How to turn off app downloads on mobile data

This is how you can turn off mobile data for a particular app. From now on, these apps will be able to connect to the internet only when you use Wi-Fi. Of course, you can undo it and allow access to cellular data whenever required too.

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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. This Thanksgiving,. The battle just got real. As you can see in the image above, the Apps consuming the most amount of data are appearing at the top of the list.

To see more details, tap on the App that you are interested in. On the next screen, you will be able to see the Data used by the App for Foreground and Background activities.

As you can see in above image, Twitter is using more than 2 times the data for Background activities as it does for its actual active usage foreground activity. Just like Twitter in above case, you may come across other apps like Facebook and Skype consuming a high amount of Cellular data for background activities. Here's how you can disable apps from using cellular data on iPhone. Once done, you'll be able to cut down a lot when it comes to data cost.

Given the current state of the smartphone, we tend to use a lot of apps on the go, while some choose to go against the idea, citing different reasons for their choice. And then there are users who want to use apps, but only when the need arises, with said users keeping their cellular data off to conserve as much as possible on the cost front.

Quite frankly, not every user has to do such a thing, and there are other ways you can save up on data. For instance, you can disable certain apps from accessing cellular data, and they'll only work once you're connected to a WiFi network. Sounds neat doesn't it?