Tips to Reduce Mobile Data Usage on Your Smartphone.

Most of the people have access to the smartphones these days and with the competition among the manufacturers, the prices are decreasing and the specifications are upgrading. A majority of the manufacturers are based on  Android OS, as the Android is an open source platform. Now even the low-end devices have the great feature that you can use it for most of your day to day work. Most users use the smartphone for browsing, downloading and uploading, and this consumes a lot of data. When we are at home we can use the internet connected to our homes, but we can’t stay at home all the time. We have to go to work or travel different places and that time we are dependent on the mobile data. But the app installed on our Android devices consumes more data and as we know mobile data package are quite expensive. So, we present you tips to help minimize your data usage. This can help you save you valuable data being used unknowingly.

We will discuss the process that can help you to reduce mobile data usage in your devices. So here is the list below:

1. Use Opera Max

Opera Max encrypts data for all apps on your device when you are connected to a mobile data network, all the server request gets through the Opera server which reduces data usage and allowance for any untrusted application on your Android device. So must download and install this app on your Android to save your data and battery.

2. Chrome Data Saver

Google Chome for Android has an inbuilt feature to minimize the data consumption while browsing which you can activate through below steps.

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• First, tap on the menu button, and then Settings.
• Navigate to Advanced -> Data Saver and enable it.

3. Use Opera Mini

Opera mini is the best option to minimize data consumption on your Android device as it is only the app that uses only required packets of data to browse a page. So must use it in your Android and save your data.

4. Set Data Limit

Your Android smartphone lets you set a specific limit for using data. You can go to Settings> Wireless & Networks> Data Usage and then turn on ‘Set Mobile Data Limit’. Set the limit according to your Data usage, you will get a complete idea of your average internet usage. You can reset the limit every month.

5. Restrict Background Data Usage

If you restrict background data usage in your Android, then all the apps that consume data in the background will not be able to devastate anymore. Moreover, this will save your battery and internet data in your Android. Just follow some steps below.

1. First of all open Settings> Mobile Networks > Data Usage.
2. Now there click on right top three dotted buttons and click restrict background usage.

6. Skip Streaming Content

We love to stream videos on YouTube, but those high-quality videos can really cost you much. So if you are looking for data saving options in Android, then avoiding streaming content would be a handy choice. However, we all know that smartphone without videos are worthless so another option is to decrease the resolution of Videos while streaming.

7. Utilize the Offline Mode

YouTube which is the largest video site now offers Offline video, well; we spend lots of our precious data on Streaming services like YouTube, Spotify, and Vine etc. Most of them now offer an offline video mode. So, make sure to utilize the feature and save the video for offline view.

8. Update Apps Only Via Wi-Fi

We download lots of apps from Google play store, and as soon as we connect with the internet, Play store automatically updates all the apps which consume lots of your valuable data. However, you can stop the auto-update of the apps from Google Play store

• Open Settings from Google Play Store
• Select Auto-update apps and then click on “Auto-update apps over WiFi only“

9. Use Opera Video Compression

Watch more videos on your mobile device, while using fewer data. Turn on video compression in the data-savings settings to prevent videos from stalling. This feature is rare so you must use this feature if you really want to save some extra data.

10. Blocking Ads

 Us Ad Blocker to detects all annoyances of apps installed on your phones, such as Push Notifications, Desktop icon spam ads, and apps with privacy concerns. It identifies the adware and spyware and allows you to then remove it. You can download AppBrain Ad Detector

These are the tips you should follow to minimize your data usage. With the above-mentioned tips, you can minimize data usage and save some money used for the extra data.