How to Check Which App Uses the Most Mobile Data on Android
Your mobile data pack finishes a week early, but you cannot tell why. The usual suspect is not your browsing — it is one or two apps quietly using data in the background: auto-playing videos, cloud photo backups, or app updates over mobile data. The good news is that your Android phone already tracks exactly how much data every app uses. You just need to know where to look. One or two apps usually eat most of your mobile data. Here is how to find them. How to Check Data Usage Per App on Android Follow these steps. Menu names differ slightly by phone brand, but the path is similar on Samsung, Pixel, Xiaomi, and other Android phones: Open Settings on your phone. Tap "Network & internet" (on Samsung phones, tap "Connections"). Tap "Data usage" or "Mobile data usage". Tap "App data usage" to see a list of apps sorted by how much mobile data each one has used. The app at the top of the list is your biggest data eater for the selected per...