How To Reduce Your Mobile Data Usage

The rate at which we surf the web these days is
becoming higher than ever. Also, the speed at which
data plans are disappearing is something to talk
about. You will not want your MB to be wasted or
consumed without giving you your desired results. In
light to this, everyone wants to cherish their MB.
What measures are you putting in place to reduce
your mobile data usage?
Of course you might have your individual data saving
strategy but you need to apply the ones outlined
here. Feel free to adapt these tips for the specific
data consuming apps you use frequently or your
particular usage habits. No matter the methods you
use, if the following five are not put into practice,
then you haven’t started yet. Here are the five easy
tips you need in order to save your MB:
1. COMPRESS CHROME PAGES
Let’s say you are using Google Chrome browser to
surf the web all the time, compressing the pages
alone can save you about 30-35% percent of your
data consumption for your mobile browser. Chrome
pages compressing, which is now known as Data
Saver in the settings, enables all web pages to be
compressed before they are loaded into your
browser.
Although Using Data Saver does come with its own
disadvantages, one of which is slowing things down
a little bit, you need it to save data usage. You don’t
need to worry about the speed as you’ll sooner or
later get used to it. To see your data savings record,
all you have to do is to just launch Chrome browser,
tap the three dots in the top right hand corner, and
scroll down to Settings then to Data Saver. Watch the
graph always to notice how your data savings grow.
2. DITCH THE FACEBOOK APP
For android users, Facebook has become one of the
most used apps, leading to loss of data and even
draining of battery. To save your data, replace it with
an alternative app such as Tinfoil for Facebook which
is simply a web app that displays the Facebook
website. Even the Facebook Lite which we are made
to believe reduces data consumption by 50% is not
recommended because it still wipes hundreds of data
monthly.
3. RESTRICT BACKGROUND DATA
Surely, if you tell your apps or your device itself to
restrict background data, you’ll have done a great
favor for yourself. Features such as email syncing,
weather widgets, feeds updating etc. are examples of
background data that you should disable because
they use your data even if you are not actually using
them.
In light to this, you can also adjust some settings on
your smartphone to restrict background data in
Settings > Data usage > Restrict Background Data. If
you want to adjust the settings for a particular app,
go to Settings > Apps. Note that this depends on the
particular version of android you are using. To change
your sync settings for Google services, go to Settings
> Accounts > Google > select the account. When this
is done, all you should do is to simply uncheck the
services you don't want syncing automatically.
4. DISABLE AUTO-UPDATING APPS
Google play apps updating is yet another factor that
drains your MB. If you set the play store to
automatically update apps, your internet subscription
data will be wiped out without you even noticing it.
How then do you disable auto-update apps? To do
this, simply go to the Play Store and have the left-
hand navigation drawer swiped out. Open the
settings and there is Auto-Update Apps at the top,
then tap it. Ensure that it is either set to ''Do Not
Auto-Update Apps'' or “only over Wi-Fi.” For individual
apps settings, go to My Apps, choose the app you
want to disable and then tap the overflow menu to
check or un-check Auto-Update.
5. SAVE RATHER THAN STREAM
If you are always streaming music and videos from
Streaming sites such as YouTube, Vine and other
video and music sites, then you are in for drastic data
consumption because online streaming consumes
data more than you thought. The best option for you
here is to always download these files (music or
videos) to your device.
You can also save the music for offline listening, if
you are not the type that likes stuffing music or
videos on your microSD card. Take note that if you
can reduce to the least minimum your online
streaming attitude, then you will save a lot of data
usage and your subscription will last for you.

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