iPhone 5 sucking data like crazy? What gives?

[fins831]

I just did it and i received about 85kb in 1 min, sent 20kb..

def interesting.

 

[CiFi]

I just did it and i received about 85kb in 1 min, sent 20kb..

def interesting.

Yes if you switch pages back and forth quickly every second, and see an extra kb or 2, then something is constantly pulling data. At that rate you'll us 3.5 gigs this month over "something"

Why should I have to get rid of iCloud in order for this phone to work right?

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If people want to test their phones:
go to settings>general>usage>cellular usage

Reset statistics...then go back a page and then renter the cellular usage. see if it changes every second.

 

[fins831]

I just turned on wi-fi, that way when I am home, which is a good chunk of the month, it won't affect me at home. When I am away from wifi it is something I can deal with.

I just went to ATT website, checked my data over last 4 months, most I ever used was 2 gigs, least was 500 megs....if the cap is 5 gig, I should have no issue.

But this is alarming, I just can't turn off iCloud, I depend on it too much. Hopefully they figure out whats causing it.

 

[chakraj]

my batter lasted 5 hours today!

Sweet, you got a whole 5 hours from a full charge, thats pretty good for an iphone 5. congrats

 

[DDustiNN]

So I'm on a mobile share plan with AT&T with a 10GB limit and there are a few phones...I monitored my data usage on my old iPhone 4 and was using about 150mb in 3 days and a little over 1GB per month.

Now i get the iPhone 5 today with the 4G LTE. I've been playing around with it, just downloading apps and what-not.

I'm currently at 500mb over the past few hours!! That is equivalent to 2 weeks with my iPhone 4! I'm not using this phone any differently...

What is going on here? Is it an iCloud setting? I tried switching "Use cellular data with iCloud" to off, to see if that helps.

Anyone have any ideas?

Same thing happened to me... I was on unlimited, found out I only use about 350 MB per month, so I didn't mind switching to the 2 GB plan... Got my iPhone 5 today, downloaded a bunch of my apps... BOOM, 566 MB. Now I'm paranoid about my data usage. I'm sure it was just a one-time thing though because of the app downloads.

 

[Baumer582]

Yes if you switch pages back and forth quickly every second, and see an extra kb or 2, then something is constantly pulling data. At that rate you'll us 3.5 gigs this month over "something"

Why should I have to get rid of iCloud in order for this phone to work right?

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If people want to test their phones:
go to settings>general>usage>cellular usage

Reset statistics...then go back a page and then renter the cellular usage. see if it changes every second.

Someone already asked this... Are you sending diagnostics to Apple?

I've been periodically checking by data in the last 15 minutes and I've sent 1 KB and received 0... I have iCloud and an Exchange email pushing as well.. Seems normal to me so far, and I came from an iPhone 4

 

[fort]

From what I can tell it is going "online" or receiving data in order to check how much data it has received. If you check every second, yes it jumps every time. If you back out and wait thirty seconds it is only using 1-2 kb when you go back to check. Maybe??

 

[RxMac]

Yes if you switch pages back and forth quickly every second, and see an extra kb or 2, then something is constantly pulling data. At that rate you'll us 3.5 gigs this month over "something"

Why should I have to get rid of iCloud in order for this phone to work right?

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If people want to test their phones:
go to settings>general>usage>cellular usage

Reset statistics...then go back a page and then renter the cellular usage. see if it changes every second.

Yeah, you were definitely restoring from iCloud and downloading apps.

 

[fins831]

Just checked my data over 1 hr, used 75 kb over 1 hr, who knows for what, but thats nothing really.

 

[zbarvian]

I've used a ton of data already too, and it seems wrong because I've been on Wi-Fi for the majority of the time.

 

[deckerbr]

What I did to help cut down on data, was turning off fetch. I had it set to manually fetch mail, and updates. I think the default is every 15 minutes. but that is located under settings --> Mail,Contacts,Calendars-->Fetch New Data
Then at the bottom is where to change the intervals.