Until very recently, no one cared about the slightest megabytes that our rate had, but with the passage of time and the appearance on the scene of instant messaging applications or social networks, megabytes have become vitally important, to such an extent that many users already hire their mobile rate based on the megabytes or rather on the amount of gigabytes they offer.
Luckily there are other options besides the one to leave a fortune in a rate with many megabytes, and it is to learn thoroughly how to save megabytes of your rate in a simple way. On many occasions we have functions enabled in our smartphone that consume a large amount of megabytes, we perform absurd tasks and in general we spend megabytes in a very careless way that we undoubtedly remember every end of the month when megabytes are scarce. If you want to save megabytes and do it in a simple way, keep reading because all the advice that we are going to give you will be of great help.
Update apps via WiFi
The applications that we have installed on our smartphone need to be updated from time to time to function at full capacity or improve the characteristics of it. Sometimes these updates take up large amounts of megabytes, so a good way not to waste them is to always update applications through a WiFi network.
Here we show you how to change the parameters on both Android and iOS.
On Android
To change the way of updating applications on a device with Android operating system, access the official application store or Google Play, in other words. Once there, go to Settings and look for the option to update automatically, where you must check the option "Update applications automatically only via Wi-Fi".
On iOS
On Apple devices with an iOS operating system, you must access Settings and then the iTunes Store and App Store, where you must uncheck the "Use mobile data" box.
Be careful with automatic file uploads
Many of the applications that we have installed on our mobile device make a copy in the cloud of some of the images or videos that we are making. If this is done without being connected to a WiFi network, you can end up with the data that our mobile phone operator offers us in just the blink of an eye.
Keep a close eye on Google Photos, Dropbox or even Facebook Since without a doubt, you may be consuming a good number of megabytes that you may need at any time.
Adjust the sync of accounts
In our mobile devices we have synchronized a large number of accounts, email, instant messaging applications or social networks. Both Android and iOS synchronize all these accounts automatically and almost continuously, to inform us through notifications of anything that happens. This goes without saying that it consumes a huge amount of megabytes of our rate.
A very useful way to save megabytes is to eliminate the synchronization of some of those accounts that you do not use too much or to reduce the synchronization time. Something useful, for example, is to deactivate the synchronization of social networks, which we consult almost every so often, and whether or not we are notified of the news will matter little to us because we will discover it ourselves.
To delete or adjust the synchronization of certain accounts, you will only have to access the general settings of the terminal and then access the synchronization settings.
Plan your trips before starting them
One of the applications that consume the most megas are browsers such as Google Maps, so it is very important to plan trips before starting them, and download all the maps and data that we will need for our trip before starting it.
For some time lMost of these applications allow the download of certain maps, and then use them offline. This download of maps connected to a WiFi network will be more than interesting if we want to save megabytes.
Unfortunately, in most cases we regret having consumed all our data after that trip in which we have taken a good handful of megabytes, and gigabytes in the event that the trip is very long. Never forget, the application that consumes the most megas from your phone is undoubtedly Google Maps, Maps or any other browser.
Download files only connected to a WiFi network
It is one of the most used recommendations around the world, but which unfortunately many of us continue to ignore. And is that downloading files without being connected to a WiFi network is an expense of megabytes of our rate that almost no one can afford.
Unless it is essential to download that file, do it whenever you are connected to a WiFi network and thus avoid the unnecessary expense of a few megabytes.
Use offline playback of Spotify, Netflix and YouTube
We increasingly use some streaming services such as Spotify, Netflix o YouTube, which consume a huge amount of megabytes of how many we have available in our rate. Fortunately, these applications offer in almost all cases an offline mode that we should make the most of.
For example Spotify allows us, as long as we are subscribed with a Premium account, to download our favorite music when we are connected to a WiFi network, thus avoiding wasting the megabytes of our rate. In the case of Netflix, YouTube and many other applications of this type, exactly the same thing happens, so keep a close eye on them and always download the content that you want to enjoy later or that you enjoy regularly.
Restrict background data usage
Despite what we all believe a large number of applications that we have installed on our mobile device remain connected to the network of networks to send and receive data without our being aware of it on many occasions. Fortunately, both on Android and iOS it is possible to keep these connections under control and prevent them from consuming a few megabytes, no matter how few.
If you go to the settings of your mobile device and access the applications menu, you can check the megabytes consumed by each of the applications. Within each of them you will be able to see how many megabytes they consume in the background and put a stop to it in a simple way.
Before blaming something or someone, check well the applications that work in the background and limit their consumption to avoid unpleasant surprises.
Use data compression from web browsers
If you take a look at the data consumption of the applications on your mobile device, you will most likely find your web browser in first position. This is because we perform an enormous number of queries every day using Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge o Safari. The good part is undoubtedly that we can reduce the consumption of these browsers, in terms of megabytes, in a fairly simple way.
For some time now a handful of browsers, some of the best known, offer the option to compress the data. This is that the browser itself compresses all the data that it will show in your terminal, in the cloud, and then send it already compressed with what it consumes megabytes to load the web page is much better.
For example, in Google Chrome, one of the most used mobile web browsers, just go to Settings and activate compression in Bandwidth Management. If you closely monitor the data consumption of this application in a few days you will realize that it has gone from having the highest consumption of your device, to being one of the least consumed. According to some reports by Google, data compression in Chrome can save us up to 40% of the megabytes we used before.
Use common sense
Maybe we can give you dozens of instructions to save megabytes, but the simplest is to use common sense on a day-to-day basis. And it is that most of the things that we have told you in this article you already knew, but rarely the applications.
If the data rate that your mobile company offers you does not offer you too many megabytes or GB, use them with common sense and you can stretch it throughout your billing cycle.
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