it will depend largely on the version of Android that we are using. Also depending on the customization layer of each manufacturer this option may not be available to our dismay
  • Finally, we will only have to deactivate the "Mobile data" option in the applications that we do not want to connect using our data rate

In the event that you have an iPhone or an iPad, you must follow the following steps;

  • Access the Settings menu
  • Now you must enter the "Mobile data" section
  • Going down the screen you should look for the option "Use mobile data for;" and there we can deactivate the applications that we do not want to spend the data of our mobile rate

Application data consumption

Simple, right? Because this action that very few users carry out saves a huge amount of data every month, so don't waste any more time and do it right now.

Set yourself excessive consumption alerts

One way to know how much data we have used at all times and what is available to us, is set consumption alerts. This option is available on both Android and iOS devices so you have no excuse not to do it.

This option is extremely useful because if, for example, we set a consumption alert when consuming 2 GB of our rate, depending on the day of the month in which we receive the notice, we can take more or less drastic measures to monitor the data consumption of our mobile rate .

To set a consumption alert on an Android device you must follow the following steps;

  • Access the Settings menu
  • Now click on the "Data usage" section
  • If our device is compatible with this function (most with a version of Android that is not too old they are), we activate it and we will be shown a graph in which we can establish a limit for monthly data consumption

Data consumption

If this option does not convince you too much or it is not available on your device, you can always resort to third-party applications such as My Data Manager that allow you to set data consumption alerts quite easily. Luckily or unfortunately, if you have an iPhone or an iPad, you will have to resort to applications to do this as it is not available natively on iOS.

Download the maps you use the most on Google Maps

Google

One of the applications that consumes the most data from our mobile device is without a doubt Google MapsOf course, we always use it as a GPS to try to get somewhere successfully. One way to save this data consumption is by downloading the maps that we will need when we are connected to a WiFi network.

With this we avoid that it is connected continuously when we go in the car consuming the data of our mobile rate.

Any user can download maps on Google Maps to access them without connection to the network of networks, which is really useful in many cases.

Limit the consumption of your web browser

To close this series of tips we cannot stop telling you that you should limit the data consumption of your web browser, which if you use Google Chrome, is something really simple and also useful. As we all know, this is the browser installed natively on Android, but it is also available on iOS, where of course you can also save on the use of your mobile rate data.

To be able to use this function of Google Chrome, you just have to follow the following steps;

  • Open the Google Chrome web browser on your mobile device
  • Now we must access the "Configuration" option (you will find it hidden under the icon of the three dots that you can find in the upper right part of the application)
  • Then we must click on the option "Save data". In the case of the iPhone or iPad, we must first access the "Bandwidth" option
  • Finally we activate the option and we will see that a graph is shown in which with the passing of the days we will be able to see the megabytes that we have been saving

If you use Google Chrome as a browser, do not stop activating this option since it will not pose any problem and you will not notice absolutely nothing when browsing the network of networks, but with the passing of the days you will notice the savings in the consumption of the megas.

Ready to save data on your mobile rate with these simple but useful tips that we have given you?.


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