{"id":8841,"date":"2017-03-15T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2018-05-21T19:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T23:41:51","slug":"apps-secretly-using-phones-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/apps-secretly-using-phones-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Apps Are Secretly Using Your Phone\u2019s Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Odds are, you don\u2019t have an unlimited data plan. Even if a plan claims to be \u201cunlimited,\u201d it usually has a cap on the amount of data that you can use per month. Add to this the number of apps that you may have on your phone that are constantly connected to the Internet. These apps, at a minimum, might include: your various email accounts and social networking apps, a calendar app, a notes apps, a weather app, a maps app, a communication app like WhatsApp, and various Google apps. These apps are continuously updating with new information, which means that they use a lot of data. That\u2019s why, whenever you go abroad, you\u2019re advised to turn off your phone\u2019s data roaming, for example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One way to combat this issue is to use DFNDR\u2019s Accelerate Internet feature. With just a press of a button, this feature will close all apps that are running in the background on your phone that are using your data. This will help to speed up your device, since your device will have fewer tasks to perform. That way, you can experience a more pleasant experience with the apps that you do want to use. Click here to close background apps in order to speed up your device and save data:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"psafe:\/\/launch\/internet_booster\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8340\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Accelerate-Internet-300x78.jpg\" alt=\"Accelerate Internet\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/center><b>Which apps use the most data?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apps that track your location, such as a maps app (or even a social networking app) will use a lot of your phone\u2019s data. Music streaming and social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat can also use a lot of data quickly. If you\u2019re trying to cut back on data usage, then make sure to properly manage these apps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Use Wi-Fi whenever a safe network is available.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are looking to save money on your data usage, then make sure to connect your device to a safe Wi-Fi network whenever possible. This way, you can save your data-hogging apps for whenever you\u2019re on Wi-Fi as opposed to letting them rack up your data usage bill. If you\u2019re severely cutting back on data, this goes for social networking apps and your GPS app, in addition to listening to music and watching videos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out why, and how you can stop this from happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[53,528],"class_list":["post-8841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-internet","tag-speed-up-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18663,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841\/revisions\/18663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}