MLB App Used 30GB of data in 12 hours?!

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MLB App embedded malware?

Yesterday I got an email from Xfinity that we'd used 75% of our 1TB/month data limit for Internet access. In a typical month, we use at most 200GB, so this was just a little bit disturbing. Checking our WiFi router, my wife's iPad had burned through over 600GB of data (download) in a single week. And the data usage looked exponential. (She plays a lot of battery hungry games so she leaves the thing plugged in all the time. Well, what can I do?) When I checked the iPad's battery usage, I can see that MLB is running in the background, even though background App refresh is disabled.

Oh, I saw that before, when iOS 16 came out, *everything* was running amok in the background, burning through a charge in a few days. A hard reset *might* have solved that problem, you never know with Apple, so I hard reset the iPad. Saturday night, my wife watched a baseball game, went to bed after 9pm, but she left the MLB App in the background. Sure enough, MLB ran in the background, using Internet data, until our WiFi router rebooted (and lost sync with the cable modem) after 3am.

There is something seriously wrong with the MLB App. I don't know if it's malware or something else.

Here is Internet usage during the week. She works at least 8 hours a day, so she's not watching baseball on her iPad.

This is battery usage for the last 24 hours (Saturday morning). Why is MLB running in the background, even though background App refresh is DISABLED? And in the middle of the night.

For the last 10 days, MLB had run over 160 hours in the background?

I thought the problem was resolved and told her to go ahead and watch her game Saturday night. She closed the feed and went to bed just after 9pm, but left the MLB App in the background, and who burned through more than 20GB of data until the WiFi router reset and lost sync just after 3am? MLB, almost 7 hours in the background. (Usage appears as SSL data).

At this point, I'm going to remove the App from her iPad until our Internet data resets on June 1st. And then I'm going to make sure she kills the App after she finishes watching the game.

If I can, I'll send a link to this post to the MLB developer. Until then, afmarsh, it's not you! It's the MLB App!

I just checked my cell data usage and noticed that my iPad had used 150GB, which was in single digit GBs 2-3 days ago. I checked the iPad and it's almost all MLB app. I will open a ticket with MLB (and expect NOTHING), but the iPad has been on WiFi at my home almost all of that time. What is going on?

I have submitted a ticket as well, but get the scripted responses - "uninstall and reinstall" and "see our FAQ." It happened again after the uninstall/reinstall. I recently did a factory reset for other reason, so maybe that will fix it.

Lucky for me, I have an unlimited data plan but the battery drain is really annoying.

I had a similar result, also on the mini. Turned off data for that app in settings, have not had issues since, but now I can't use it on the go.