Reduce the consumption of Android phone applications for the Internet and maintain the Internet package until the end of the month
Many users believe that their internet package consumption on their phone, whether they use WIFI or phone data, is due to the applications they use continuously during the month, and these applications consume a huge amount of internet data.
But let me correct this information for you, dear visitor. Some or most applications consume the internet very naturally while you are using them, and this is very normal, but what is not normal is that most applications consume the internet in the background without your knowledge , even if you have already closed the application. This is what we will learn together, which is how to stop internet consumption for Android applications in the background.
How to prevent apps from using the internet in the background
Android phone apps use the Internet in the background without your knowledge
Mobile applications consume the Internet in the background of your phone without your knowledge and continuously, even if you close these applications to preserve your Internet package, they will remain open and consume the Internet continuously and with a huge amount of data that may lead to your Internet package ending before its due date. I am talking here about 4G air Internet packages or home Internet users who use limited Internet packages. As I mentioned earlier, social networking applications such as Facebook or WhatsApp and other applications may consume the Internet in the background of the phone without your knowledge and their consumption is somewhat small, but the applications that may exhaust your Internet package are visual content viewing applications such as YouTube or TikTok, and there are many users of this application now. These applications consume the Internet in the background very much, which may reach 5 GB per month without your knowledge.
Prevent phone apps from using the internet in the background
You may think that consuming 5 GB of internet per month for an app like TikTok or YouTube is a very small number compared to your continuous use of these apps during the month, but let me explain something that you may overlook, dear. Consuming 5 GB or less for someone who uses mobile data and does not rely on home internet is a very large number and an additional cost to the internet package that is renewed every month. Therefore, mobile applications must be prevented from using the internet in the background to preserve the internet package.
Reduce internet consumption for Android in the background
Of course, you can reduce your internet consumption and maintain your internet package until the end of the month through several very simple steps. For example, you can open all the applications that you use continuously throughout the day, which are mostly social networking applications, and go to the settings of those applications, then go to your account settings on those applications and activate the data saving option and reduce the quality of video playback to preserve the internet package until the end of the month, and then prevent all applications that make backup copies automatically without your knowledge and from the phone data more, and also go to the Google Play Store and then stop automatic updates for all your applications to preserve your internet package. I will provide you with an article from Google that talks in detail about the "data saving" mode to reduce the use of mobile data .
Top 3 Ways to Reduce Data Consumption on Android Phones
There are many ways to save and reduce phone data consumption on Android, and I will quickly tell you about the 3 most important ways that can reduce phone data consumption on Android:
First, activate data saving mode on your phone via Google
Google has introduced the "Data Saver" feature to reduce data consumption used by phone applications and services that run continuously in the background, especially if you are using the Internet via 4G. To activate data saving mode, follow these steps:
- Open your Android phone settings.
- Search for Data Saving, depending on your phone type.
Second, activate data saving mode in all applications.
As I mentioned earlier, open all the applications that you use continuously and go to the settings and activate the data saving mode to preserve your phone data, especially if you are using a limited internet package.
Third and finally, stop automatic updates of applications via phone data.
We all know that phone data or limited packages are the most expensive among internet subscriptions, so you must stop automatic updates for applications or install them via phone data by:
- Open Google Play Store.
- Then click on your personal account picture.
- Select "Settings" and then "Network Preferences".
- Select "Preferred network settings for downloading apps" over WI-FI only.
- Also, "Update applications automatically" according to your choice.
- Finally, "Play videos automatically" is also your choice.
How to prevent phone apps from consuming internet in the background
There are many ways to reduce data consumption in the background, but what I will explain to you is to block and prevent applications from using phone data or Wi-Fi in the background completely by following the following steps:
- Go to your Android phone settings.
- Then go to your "Connect and Share" which may differ from one phone to another.
- Scroll down until you find the “Data Usage” option. You can also search directly in the settings.
- All your phone applications will appear. Select from the top the usage date and usage source, for example “WIFI” or “phone data” to know your usage of these applications.
- Choose the app you want to prevent from consuming phone data in the background.
- Scroll down to find something called “Background Data” and under it you will find the amount of data consumed in the background.
- Disable it to prevent apps from using the internet in the background of your Android phone.
Thus, you may have prevented applications from consuming your phone data and package in the background to preserve your Internet package and to reduce Internet consumption in an excellent way. If you encounter any problem in these steps, you can watch the explanatory video above.