Why does the iphone use 6gb of data a month?

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Why does the iphone use 6gb of data a month?

Ok, I'm currently under the unlimited plan with Verizon and am due an upgrade. However, verizon no longer grandfathers unlimited plan holders. I use a droid for everything, heavy usage and only use 0.2gb of data a month while my wifes iphone uses 6gb a month. Clearly this makes verizons new plans unaffordable and needless to say the iphones data demand is rediculous. My household only uses 2gb of data a month with cable internet and we stream media and game online consistently. What gives? How in the world does this phone use so much data? I think it's a conspiracy to make the carriers more money

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Posted on Aug 23, 2012 4:56 AM

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iMan87

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Aug 23, 2012 5:48 AM in response to mtbiker247

does your wife watch alot of youtube videos? does she send alot of iMessages (specificly pictures/videos)? Does she completely close the apps or just leaves them in the app switcher?

Are you able to track down which days are the "heavier days"? And try to recall what was done that day...might be easier if you can look at your current billing cycle

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Aug 23, 2012 7:37 AM in response to iMan87

No she doesn't use youtibe but I do a lot. No idea what imessages are. She uses texting and Facebook, that's all.

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iMan87

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Aug 23, 2012 7:44 AM in response to mtbiker247

iOS 5 introduced iMessage and it is basically text/mms between apple devices but using data. To know if its turned on go into Settings->Messages

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Aug 23, 2012 8:05 AM in response to iMan87

Definitely don't have ios 5 as when we updated an ipad2 to it it wipes out everything but I'm familiar because I correspond with other iphone users with my droid that way. Still how much data does yours use? Ahe have to be downloading torrents all say to use that much bandwidth. It's crazy.

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amy_lou

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Aug 23, 2012 9:07 AM in response to mtbiker247

Facebook uses a ton of data. It's constantly pushing

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mtbiker247 Author

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Aug 23, 2012 9:34 AM in response to amy_lou

You're telling me that FB on an iphone uses 3 times more data a month than a house with 3 ipads, 1 tablet, 4 pc's, 1 xbox and a wii plus wifi on the cells. My kids constantly stream netflix and we use pandora and game online pretty much everyday. Yet our usage meter is an average of 2gb a month. This is illogical. Somebody must know the answer.

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amy_lou

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Aug 23, 2012 9:40 AM in response to mtbiker247

That's not what I said. I simply said that it uses a lot of data. Please do not insinuate that I'm stating things I'm not

Is your wife using wifi when she uses her phone? If she were doing so, it shouldn't count against your data plan

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Aug 23, 2012 11:20 AM in response to mtbiker247

You're wife is doing somthing unusual. I stream music for hours at at time, use Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, have my Gmail pushed to my phone and I've never gotten near 6 gigs. I think, once, I almost made it to 4. I think you need have her take a look at what apps she's using and what she's really doing.

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Aug 23, 2012 11:35 AM in response to mtbiker247

Turn off all ...settings>notifications..........Turn off settings>general>network>enable3g/cellular data as a test you will find thats your data usage will be very small...

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

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Aug 23, 2012 11:40 AM in response to iOS Advisor

Turning off all the data won't help identify what is using the data.

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