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melapple

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Aug 29, 2013
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On my iPhone 5 over the past couple of years I've had iOS 6, 7 and now iOS8 but for the past 3 or 4 days I've seen an incredible amount of data being used by system services under cellular in settings. If I click System services I see that the culprit is iTunes accounts which I'm not even sure what it is linked to.

Today, I was disconnected from wifi for just about ten seconds and saw that iTunes accounts went from 200kb of data to 16MB:eek:
Granted, all the settings have been the same I had before experiencing this. i.e. no automatic downloads or updates and no iCloud without wifi

Anyone has any suggestion to fix this? Please, I am at a loss here
 

eekcat

macrumors 65816
Apr 5, 2010
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On my iPhone 5 over the past couple of years I've had iOS 6, 7 and now iOS8 but for the past 3 or 4 days I've seen an incredible amount of data being used by system services under cellular in settings. If I click System services I see that the culprit is iTunes accounts which I'm not even sure what it is linked to.

Today, I was disconnected from wifi for just about ten seconds and saw that iTunes accounts went from 200kb of data to 16MB:eek:
Granted, all the settings have been the same I had before experiencing this. i.e. no automatic downloads or updates and no iCloud without wifi

Anyone has any suggestion to fix this? Please, I am at a loss here

Not that it directly addresses your issue, but just to pile on - I had a similar issue, but with Time and Location services eating up a LOT of data. Oddly enough, that problem disappeared when I moved to my 6+ (off of a restore from my 5S).
 
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