How to configure our iPhone to store mobile data as much as possible

Usually, all the time the operators provide more details for us to use with our iPhone or iPad, but there will always be situations where we want to reduce mobile data usage to a minimum. Another option is to turn on Low Data Mode, but there is another.

How to view data usage

Before we get started let's see how check how much data we have used a certain period of time. We will:

1. We open the app Justification.
2. We're in Mobile data.
3. Down we see different appearances.

Sec The present time it shows us all use since last time we reset the statistics that we are consulting. Below we see Current time (roaming) which, as its name implies, shows us the use of data we have performed outside our operator's country.

Then they appear, uploaded from top to bottom, all use and similar reliability performance. Also, in the lower part of this section, we find out Reset statistics near the last day the inventory items are renewed. If we are going on a trip, for example, or our operator closes the invoices on a particular day of the month, we will want to return the calculations before the start of the period so that there can be a reading of the usage we collect.

Now that we know how to communicate with our data, let's look at what steps we can take to reduce it.

Wi-Fi support

Function of Wi-Fi support allows our iPhone or iPad to use cellular communication where Wi-Fi connection is very poor. We may disable this function by following these steps:

1. We open the app Justification.
2. We're in Mobile data.
3. Disabling it Wi-Fi support.

ICloud Drive Sync

We can force ICloud Drive sync is done via Wi-Fi only disables your access to mobile data:

1. We open the app Justification.
2. We're in Mobile data.
3. Disabling it iCloud Drive.

App Store

In the App Store settings we can make two changes. First, disable automatic app download and updates using mobile data:

1. We open the app Justification.
2. We're in ITunes Store and App Store.
3. Disabling it Automatic downloads Under MOBILE DATA.

And second, configure our device to play videos from the app store only when connected to a Wi-Fi network.

1. We open the app Justification.
2. We're in ITunes Store and App Store.
3. We touch Automatic video playback.
4. We choose Wi-Fi only.

Apple Music

In the app Music we can also make some changes. Turn off high quality broadcasts using mobile data It is one of the most important, because it will reduce the quality of streaming, and therefore data usage, when we use the mobile network to listen to music. Disabling downloads allows us to make sure that the new music we add will only be downloaded over a Wi-Fi connection. Finally we can completely disable the possibilities of listening to music using mobile data, and only accessing previously downloaded music or using Wi-Fi connection.

1. We open the app Justification.
2. We're in Music.
3. We touch Mobile data.
4. Disabling it High quality delivery.
5. Disabling it Download.
6. By default we activate Forwarding.

Pictures

Regarding Pictures an excellent option disable Unlimited regeneration which allows all the photos we take to be updated to iCloud via a mobile connection. One step is to continue to disable mobile data completely in the app, which will force us to go to a Wi-Fi area to update shared photos or albums.

1. We open the app Justification.
2. We're in Pictures.
3. We touch Mobile data.
4. Disabling it Unlimited regeneration.
5. By default we activate Mobile data.

Background update

Background update is enabled our device applications "wake up" from time to time and access their servers

1. We open the app Justification.
2. We're in Normal.
3. We touch Background update.
4. We play again in the middle Background update.
5. We choose Wi-Fi.

Turn off cellular data

The biggest option, completely disable mobile communication and use Wi-Fi points only.

1. We open it Control Center (from the top left of the screen down on the iPhone with FaceID or iPad and from the bottom up on the previous iPhone models).
2. We tap the green antenna button above.

When the button is green it means we have a cellular connection activated, while gray means it's disabled.

Less use, less comfort

Many of the methods in this article allow us to reduce cellular data usage to a minimum, but the question is, can that be? to be careful to minimize application performance.

It's up to us all to do or do the different jobs we were talking about, but, usually, at a rate of 12 or 15 GB per month, they can be all activated except us should bother to eliminate them.