How can I save data cost on my smart phone?

Do you use internet on your smartphone and run out of data often? Sometimes, you feel that your usage are not much but you have been excessively charged.

Here, we have examined the common mistakes a smartphone user makes and enlisting tips to save data and money on your smartphones.

When you buy a smartphone, they come packed with pre-installed apps. Examine them and remove if you don't need it. This is because your smartphone will download updates for each of your installed apps and it will cost you unnecessarily. For example, if you don't make any payments from your mobile phone, uninstall all payment apps.

One of the simple and quick way is to just enable data saver mode of chrome browser (or any browser like opera mini or Firefox) and set it to allow compression.

This will help you reduce your data consumption anywhere between 50-70% without any effort. And, the good news is that it will save your battery usage and your phone will stay alive for few extra hours.

Disallow background data on the app which is more data hungry like face-book, twitter or linked-in.

Switch off notification on those apps which disturbs you most often and use it when you need it.

Videos streaming consume a huge amount of data on your mobile phone. YouTube is mostly used on all smartphones. Some of these videos can be downloaded for offline usage. If you have enough storage on your smartphone, use it to save these video files. Next time, you will play them, it will be loaded from local storage and not consume your internet data.

This is found common that people configure too many email accounts on their smartphones. On smartphones, the default setting is sync emails with each email account. This unnecessarily use your data bandwidth. All the spams, drafts and junk files are also synced on to your phone along with the legitimate mails. These days you will get unnecessary recommendations, alerts, notifications and newsletters from your social media accounts.

PS: Private browsing or incognito mode browsing disable caching. This forces the browser to download resource files on every page visit which could have easily avoided.