Facebook App vs. Your Mobile Data Plan
I wanted to re-blog this post by Craig Daniels. He just saved me money by telling me how to turn off the constant running videos on my smart phone Face Book app.
Every month I get the dreaded text that I am running out of data. My pea sized brain could not understand why. Secondly, the constant running videos on Face Book were so annoying and I never thought that they were using my data up!
If I would have stopped and just thought about it I am sure that it would have come to me.
So here is a second chance to read his post again just in case someone missed it the first time around.
What mobile data plan do you have? 1GB or 2GB perhaps? So you hate it when you get your bill and there is that “overage charge” because you crossed the quota line even by a fraction.
Well here’s one culprit that you may want to put right into jail – the Facebook app. Have you noticed how many videos are in your newsfeed? Seems like more and more lately! And Facebook decides for us that auto-play is a better user experience. Well on a phone that is not on a Wi-Fi connection, all those frames of playback in a video equates to more mobile data download bytes. Facebook mobile app by default has auto-play videos set to ON. Ah-ha moment! Turn the setting to auto-play off (or only on Wi-Fi and you won’t get the added hit of data usage from this.
In order find this setting, follow the instructions on this facebook help page to get it set how you would rather have it!
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