High Data Usage (iPhone 6 Plus)

Same! Somehow I used 1gb within a few days of when my cycle renewed. I sent my friends pictures through cell data, one through iMessage and one through text. Maybe you did that? I'm not a happy camper either.

 

ye i used about 150 mb total on tuesday and wednesday with normal-heavy use and somehow i managed to use 540mb today by only occasionally turning 4g on for CoC and max 4-5 min of youtube, much less than tuesday and wednesday. weird.

edit: upon closer inspection it was youtube that killed loads of data for some reason, ****in 300mb today for 4-5 minutes bloody hell

anyway i don't have an issue sorry for the intrusion

 

This must be the issue I'm having!! At&t has texted me saying we've used over TWO gb of data...and I know it's not possible because I've been careful to use only on wifi.

I think there's an error with this, which is causing excessive data usage. The real question is whether At&t would refund the charges, due to the fact that it's a problem with the iPhone 6+?

 

Same issue on a 128gb regular 6. Phone shows that I've used half a gigabyte in just over 36 hours. Looking at this, "system services" has used 64mb by itself. Apps I've never even opened have consumed a bunch of data. Not thrilled, but I have 11gb on my plan so not going to panic yet.

 

yeap, this happened w me and the 5S.

A big data sucker is facebook, you have to turn off automatic video loading in your newsfeed inside the iphone settings, that helped a lot for me. Also, run youtube directly form safari and not the app

 

I wonder if part of reason might be the fact that the screens have more pixels and therefore need to use more data to display video/pics?

 

An image is the same resolution no matter what screen you display it on, so no, that doesn't matter. Data is not used to actually render the UI, of course.

 

2GB's in less than a week since owning my iPhone 6. When I'm at home, I'm on Wi-Fi (at least that's what I should be, not sure if my iPhone knows that). WTF? we have the 10GB family share plan and I've used close to 7GB's on the month and still have 3 days left and 370MB's away from 10GB limit.

does anyone toggle OFF cellular data when on wifi? I would hate to have to do that and forget to toggle it back ON when I leave home.

 

I normally use less than 1gb a month, I have 3gb on my plan. I just checked and I've used nearly 1gb. 12 days into the billing cycle. I've had my Plus for less than 3 days. Going to be more conscious of turning off cell data at home. Glad I read this thread.

Just thought of something else. Turn off auto updates in settiing/itunes & app store. Manually update when you're on Wifi. Just noticed it auto updated Garage Band yesterday, not something I want to waste data on.

 

If you turn off cell data can you still receive iMessages?

 

as long as you are on wifi

 

I tested a Galxay S4 (for a month) last year.
in 3 days I used 1.8gb of my 2gb plan.

ATT just said i would need to turn off cellular.

for months on my iPhone when trying to splurge I'd hit 1.6gb (in the entire month) and suddenly with the S4 i ate up almost all in 3 days (I was 5 days into my cycle)


Since then I have installed DataMan on my iPhone. it is a nice app and has notification center Widget available too.

I wish my wife's phone could be added and imported into the number since we now SHARE 2gb.

 

welp, I just upgraded to the new data plan. 30GB for the price of 15GB. no need to worry about going over and now able to stream at work with no issues.