iMessage use data on LTE?

[macness]

I feel like the biggest idiot. I have an unlimited text messaging plan but I leave my iMessage on 24/7. Does that mean that when I'm not in a wifi area that my iPhone uses my LTE dat for
iMessage? ******! I feel like an idiot. Most of my family has iPhones so my phone automatically reverts to iMessage when I text them. Have I been using data the whole time? What do you guys do

 

[vsuri]

I feel like the biggest idiot. I have an unlimited text messaging plan but I leave my iMessage on 24/7. Does that mean that when I'm not in a wifi area that my iPhone uses my LTE dat for
iMessage? ******! I feel like an idiot. Most of my family has iPhones so my phone automatically reverts to iMessage when I text them. Have I been using data the whole time? What do you guys do

iMessage does use your data plan.

 

[ProudLoz]

It most definitely uses data, but the amount of data it uses per message is so small, you shouldn't see it accumulate by a lot unless you're sending thousands of iMessages.

You'll only see it eat up your monthly data allotment if you're sending a lot of pictures through LTE. That will definitely eat it up a bit faster than regular text based iMessages. You should be fine though.