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iPhone sending large data to GOOGLE

Hello! On Saturday 28th December, at early morning, I noticed my iPhone is uploading data to somewhere I could not understand. As I am working in the environment, where I have data allowance per day of 1.5gb, I am using Network Link Conditioner and capped my speed at 1200Kbps. Even with this cap on Saturday morning for not so long internet usage, it managed to send 360mb of uploaded data to somewhere, before I managed to log out of network. After that I noticed, every time I log on for internet connection, my phone is just non stop sending some data to somewhere. Of course, if I disable bandwidth cap, it is sending data at greater speeds. Over those 3 days I am trying to avoid using my limited internet with iPhone, but at times when I needed to use it, it has sent like at least 3GB of data to somewhere.... I have enabled Low data mode, Low Power mode, disabled all background app refresh. Disabled all possible tracking within iOS settings I could find. Nothing stops data being uploaded... So I started to dig around, where the heck my phone is sending unknown data.... I managed to find it out with program named - iftop. The program is showing bandwidth per connected IP. The IP it is sending data to is - 142.250.27.207. By looking up who owns it, it is GOOGLE. I do NOT use Google photos and just deleted any google app I could find on my phone and problem still persists without any changes. Could you please elaborate what kind of data my iPhone is sending to google at this quantity? As well I can NOT stop it, and would like to use my phone normally. As I have stated before, I got data allowance of 1.5GB per day. Thanks! P.S iOS 18.2 and iPhone 16 Pro max.

Posted on Dec 30, 2024 10:17 PM

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Posted on Dec 30, 2024 10:28 PM

By default, an iPhone does not store or upload any data to Google or other third-party services unless the user has specifically chosen to do so. For example, if a user installs Google apps such as Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Photos, they would then upload and store data on Google’s servers according to the permissions granted by the user. Similarly, if the user connects to Google services through web links or other apps, data could be uploaded to Google.


However, in the case of corporate, school, or enterprise-managed devices, additional configurations might be applied. Organizations can install management profiles that allow them to control certain aspects of the device, including which services data can be uploaded to. These profiles could potentially allow for the synchronization or upload of certain data to Google or other services, and Apple has no direct control over these settings once the device is under such management. These profiles might also include restrictions or permissions that allow corporate systems to monitor, store, or share data.


Thus, while Apple’s default behavior is to minimize data sharing and storage with third parties, organizationally managed devices may bypass some of these restrictions based on the policies set by the administering organization.



  1. Is this your corporate iPhone? Then please contact the system administrator of your corporate
  2. If it is your personal device, in that case, do you have any profile installed by your corporate/organisation/enterprise/School Management?
    1. Erase the profile added by you If you have installed a profile on your own --> Install or remove configuration profiles on iPhone - Apple ...
    2. Or please contact the system administrator of the organisation who provided the profile to you
  3. If you want to turn on SSL trust for that certificate, go to Settings > General > About > Certificate Trust Settings. Under "Enable full trust for root certificates," turn on trust for the certificate. Apple recommends deploying certificates via Apple Configurator or Mobile Device Management (MDM). --> Trust manually installed certificate profiles in iOS and iPadOS ...


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Dec 30, 2024 10:28 PM in response to __K__

By default, an iPhone does not store or upload any data to Google or other third-party services unless the user has specifically chosen to do so. For example, if a user installs Google apps such as Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Photos, they would then upload and store data on Google’s servers according to the permissions granted by the user. Similarly, if the user connects to Google services through web links or other apps, data could be uploaded to Google.


However, in the case of corporate, school, or enterprise-managed devices, additional configurations might be applied. Organizations can install management profiles that allow them to control certain aspects of the device, including which services data can be uploaded to. These profiles could potentially allow for the synchronization or upload of certain data to Google or other services, and Apple has no direct control over these settings once the device is under such management. These profiles might also include restrictions or permissions that allow corporate systems to monitor, store, or share data.


Thus, while Apple’s default behavior is to minimize data sharing and storage with third parties, organizationally managed devices may bypass some of these restrictions based on the policies set by the administering organization.



  1. Is this your corporate iPhone? Then please contact the system administrator of your corporate
  2. If it is your personal device, in that case, do you have any profile installed by your corporate/organisation/enterprise/School Management?
    1. Erase the profile added by you If you have installed a profile on your own --> Install or remove configuration profiles on iPhone - Apple ...
    2. Or please contact the system administrator of the organisation who provided the profile to you
  3. If you want to turn on SSL trust for that certificate, go to Settings > General > About > Certificate Trust Settings. Under "Enable full trust for root certificates," turn on trust for the certificate. Apple recommends deploying certificates via Apple Configurator or Mobile Device Management (MDM). --> Trust manually installed certificate profiles in iOS and iPadOS ...


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Dec 30, 2024 11:01 PM in response to SravanKrA

Hello! Thanks for reply! I never have used Google Drive or Google Photos. I did have Gmail installed, but I deleted it. As for questions regarding phone - It is my private phone and it does not have any profiles installed to it. I did forget to mention, sometimes it switches and stops uploading and starts downloading something. I just restarted my phone and instead of uploading it is downloading now. And IP which is using bandwidth 17.253.53.207, this one is for apple - APPLE-WWNET. What is that?

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