How do you track your WiFi usage? Is there an app?

What is your iphone doing while idle???

I use DataMan to track my 3G usage. One of the interesting things I learned from DataMan was that my iphone is using several MB of data all the time in the background, even when I'm not using it. While I'm sleeping, last night my iphone used 4mb of data each hour. DataMan will show you which apps are consuming your 3G, but not which apps are using your wifi. I would very much like to know which apps are using wifi. Are they sending out my personal data whenever I have a wifi connection?

The other reason I would like to know is I have a FreedomPop hotspot which gives me 500mb of free wifi data per month. This is a great deal, but this data will go fast if my iphone is tethered to the hotspot and it starts sucking up 4-5mb per hour when I'm not using it. Even paid hotsposts have data limits.

If you have DataMan, poke down into your daily usage and then hourly usage and see if your iphone is also consuming many mb of wifi when it's idle. I guess I'll have to buy WifiMan and find out. I would have been nice if the DataMan app reported this information for both 3G and Wifi, since they have the same developer.

Data Usage - app. Free for now. I just downloaded and it seems useful. Tracks wifi and cell data use.

http://dealmac.com/Data-Usage-for-iPhone-iPod-touch-and-iPad-for-free/680501.htm l

>Why do you want to track your Wifi usage?

Because many many people have caps on their home data. Also lets not forget about tethering with cell phones and mobile hotspots, which have extremely small amounts of data they can use.

You are replying to a post made over four and a half years ago.

Also lets not forget about tethering with cell phones and mobile hotspots, which have extremely small amounts of data they can use.

That depends on your contract. Mine is unlimited.

It would be better if Apple itself would launch an app that tracks per app wifi data usage. For example, we work at a cruise ship and we have apple devices. now our internet provider is doing per MB charging to us. It is very helpful if we know where our data goes so we can disable useless apps or disable updates that eats our credits...

yamankak wrote:

It would be better if Apple itself would launch an app that tracks per app wifi data usage.

Why would it be better if Apple did it?

it would benefit a lot of apple device users who relies on capped data over wifi connection. less complains from user trying to figure out where their data credits has gone to...

and why it wouldnt be better for apple?

yamankak wrote:

it would benefit a lot of apple device users who relies on capped data over wifi connection. less complains from user trying to figure out where their data credits has gone to...

So use one of the dozens of apps that do this already.

Absolutely irrelivent and completely useless to the discussion.

Hi. The Status app (by Jiri Techet, not free) from the app store reports total data received and sent since boot. Not perfect, but may be useful.

It's a good question.

I have connected my iPhone to another mobile (hotspot)

The iPhone treated that phone as a wifi and consumed 5GB in one day. Where did they go?

Every month my wifi plan is 10mbps * 60GB .........So i need to and i have to track my Wifi usage.

Is this question still has no answer??
I'm in the same situation...

I'm really curious my data usage app by app on wifi.