7 Tips to save your mobile data

Due to increase in webpage/image/file on the internet, most users monthly allowance for mobile bandwidth has gotten smaller. Today it is very easy to use a gigabyte in one month which results to inflatable mobile bills. In this blog we are giving you 7 essential tips to control your mobile data or your mobile bills.

Connect to Wi-Fi Whenever Possible

This is a common sense thing. But for the sake of posterity, being connected to Wi-Fi as much as you can is the quickest way to reduce your data consumption. If the places you frequent most—home, work, friends' places, bus stops, train stations, bars, cafes—have open connections, you should hop on those. They're the places you'll predictably pull your phone out at and finding those networks is something you should be conscious of at all times.

Offline viewing/listening

It you watch/listen a lot of music/video on-the-go it will lead to more of a data suck. If you stream something like Pandora or Spotify or YouTube on your device, an hour of music will eat up 50-70 megabytes of data. Here's a solution- unlike streaming video/music, It's a good idea to subscribe to a paid plan of a music/video streaming service and sync your songs/videos when connected to Wi-Fi. YouTube also lets you temporarily download music videos from some record labels, valid for a period of 48 hours.

Use data compression

If you read a lot of online articles on your phone, you should enable data compression on your browser like Google Chrome offers a 'Reduce data usage' setting to make the size of the web pages you visit smaller using Google servers. Opera also offers Max, a free, data-savings and data-management app that compresses videos, images and media from apps and websites to reduce data use.

Be Antisocial

Many of us have been trained to be constantly checking our social networks. Every few minutes, we check our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc., etc. What seems like a fairly lightweight activity can actually consume 5-10 megabytes of data each time you check into one of those services (especially when you're clicking links and photos). Do that a few times a day or pick one or two essential social networks that you have to check frequently over 3G. We are wasting our couple of gigs of data on this alone.

Always track your data usage

The latest versions of both Android and iOS allow you to track data usage for individual apps to identify the ones eating up your data allowance. You can even disable background data transfer (data use when the apps are running in the background to perform some task).

Video chats

Stop the Skyping! And the FaceTiming and all the other video calling -- if you want to save data. Though the rate of consumption varies depending on the app you use and resolution of your chat, a Skype phone call can cost you up to 3.75MB per minute.

Disable Push Notifications

Push notifications can lead to higher data use, especially if you use a lot of interactive apps such as social network clients and messaging services. Many apps push promotional content that is not relevant to you. Latest Android devices and iPhone offer ways to disable push notifications through the system settings. You can also opt to fetch your email manually instead of having it automatically pushed to your phone, which can save a couple hundred kilobytes here and there.