Moving always brings moments of stress but also of illusion, it is generally a change of life with which one is enthusiastic. But there is a catch if you move into a newly built building: the bureaucracy to deploy fiber there is hellish and often leaves neighbors offline for several weeks.
This happened to me, so all the data available on my mobile connection must be compressed to the maximum. If you find yourself in a similar situation (you may have a breakdown, for example), I will tell you all the measures that I have applied so that the consumption of this mobile data does not end with the monthly charges exhausted in a few days or with a big scare on the bill.
So you can “tighten your belt” with iPhone mobile data
The iPhone (which also happens to be our router) because Macs are full of settings that we can change to avoid consuming all the GB of our contract. Here is what we can do if we enter the iPhone settings:
- Under General > Software Update, disable automatic updates.
- In mobile data, disable 4G/5G access for all apps that may consume large amounts of data. Quick recommendations: Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and the App Store (so we don’t automatically update apps when we’re not on Wi-Fi).
Some apps consume a lot more data than you might imagine.
- if you use Twitterin the internal settings of your official client, section ‘Accessibility, screen and languages’ > ‘Data usage’ you have the option ‘Data saver’ so that images are loaded in low quality and videos or GIFs are not are not read automatically.
- You can also prevent videos and GIFs from autoloading and playing on Telegram. You have the option to disable this download in the Telegram settings section > Data and storage > “Automatic media download”.
On Mac, when using iPhone mobile data, you also need to disable macOS automatic updates from System Preferences > Updates. In the Mac App Store Preferences, we can also disable the automatic updating of applications.
Apple Music or Spotify can also help you: you can download the playlists you usually listen to so you don’t have to use data every time you do it. Of course: do it when you can connect to a Wi-Fi network.
And more generally, avoid having too many open tabs in the browser that you use Keep only those that are necessary, closing any videos or advertisements that play automatically. Keep in mind that many web pages automatically reload content, so just opening them can consume data. If you do all of this and dose content consumption, you’ll keep your data at bay.
