Different cellphones may have different settings. For Xiaomi smartphone users, follow these steps:- * open SETTINGS * open Installed apps * click on any app you want block internet of * click on Restrict Data usage
Some apps will use background data even if you have background data turned off.(As in they aren't even open or in use, still doing their own thing.) It's pretty annoying.
I agree....the GUI switches are a joke. They are essentially still there at this point to humor all of us. I'm not laughing, though. Reminds me of the taxi scene in the movie, "Police Academy." "This meter lies! It's a lyin meter!" What actually brought me here, was when I "turned off" the huge rack of Permissions to the bundled AT&T app (Transfer & Backup) on one of their Android Go phones (Nokia 3.1A), and watched the app re-enable every single one of them right before my eyes after about 30 seconds. 😲😖🤬
If any of you guys want to completely disable apps when you are not using it(they won't use your ram, data and basically like disabling), in android 9(might be different on your android version) find developer options and set no background apps in background process limit. It will turn off all apps in background and will show you notifications when you open them. Keep in mind that doing this will also block messages from apps like whatsapp, messenger and will reach you only when you open that app. So make sure to open them time to time to check for new messages and notifications.
Is there any way to do this for a specific app? I want to disable background activity completely on certain apps . I've been looking for months for such a feature :/
@@Atul_Bhardwaj I've alread tried but it doesnt work. Furthermore I used Samsungs "deep sleep" function but I still get notifications from whatsapp. It's frustrating that such a simple thing is hard to achieve
Unfortunately, this does not prevent the app from using your mobile data. It simply restricts background mobile data usage. My problem is that I have an app that used 2.09 GB of data in the foreground (probably large images scaled in the app.) But, it only used 0.01 GB in the background. For me, I want this app to give an error if it's not on Wifi rather than allow it to use mobile data while I'm using it in the foreground. Suggestions for that?
Phumudzo Bele Too right! It’s ridiculous that all these little apps are running in the background using up your data, even though I thought they were using my home wi-fi. Netguard is must have download!
I was looking to block certain apps that was using my data, and didn't like that because I have a limited data, but that app is great. Thank you for mentioning it.
Can you plz let me know that how can I do the same thing for my typing App It's name is GBOARD and it's an app of Google but I can't find than option for this app I don't know why?
what i really need is youtube not using any mobile data at all, not just background. When i was at home, my wifi signal fell and youtube started using mobile data...I got hit with a big bill because i didnt know it was using mobile data
How do you stop Android from asking everytime I open an app to turn it on! Android 12! I hate that warning, and from time to time it gives you a popup to quickly turn on. I know it's off, I turned it off! There's a reason for it!!! Please if u know how to turm off those warning messages ⚠️ let us know. Thank you!
Different cellphones may have different settings. For Xiaomi smartphone users, follow these steps:- * open SETTINGS * open Installed apps * click on any app you want block internet of * click on Restrict Data usage
This is pointless without specifying phone as its different on every brand and the manufacturers change interfaces. I have 9.p pie and that menu doesnt even excist
Thank you. I realized recently my data is being used by messanger/fb? I dont understand how that can be when im home all the time and using wifi. I have heard that facebook and messanger have this issue. How do i stop this? I can try your recommendations on this video which i am sure will work but how is messanger using my data if im always home using wifi and everything else uses wifi perfectly. I never had this problem until recently. Thank you
How do you know it's using your mobile data? If you're on Wi-Fi all the time, they wouldn't be. Of course the moment your Wi-Fi breaks, they will keep in contact using small amounts of data to check for messages. But realistically, this shouldn't be enough data to care about, so I suspect the premise is wrong: that's not what's using your data.
Very curious. I'm not familiar with the app, but I would have thought only the operating system has access to that sort of information. Are you video calling people on messenger, perhaps? That's the only feature I can think of that would use data.
In theory, yes, but its possible your Wi-Fi was broken at that particular moment, and it just used your mobile data instead of failing the call. This tutorial will only help will background usage though. Do you have a Settings->Connections->Data usage->Mobile data usage ? If you find Messenger in there, see if there's an option to restrict mobile data usage.
It gives you instructions on how to change setting's to stop that when you open the app. you might have hit the "don't show this message again" button.
this is ridiculous. I could only assume that Android is hand-in-hand with $ervice provider$! I was always able to control *"specifically*" which apps could be used on data and which ones could not. I was shocked to find out my RU-vid was running on data! Already had it turned off in the past, now I can't find how to do it within my system settings. It's ridiculous that I would have to add another app to control that
Big time false advertising in the video title there. Background data usage is negligible and this info is largely useless. Watching it only served to waste more of my data.
Expensive phone but cannot do anything. That's why I'm switching to budget phone such as Xiaomi which is customisable. Every spec is the same but with lower price ~
On an OnePlus phone you can really cut internet connection from each individual app, not just foreground and background. You cut the app from using data.
This doesn't tell me how to stop an app from using foreground data usage. Sometimes i don't notice when my internet goes out while watching youtube, so it just continues playing the videos but using my mobile data without even notifying me.
None of these are true. I turn my data slider off ALL the time, I never use the internet on my phone, and it continually just turns itself back on and costs me money. It drives me mental and no one knows how to turn it off.
I think this helped me, not positive, never went through app usage and what runs in the background . My question would be ; why do they tell us to save on data usage by being connected to our wifi? I don't get the difference, I mean I'm not on satellite , so I would think that when I'm away from my connection I can't be using data, right,,, shrugs...... I did turn off News Alerts though, I imagine that constant data usage will be stopped unless I turn it back on. I figure weather alerts are handy though, I got one the other day and it was quite helpful, plus I looked into the usage and it was really low compared to News Alerts.
Great video; What about Wi-Fi data? Turn on WF and turn off mobile Data. Only use Wi-Fi for updating apps. Only use mobile data in a strong signal. ( No use wasting data for poor reception.)
Mobile data is used in the background when the apps "phone home," which is to say that they are recording data about your phone usage across the entire system and sending it back to Google, Facebook, Analytics services, etc. This is one of the ways smart phones spy on people. Edit: Regarding your second question: compared to using wifi for the same tasks. So ultimately it's in your best interest to download Netguard or another firewall anyway in order to prevent the apps from phoning home via wifi. Understand that your pc internet browsers are doing the same thing, which is why it's important to avoid the use of Chrome and Microsoft Edge, in particular.
@@MakeUseOf Yeah... Google Fi. Has it's benefits and drawbacks. Data is charged at $0.01/mb or $10/gb (free after 6gb). The nice part is if you don't use data, you don't pay for data! While there is still a base charge of $20/month, the max possible bill is $80/month. This might not be the best in terms of an unlimited plan, but if you're normally sticking to wifi for all video watching you won't pay much more than $20/month . I have wifi at home/work so it's very rare I need to watch videos with mobile data unless I screw up and turn wifi off by accident :P Thanks again for your info on NetGuard. I should hopefully never have this problem again, haha!
