Most popular Android apps that drain your data without any benefit.

Your biggest concern when using the internet may be getting high speed to access websites and electronic pages faster. But in reality, this is not enough. If your internet package is limited, you may struggle at the end of each month to preserve the remaining part of it. However, there are many applications on your phone that consume the internet significantly, even without much importance. For example, automatically loading videos on some social media sites can be very annoying, while you may not need that at all. So, if you are looking to reduce internet consumption on your phone to save data, here are the most popular apps that consume your data and how to prevent them from doing so.

When using the Facebook app on your phone, you may come across various types of posts in your timeline, including videos. The problem is that videos are loaded automatically, meaning that all videos on the home page will consume data whether you want to watch them or not. You can simply click on the video you want to watch. Videos may also be displayed in high quality, which will increase data consumption. Fortunately, Facebook allows you to control this by turning off auto-play for videos and adjusting the display quality. Here’s how to do it.

For the Facebook app, click on the menu icon at the top left of the app, select settings, scroll down to media settings, click on it. Here you can control the video playback quality and sound options, change image quality, and control autoplay for videos. It is advisable to turn it off completely so that only the videos you want to watch are played. As for the web version of Facebook, the steps are quite similar but instead of media settings, you will find video settings.

There is no doubt that the YouTube app is one of the most data-draining apps because it specializes in showing videos only, and the videos are of very high quality, up to 2160p. So, if you have fast internet, videos may be played in high quality automatically, leading to a rapid depletion of data. Another unfavorable aspect of YouTube that contributes to data consumption is autoplaying videos without sound on the home page. You can control these aspects and turn them off through the settings.

To do this, enter the YouTube app, click on the profile icon at the top right, then click on settings and choose general settings. Here, you can enable the option to limit mobile data usage, which broadcasts high-quality videos automatically. You can also control the autoplay of videos on the home page. Similarly, if you use other video streaming apps, search for quality and autoplay settings and turn them off to save data.

Twitter, the popular social media platform, also auto-plays videos, which can consume a lot of data without benefit, especially if you use Twitter frequently. You can easily turn off video autoplay by entering the app, clicking on the menu icon at the top right, selecting settings and privacy, choosing accessibility in the general section, and changing the video autoplay option to never. You can control more data-related settings on Twitter under the data usage option in the general settings.

Instagram can be considered one of the most data-consuming social networking apps because it specializes in pictures and videos, which are loaded in high quality and preloaded to play immediately when you scroll through the app. You can reduce data consumption when using Instagram by turning off pre-loading of videos. To do this, enter the app, click on the profile icon at the bottom, then click on the menu icon at the top right, and at the bottom, you will find the settings icon, click on it to access the settings, then select the account, and use data options, here you can activate data saving feature and control media quality. You can allow high-quality media only when connected to Wi-Fi or turn it off completely.