i live in a rural area, so my household internet has a 100GB cap. Lately, I’ve been blowing past his limit, and I realized that my iPhone SE is partly to blame, as it is downloading about 1-2GB per day. iOS isn’t helpful at tracking non-cellular data use, so I downloaded an app called “My Data Mgr”. It’s app-specific tracking hasn’t worked well, but it’s at least allowed me to monitor overall wifi usage. I can see that about once a day, my phone downloads about 1GB within a single hour, see attached image for a good example. For a while, this seemed to be happening at about the same time of day every day, and I even managed to catch it in action. I could watch as my phone pulled in about 1-2MBps for about 15 minutes without any obvious culprits.
I’m not streaming much content on the phone, maybe one or two podcasts per day and some light Facebook usage. I do have 2TB of iCloud storage which I figure is a likely culprit. I’ve turned off iCloud Drive and iCloud backup, but I haven’t tried turning off iCloud photos yet as it looks like it would remove all my photos from my phone, and downloading them again would take a chunk out of my monthly data allowance. But 1GB per day seems like a ton, I’m not taking anywhere near that many photos and videos on a regular basis. Could the data traffic just be from thugs getting shuffled around as iCloud “optimized” the storage on my phone?
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
I’m not streaming much content on the phone, maybe one or two podcasts per day and some light Facebook usage. I do have 2TB of iCloud storage which I figure is a likely culprit. I’ve turned off iCloud Drive and iCloud backup, but I haven’t tried turning off iCloud photos yet as it looks like it would remove all my photos from my phone, and downloading them again would take a chunk out of my monthly data allowance. But 1GB per day seems like a ton, I’m not taking anywhere near that many photos and videos on a regular basis. Could the data traffic just be from thugs getting shuffled around as iCloud “optimized” the storage on my phone?
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
