How to save Gigabytes on the phone? Here are 5 simple tricks that will allow you to save Internet on your mobile.
If a few years ago 5 GB of Internet on the phone were enough to surf freely, today the offers proposed by the various telephone operators guarantee unlimited Gigabytes or maximum thresholds of 100 GB per month. There are also solutions that allow you to save on the monthly subscription by choosing options reduced to 10 GB, 20 GB or even 50 GB per month.
How can we make ourselves sufficient for these thresholds for the entire month? There are tricks to be put in place to save data on your mobile and to have enough Giga active for the entire month. Let’s see how to do it together.
How to save Giga on your mobile
Very often people are away from home for work or study reasons and need use the Internet on their mobile to communicate with their parents, colleagues or friends even while on the move.
In recent years, with the explosion of WhatsApp and social networks on smartphones, various offers from various mobile telephone operators have also sprung up to use Internet on the mobile phone.
Among the offers available there are monthly subscriptions that offer unlimited calls, free messages and even Gigabytes sufficient for the entire month. However, for those who want to save on the subscription price, it is possible to opt for Internet thresholds reduced to 10 or 20 GB per month by adopting some tricks to save.
5 tricks to save Internet on your phone
The first thing to do to monitor Gigabytes consumption on the phone is to download the application of your telephone operator. This way, through the app, you can keep under control all the thresholds of the subscription activated on the SIM.
At this point we come to reveal the 5 Internet-saving tricks on your phone.
- If you use Facebook, for example, you can block automatic playback of videos when you have activated mobile data: in this way consumption will be significantly reduced.
- As far as Web pages are concerned, the advice is to activate data compression and therefore use less GB for loading Web pages.
- Another important precaution is to disable automatic backup of any application: these are data-intensive mechanisms. To make backups, you can take advantage of the power of your home Wi-Fi.
- Automatic updates are also among the operations that waste most of the mobile data available on the phone. Therefore, f you have activated the automatic application update mode it is good to mark "only with Wi-Fi".
- Finally, a last tip to consume less internet on your phone is to avoid watching for too long streaming video or movies and TV series without having activated the Wi-Fi.
Other "rules" to keep in mind to save on Giga
In general, if you can count on a home Wi-Fi network, it is best to use it as much as possible when you are at home, by turning off the data connection. Even in places like Starbucks and other public spaces that offer the ability to connect to Wi-Fi, you can take advantage of this tactic.
Contrary to what one might think, keeping the GPS of the smartphone active does not affect the consumption of Gugabytes that much. However, the use of applications such as Google Maps, which use the network to download maps in real time and guide the user in his movements, can actually have an impact on the use of the data available every month.
To get around this problem, you can use a Wi-Fi connection to download the portion of the map you are interested in offline, so that you can retrieve it at any time without connecting to the data network. Just using the default map view (without switching to the heavier ones, like the satellite map) is also a good way to limit the consumption of gigabytes with certain applications.
