How to know how much mobile data each application consumes

Mobile data consumed

Currently, few or almost no application that we have installed on our smartphone does not require data to be able to use it. For some it is a necessary requirement without which the application is meaningless, as can be the case of messaging applications.

However, we can also find games, above all, that require an Internet connection, to know at all times that they are not being done. traps through third-party applications. These types of applications do not usually spend a lot of data, still it is always interesting know how much mobile data each application or game spends that we have installed.

If you are still one of those users who spend the month with 1, 2 or 4 GB, it is likely that at some point, in the middle of the month or even earlier, you have received a message from your operator informing us that the data bonus is about to end. At that moment, cold sweats run through our body and we are about to pass out.

We quickly start looking for solutions to be able to stretch the few megas that we have left until our billing cycle ends, with all that that implies, since the power to enjoy our Twitter or Facebook account while we are on the bus on the way to work, while we wait for a doctor's appointment, while our son leaves from school or simply while we have a quiet coffee.

When we receive this message, it is most likely that any application has been hooked for a certain time and has devoted itself to unnecessarily consuming our data rate, despite the fact that we had previously configured it so that at no time it made use of mobile data, especially if it is applications that are responsible for making a copy of our photos and videos in the cloud. In this case, Google Photos is one of the applications that causes the most displeasure in this regard, despite the fact that we configure it so that it does not use the data to make a backup copy of our photos and videos.

How much data do the most famous apps spend

smartphone data consumption

As I have mentioned above, depending on the type of application that we regularly use, it is likely that the consumption of our data rate will be more or less high. The applications that allow us to store a copy of our reel in the cloud, be it Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and others can be a real problem for our rate if we do not deactivate their use through the data. But they are not the only ones. Here are some examples of the Applications that consume the most data:

YouTube

Despite the fact that in recent years, Google's video platform has been improving and updating the VP9 codec in order to reduce data consumption, this is still quite high. For a video of approximately 4 minutes, at a resolution of 1920 × 1080, putting ourselves in the case that consumes the most, the data rate will be reduced by 70 MB. If we reduce the resolution to 1280 x 720, enough to be able to enjoy YouTube videos from a screen as small as the one offered by the mobile, consumption is reduced to 38 MB.

Netflix

Netflix has become the world's leading video streaming platform. When it began to offer its service through mobile applications, the consumption of 10 hours of content represented 4 GB of mobile Internet. Nowadays, thanks to the new compression codecs it is possible enjoy up to 4 hours of streaming video at a rate of 26 GB.

Spotify

Spotify offers us three formats when it comes to playing the music from its music service: 96 kbps, 160 kbps and 320 kbps. The first of all has an average consumption per song of 2.88 MB, the second of 4,80 MB and the third, the highest quality, the average consumption of a song amounts to almost 10 MB.

Pokémon GO

Pokémon Go has been, and continues to be today, one of the most successful games in the smartphone market in recent years. One of the fundamental requirements to be able to enjoy it is to have an Internet connection to be able to interact in real time with other users.

Although at first it seems that our rate could end quickly, nothing is further from reality, since the data consumption that the application does is about 10MB per game hour, a more than reasonable consumption for what it offers us.

Clash Royale and the like

Clash Royale and its respective clones, has become one of the most popular games on all mobile platforms. The only problem that we are going to find in this game is the vice that it causes, since the consumption data of this application hardly affect our data rate. Each game has an average consumption of 300 kb, so if we play about five games every day of a month, the consumption of our data rate will be about 45 MB approximately.

Skype or Whatsapp

Skype was the first platform to implement a system for calls over the Internet, called VoIP, a system that many operators were not willing to offer, since it prevented users from making use of their rates. As the years passed, the operators realized that it was the future and it was silly to block these kinds of calls.

Today Skype is the calling service that offers us the most consumption, a consumption close to 900 kb per minute. This high consumption is due to the quality of the calls, very similar to what we can find when we make a call through traditional telephone lines.

Calls through WhatsApp

Being the most used messaging application in the world, the arrival of calls through WhatsApp was a blessing for many users, since they did not have to worry at any time about the cost of the calls or the minutes that the call lasted. call, as long as our rate was loose enough or we did them through a Wifi network.

WhatsApp, like other functions it offers us, is one of the applications that consumes the most data per minute when making calls, with consumption around 750 kb per minute. This high consumption, only surpassed by Skype, should offer a higher quality of calls than what it offers us.

Google Maps

The data consumption that Google Maps offers us during a journey is zero, as long as we have previously downloaded the maps of the journey that we are going to make. Google allows us to save a large amount of data in this way, especially if we want to use the relief view, which shows us real aerial images of where we are circulating or where we are.

How much data do Android apps consume

How much data do Android apps consume

Know the consumption of mobile data What do the applications that we have installed on our computer do is essential to know which applications they are consuming, and thus be able to solve the mobile data problem. To do so, we must follow the following steps:

  • We head up Settings.
  • Then we select in Use of data.
  • All the applications that have access to our mobile data and the amount of MB they have consumed since the rate began again.
  • By clicking on each application, we can access the options that Android offers us to be able to disable access to mobile data and restrict its use to a Wi-Fi connection.

How much data does iOS apps consume

Prevent apps from using mobile data on iOS

iOS offers us a way very simple and comfortable to be able to quickly manage the consumption of mobile data from our device. To check the data that each application has consumed, we proceed as follows:

  • First of all we head up Settings.
  • Within Settings, click on Mobile data.
  • In the next window, if we scroll down, we will find all the applications that throughout the last reset of the counter, have had access to our data rate, along with the number of MB that each of them has consumed.
  • If we slide the switch, the application will stop consuming data from our rate, so the application will only work if we have a Wi-Fi connection within our reach.

Prevent applications from using mobile data on Android

Prevent applications from using mobile data on Android

Android has never been characterized by offering us simple and intuitive menus, especially when we want to access the configuration options, however, in the latest versions it has improved a lot. If we want to know the amount of data that we have spent from our data rate in each application, we must proceed as follows:

  • First of all we head up Settings.
  • Within the Settings click on Use of data, which also shows the total number of data that we have consumed so far globally.
  • All the applications that have had access to mobile data along with the number of data they have consumed so far.
  • By clicking on each application, it will be shown with total consumption and in the background. To deactivate full access to mobile data, we just have to deactivate the switch Automatic connections.

Prevent apps from using mobile data on iOS

How much data do iOS apps consume?

Apple has always been known for offering a large number of customization options on devices managed by iOS, options that are perfectly distributed by the different option menus. Among some of the options that it offers us, we find the option that allows us to deactivate the use made by Internet applications or games, so that they only connect when we have a connection via Wifi.

This option is very interesting, in the case that I have commented on the applications to create a backup copy of our photos, since this way we will avoid not only saving battery, but also a large amount of data, Especially if we are traveling and we can only charge the iPhone at night. To disable Internet access that some applications have, we must proceed as follows:

  • We head up Settings.
  • Within Settings click Mobile data.
  • In this section we can disable the access to mobile data of all applications together through the first available option, but this is not the case.
  • Next we go down and see all the applications that have mobile internet access and how much data they have consumed.
  • We just have to go to the application in question and disable switch so that it stops showing green which means activated.

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