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Iphone 6 huge data use issue

Posted on 7/6/15 at 5:37 pm
Posted by 756
Member since Sep 2004
14888 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 5:37 pm
I have an employee who has a new iphone6 and it is using 16 gb data every month. It appears either push notifications or some app is running up the data--

Is there a way to find the culprit?
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9397 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 5:39 pm to
quote:

Is there a way to find the culprit?



Web surfing .....
Posted by kengel2
Team Gun
Member since Mar 2004
30938 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 5:54 pm to
Turn off push notifications. Wait until next month, if data is down that was it.

ETA: My LG G3 tells me my biggest sources of data use. Im not sure, but an Iphone should have something similar.

This post was edited on 7/6/15 at 5:56 pm
Posted by Jack Bauers HnK
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
5728 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 7:44 pm to
Settings > cellular has a list of apps and their cellular data usage totals since last stats reset.
Posted by QuiteTheConundrum
Member since Dec 2013
1140 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 7:56 pm to
That guy is reading TD all day. Either that or streaming a lot of video. Never had a background app on ios be responsible for a ton of data drain .
Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George
Member since Aug 2004
78079 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 8:01 pm to
That guy is absolutely streaming video.

No other way to use that much data really.
This post was edited on 7/6/15 at 8:02 pm
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9397 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 8:08 pm to
Dear boss-

I'm not using the phone to surf the web and watch movies while in the field

-Posted from my iPhone6-
Posted by Porter Osborne Jr
Member since Sep 2012
40097 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 8:24 pm to
I was actually just coming to post this as well for my 5. I had an android for years and the wife and I never went over 3 gigs. As soon as we switched over to Iphones we're hitting 10 gigs a month and we haven't changed our usage patterns at all.
Posted by Tortious
ATX
Member since Nov 2010
5143 posts
Posted on 7/6/15 at 8:32 pm to
Porn?
Posted by Veritas
Raleigh, NC
Member since Feb 2005
6324 posts
Posted on 7/7/15 at 9:19 am to
Tell that dude to chill out until on the wifi
Posted by Phate
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2006
11725 posts
Posted on 7/7/15 at 10:49 am to
Have them check apps like facebook, instagram, etc. Those apps default to auto play videos and it will chew up a ton of data. A woman at my office went from 10gb/month to less than 2gb by just turning off auto play.
Posted by Saints72
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2012
473 posts
Posted on 7/7/15 at 1:40 pm to
bad porn habit
Posted by BabySam
FL
Member since Oct 2010
1505 posts
Posted on 7/7/15 at 2:31 pm to
Could it have anything to do with backup settings to iCloud?
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