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Why does Facebook app override use of cellular data
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FB app is killing me.
Between my phone and my wife's we've eaten up almost 7.3GB of our 8GB quota.
That's after upping it from 6GB to 8GB, a week before the end of my billing cycle.
To put it another way, in one week, where we were just under the 6GB threshold, we chewed up over 1.3GB of usage. Looking at the phone, apps, usage, all signs point to the Facebook app. Neither one of use use youtube and are on wifi most of the time but it seems FB is using cellular. I turned off all notifications on the phone and FB account on my wife's phone, hopefully that solves the issue.
I'm not a happy camper right now.
Between my phone and my wife's we've eaten up almost 7.3GB of our 8GB quota.
That's after upping it from 6GB to 8GB, a week before the end of my billing cycle.
To put it another way, in one week, where we were just under the 6GB threshold, we chewed up over 1.3GB of usage. Looking at the phone, apps, usage, all signs point to the Facebook app. Neither one of use use youtube and are on wifi most of the time but it seems FB is using cellular. I turned off all notifications on the phone and FB account on my wife's phone, hopefully that solves the issue.
I'm not a happy camper right now.
Very odd. Both I and my wife use Facebook a lot throughout the day and have never seen it amount to much as far as our data usage. We are on WiFi here and there (especially at home), but also on cellular quite a bit.
This is exactly why I came to this thread. Background App Refresh is completely off in Settings/General/Background App Refresh. But if I go into fb's actual settings in Settings/Facebook/Settings, the Background App Refresh toggle is set to On without being able to turn off. Anyone able to turn this off??