Does your internet data bundle exhaust rapidly? I guess so. Many people experience this kind of frustration. Both postpaid and prepaid users complain about how a data plan they have purchased just run out from their device.

To most people, there is data saving feature on their mobile phones of which they have turned on. Yet, they spend on internet data bundle more than necessary.

Anytime they switch on their data, they start receiving notifications from almost all the apps on the phone. Then, the next thing is the phone becomes hot while the battery keeps draining rapidly.

When you start experiencing this, it means you have not restricted apps on your phone from running at the background. So immediately you turn on your internet data, all the apps on your phone start to run and that’s a threat to the bundle.

If an app is running on the background, it means you’re not actively using that app. So imagine if you have 20 apps on the phone, and you’re using one; WhatsApp to chat. If you haven’t restricted apps from running at the background, all the remaining 19 will still run.

Briefly, this affects the mobile phone in three ways. This includes battery usage, rapid data consumption, and rapid consumption of RAM and Memory. This can slow down the performance of the phone.

So, how do one turn on the restrict background data feature in order to save internet data bundle?

How to Prevent Internet Data Bundle Draining on Android

1. Go to Settings
2. Select Network & Internet or Connections
3. Tap Data Usage
4. Choose App Data Usage or Mobile Data Usage
5. Select the app you want to restrict
6. Toggle off Background data

Alternatively, you can do it for all apps.

1. Go to Settings
2. Select Network & Internet or Connections
3. Tap Data Usage
4. Choose Data Saver and toggle it on. This will restrict background data for all apps except those you allow.

You can also prevent internet data from rapid consumption using battery optimization feature.

1. Go to Settings
2. Select Battery
3. Tap Battery Optimization
4. Select the app you want to optimize and choose optimize

On iOS, you can do so by Disabling Background App Refresh

1. Go to Settings
2. Tap General
3. Select Background App Refresh
4. You can toggle off Background App Refresh entirely or select individual apps to disable

By Restricting Cellular Data Usage

1. Got to Settings
2. Tap Cellular or Mobile Data
3. Scroll down to find the list of apps
4. Toggle off the switch next to each app you want to restrict from using cellular data

By Low Data Mode

1. Go to Settings
2. Tap Cellular or Mobile data
3. Select Cellular Data Options
4. Toggle on Low Data mode. This mode reduces background network use and overall data usage.