Have you ever experience waking up one day, access your internet but you're not able to because you ran out of data on your plan? I'm sure you do! Well, we're gonna provide you three simple and clever ways on how to keep track of your mobile data usage and save it!
To have an internet access is now a necessity for mobile phones. You can get online updates (eg. Facebook, weather, news, etc) watch videos, stream music, play games, download apps, do a research for your homework and more. But what will you do if your service provider does not offer unlimited data or internet? How will you keep track of your usage and avoid paying more to get extra data.
1. Use WiFi
As much as possible, if you are on a hotspot (eg. at home, Starbucks, McDonalds, etc) use WiFi connection to go online. When using WiFi, you need to ALWAYS make sure that your mobile or cellular data on your mobile phone settings is turned OFF cause it is useless if you are connected to WiFi but your data is on at the same time. A lot of people does not know that when you have data turned on even if using WiFi it would still increase your data usage therefore leaving you 0 gigabyte left on your plan.
2. Restrict software or application updates
Most of the time, the applications that you have on your phone will only update if you are connected to WiFi. But, there are still no guarantee that ALL of your apps are not using your data for the update. To stop this from happening, you just simply need to turn OFF your mobile or cellular data on your mobile phone settings so it will not be consumed whenever you do not use your phone or access internet.
3. Always monitor your data usage
For sure, your service provider gives you an option or a way to check and keep track of your data usage. Either they send you alerts or text notification about your data balance or you log in to their website for you to manage your account and check it. Knowing your data usage is the best way to pay less and get more. You may also use this DATA CALCULATOR to have an estimate of your data usage.
Upon monitoring your usage and you think you exceeds to the current data plan that you have, you may consider having an upgrade which is more cost effective rather that adding more or extra data. You may also need to limit yourself to download apps or stream videos if you notice that you almost exceed your data limit.
So just follow these 3 clever ways to save mobile data usage and you can definitely do more and enjoy more on your cellphones! If you have any questions, you are free to leave comment. Good luck!
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