Cellular Data Surge

[Justim]

After installation of iOS 6 I've encountered a giant surge in data. I went from using around a gig most months, to using a whopping 5GB last billing cycle.

I installed iOS 6 on June 12th, and my billing cycle begins on the 16th of every month.

The previous months data used are:

Jan 2012 - 1.4GB
Feb 2012 - 1.2GB
Mar 2012 - 0.6GB
Apr 2012 - 2.6GB
May 2012 - 0.7GB
Jun 2012 - 1.4GB
Jul 2012 - 4.7GB

I haven't used FaceTime irresponsibly or used my hotspot more than usual.

When I received my 90% usage notification, I contacted AT&T. The tech support lady told me the largest chunk, 1GB, was transmitted July 13th at 9pm. I looked back through my iMessages and it revealed I was packing for my upcoming move while at home on wifi.

Last night I supposedly transmitted 184MB while I was asleep and on wifi.

Has anyone else encountered a large surge in cellular data on iOS 6?

AT&T and I are monitoring my usage. Basically whatever happens this month will be given a free ride if this goes haywire. If I transmit 184MB every 12 hours, that's 11GB in one month charging me $60 in overages!

 

[rtolboom]

I had this on my iPhone (running 5.1.1) nobody knew the cause but reinstalling the OS worked. Perhaps reinstalling will fix yours too?

 

[Zcott]

I had this too. Set up as a new phone to fix.

 

[Tiptizzle]

A co worker had an issue with an email she tried to send that had failed. It was continually trying to retransmit and failing.

 

[GooMan]

I have seen a huge increase in data usage on iOS6 as well. I'm on an AT&T "unlimited" plan and got a text saying I would be throttled if I go over 3GB again. I've never gotten close to the soft cap prior to this.

An odd thing is I've been checking my usage with the AT&T iPhone app and the amount of data it says I'm using is different than what I see if I check cellular usage in settings on the iPhone. It's actually off by a good bit.

 

[Wilson1313]

I have a similar issue, although I have unlimited data. My wifi is usually on at home, and have not streamed any videos, but I have streamed "some" music over wifi. Yet my usage shows 381 GB received and 48.4 GB sent (I've had this for under a month and yes, you read that right). Any ideas?

 

[fortheus]

This is scarry. Keep us update what's the cause. I don't think I have this problem but will keep monitor it from now on.

Thanks for the info

 

[Jack Dangers]

This is happening to me too. All of a sudden my data spiked this month. I'm halfway through my billing cycle and I'm at 3.7GB when I've never used more than 3GB in a month. I'm still on 5.1.1. I think it's the new podcast app since it's the only thing I've changed recently.
I've gone back to Stitcher as of this morning. Will report if any changes.

 

[BFizzzle]

mine too! att is being fishy im telling you.

 

[applebro24]

Wow, over 4GB in three weeks, more than double what I normal use. No signs of throttling from Verizon which has occurred in the past.

My guess would be 3D maps but I'm not sure...

 

[Jack Dangers]

Is anyone else using Apple's new podcast app on a regular basis?

Reason I ask is that like I previously mentioned, I'm not on iOS 6, but I'm still getting the data spikes and I was thinking the podcast app was the culprit.

 

[wherewuz]

Is anyone else using Apple's new podcast app on a regular basis?

Reason I ask is that like I previously mentioned, I'm not on iOS 6, but I'm still getting the data spikes and I was thinking the podcast app was the culprit.

Yep, this. I had this happen, and I thought it was iOS 6 related too. Deleting the Podcast app resolved the problem.

I really don't think the Podcast app is ready for primetime. It's slow, it crashes, and worse, it blew through two $30 AT&T 3 gig data plans in five days. Really shoddy work by Apple here.

 

[Tiptizzle]

I've been using the podcast app, and I have not had any unusual data usage.

 

[Jack Dangers]

Update:
Deleted Apple's podcast app, and data consumption dropped immediately.

Seem like I'm back to normal usage.

 

[Daddyos]

All of the above

I first noticed the problem after blowing through 400MB when activesync churned with an email it couldn't send. I shut that down. Noted other jumps in usage that I thought might be related to Find My Friends. The app Dataman shows that iCloud is consuming an unreasonable amount of data. Then today I started to listen to a Podcast that I'm sure I had already loaded to my iPhone thru iTunes. Nonetheless it quickly gobbled 50MB of data, 40.7 for "Media Server" plus 9.3 for Podcast. At the moment I have data turned off. Not sure what I'm going to do next. My prior data usage had consistently been below the 200mb allowance. I had considered upping to a 3GB plan but after hearing the stories in this thread feel better just leaving cellular data off until ios6 is updated.