Advise how to monitor traffic on iPhone. I need to clearly set the limit and be notified as it is used up.
- Denis
Hello Denis.
You can monitor traffic directly in the iOS settings. To do this, on the first day of the billing period (month), go to Settings - Cellular and reset statistics.
This will be the most accurate and reliable counter, but, unfortunately, the system does not allow you to set limits and display notifications.
You can use the carrier app. All relevant programs will clearly track the traffic, but with a slight delay. The application itself does not take into account the data, but only receives statistics from the operator. In some cases, you can even limit exceeding the limit.
The most convenient means of monitoring network traffic are third-party applications from the App Store. We recommend using Traffic Monitor.
The utility flexibly sets a limit for a specified period, you can shift the boundaries of the reporting period and display several notifications when the set thresholds are exceeded. The main thing - do not forget to give the program all the necessary permissions the first time you start it.
For clarity, you can also display the widget. Unfortunately, this method will be the least accurate, iOS is a closed system and does not allow third-party applications to get all the necessary statistics.
Set a limit with a margin, and after a month, compare it with the operator’s statistics and correct it in the right direction.
The times when we paid for home Internet based on the traffic spent are long gone. Now almost everyone in the apartment has their own "unlimited", limiting the use of the Internet except perhaps by speed. Nevertheless, the problem with the amount of downloaded traffic for our portable devices, such as a smartphone or tablet, has not gone away, so we have to constantly monitor the spent megabytes every day so as not to be left without the Internet at one fine moment. But here's how it is most convenient to track it - the question, of course, is an interesting one.
Business in Russia is another topic of eternal debate. After all, there is always the possibility that the operator will turn off your Internet for exceeding the limit at a time when it has not yet been reached. And how to check it? Suddenly you are being deceived?
Of course, on your smartphone or tablet, you can always view statistics on the used megabytes, but this is not so convenient. In addition, you should always remember this. Well, let's look at the options available to us, and then decide which one is best for traffic accounting. So what do we have:
1) Using the built-in iOS solution for collecting statistics.
2) Installing a separate application from the telecom operator.
3) Installing a third-party application from the App Store to check statistics.
4) Jailbreak and subsequent installation of third-party software from Cydia.
5) Buying an unlimited package for the Internet.
1. iOS already knows everything
Absolutely every iOS device has a built-in tracker that counts your spent megabytes. Its use is perhaps the simplest of all the above options. You can find usage statistics on iOS by going to Settings – cellular and go down a little lower in the menu to the item Fare statistics by cellular.
Here we have general traffic statistics for all your activities, and just below - for each individual application. At the very end of the list there is a statistics reset button, by clicking on which the countdown will start from zero - this will be relevant for counting traffic at the beginning of each month. In addition, among the applications you use, you can disable those that, in your opinion, should not consume too many valuable megabytes, thus preventing them from accessing the network.
Pros:
- Already in every iPhone and iPad.
- Ease of use.
- Work in the background.
- Statistics for each application.
- Ability to disable certain applications.
Minuses:
- Statistics need to be reset every month or painstakingly monitor it.
- No notifications when the limit is reached.
2. Trust your carrier
Every self-respecting operator a few years ago allowed the subscriber to manage their tariffs directly by making a personal account for each. However, progress does not stand still, and the LC in the web versions has been replaced by applications that replace it. However, the quality and usability of the applications themselves leave much to be desired. It often becomes quite difficult to find the necessary information in an overloaded interface, so this option is only acceptable for users of mobile operators somewhere in America or Europe.
Pros:
- The most accurate statistics directly from the mobile operator.
- The application is free.
- Notifications about reaching the limit (not always).
Minuses:
— Usually a disgusting support.
- Terrible application optimization (for operators in Russia and the CIS).
- Not an intuitive interface.
- Often justified distrust of the operator.
3. Applications from the App Store
In addition to official applications from telecom operators, there are many other solutions in the Apple app store that will help you keep track of precious megabytes, and at the same time notify you when a certain threshold of downloaded traffic is reached. Perhaps the most popular of these is data usage with a modest price of 33 rubles. However, there are others, even free analogues, but, unfortunately, of different quality. Separately, it is worth highlighting the application Traffic Monitor, which has proven itself well for a long time.
Pros:
- Automatic reset of statistics and counting on a new one.
- Notifications about reaching certain traffic limits.
- Restrictions can be set by yourself (for example: daily, weekly, etc.).
- User-friendly interface, graphing.
- Independent traffic count.
Minuses:
- Not all (and not always) applications can work correctly in the background.
— You have to pay for quality (as an exception, you can try Traffic Monitor).
4. Applications from Cydia
Here, of course, everything is clear: first you need to jailbreak your device in order to gain access to the Cydia application store. However, hacking the device does not mean that now you can install anything for free. Not at all. As with the App Store, Cydia has a fair amount of apps, but most of them also cost money.
Perhaps the most popular are WeeTrackData, which, in addition to working in the background, can be built into the notification center for quick access to it, and CCMeters, which can also be displayed in the CU, however, to install it, you will need to install additional CCLoader software.
Pros:
— Of course, work in the background.
- Quick access to the application from the Notification Center.
- Notifications about reaching the limit.
Minuses:
- Jailbreak required.
“It often costs money.
— Depending on the software, you may need to install additional components.
4. Down with restrictions!
One of the easiest ways to forget about the headaches about traffic costs is to connect to unlimited Internet. Undoubtedly, this option can “fly a pretty penny”, but if this is not a problem for you, this method will be the most painless. Another thing is that not all operators offer unlimited tariffs. There are packages for 80-100 GB, but they run out anyway. On the other hand, you don't download Blu-Ray movies on iOS for days, do you?
Alternatively, if there is an operator in your city that provides truly unlimited traffic, then you can simply use its services, as I did.
Z.Y.
If you look at the problem from the other side, then you can think not about counting traffic, but minimizing it. For example, use third-party browsers with this capability. By the way, Opera Mini has long been able to compress it. Or if you can't stand anything different from Safari, you can try Onavo Extend, a standalone application that works on the same principle. Unfortunately, it is not available in the Russian version of the App Store.
How much traffic do you spend per month? Is what the operators offer enough? Tell us about it in the comments!
Every new day starts with my iPhone. Recently also with the iPad. When I wake up, I check my email for incoming messages, I can quickly go over social networks, and only after that I start the day returning to an upright position. While I was acquiring fresh information, my device was tirelessly winding up megabytes of traffic, for which, accordingly, I have to pay. Due to the frequent use of the Internet, conditionally unlimited tariffs are connected on both of my devices. If the threshold of gigabytes per month or megabytes per day set by the operator is exceeded, the connection speed is significantly reduced, which is not good. Of course, I have the opportunity to monitor the consumed traffic using the counter built into iOS in the "statistics" menu, but this is very inconvenient - there the traffic is rounded up to hundreds of megabytes when a gigabyte is exceeded, the total traffic is not shown, and of course there is no way to be notified about exceeding the limit. Therefore, alternative solutions have to be found.
As it turned out, in the AppStore for the purposes of tracking traffic for 2 years there has been an excellent product from our compatriots - Download Meter. According to the authors, their product is the first in the AppStore for tracking traffic, and managed to enter the top ten best-selling utilities in 54 countries around the world. It turns out that the closest analogues-clones appeared only six months later.
The program is a universal application that works on both iPhone and iPad (and of course iPod).
The main function of the program should be considered a warning to the user about the imminent exhaustion of the traffic limit. To do this, you must specify the type of limit and its size, as well as the date from which the reporting period began. Monthly, daily, weekly, two-weekly, 30-day (according to the authors - this is for the American operator AT & T) limits are supported, and of course an unlimited tariff.
After setting the limit, the program will show the amount of traffic consumed in the current reporting period (as a number, and as an indicator like a battery), calculate the balance, show the remaining traffic divided by the remaining number of days and other important parameters.
But in fact, after setting up the program, you don’t need to open it - it will work in the background and monitor traffic automatically every 10 minutes (on devices and firmware that support multitasking - that is, on iPhone 3GS and higher, on iOS 4.x and 5.x). When you approach certain limit consumption levels - for example, 60%, 70%, 95% - the program will show a notification.
The exact levels at which a notification will be shown can be configured in the settings.
You can also configure the program so that it shows the percentage of traffic consumed, or the amount of traffic consumed in megabytes - on its icon.
Also in Download Meter there is a set of counters that take into account traffic for different periods. When you launch the application for the first time, three counters will be available to you: “since the last launch of the application”, “for the entire time of operation” and “since the device was turned on”. The user is also able to create counters by specifying the necessary parameters, as well as stop and start the created counters (below is a screenshot with the New York counter created by the user):
Each counter is a separate opportunity for the user to check the amount of traffic used for a set period. So, if you are sure that your device eats up data overnight, then before going to bed you should try to create a counter and in the morning, you will be able to know, to the nearest byte, how noticeable this night will be for your tariff plan and wallet. In the morning you can stop this counter, and in the evening you can start it, as a result, on the morning of the second day, you will see the total traffic consumption for both nights. Given that you can create and turn on a lot of counters at once, this opens up endless possibilities for research - up to the point that you can make a counter “traffic consumption at work on Thursdays and Fridays”, and so on.
When you tap on the account, detailed information is shown and it becomes possible to rename it, reset it, stop it or correct it.
For the simplest purposes of measuring traffic, the “since the last run” counter built into the program is used. It shows the data consumption since the last time you opened the program. So in most cases, you will not need to create your own counters.
The application will also be useful for owners of iPod and iPad Wi-fi, as it can measure wi-fi traffic. As you know, there is no way to measure Wi-Fi traffic consumption on iOS without using third-party applications! And this can be useful in order to assess our traffic needs in places where there is no Wi-Fi - that is, at home we go to the Internet via wi-fi, see what our traffic needs are, and after that we can determine which tariff plan will suit us, for example, for traveling when there is no wi-fi.
Also, some cafes have a limit on the amount of traffic that can be received on their guest network (for example, McDonald's), so it's useful to see how much free Wi-Fi traffic is left to use.
The application supports all iOS devices running iOS 3.0 and above and is translated into twelve languages, which allows you to increase the number of users around the world. It seems to me that this is really a very useful application for every owner of an iOS device.
Name: Download Meter
Publisher/Developer: HedonicSoft
Price: $1,99
Link:
Today, mobile Internet is available to almost everyone. For a penny, the user receives a large amount of Internet traffic included in the service packages of mobile operators. We no longer count megabytes, as in the old days, when the speed was at the level of dial-up modems. We use social networks and Youtube all day long.
In some cases, especially when changing an Android smartphone to an iPhone, the user is faced with the fact that when the Internet is connected, the traffic constantly disappears somewhere. In one or two days, a phone without the knowledge of the owner can use up 1-2 or more gigabytes of the Internet. A strange situation, but it is the place to be. And those who used to be used to the fact that the available prepaid megabytes are enough for a month in a few days may find that the available prepaid Internet has ended ...
Unusually, Apple products have one unpleasant feature - they are very fond of eating Internet traffic without the knowledge of the owner of the device (with his tacit consent and ignorance). In addition, a constant Internet connection quickly drains the iPhone battery, which can be a pleasant surprise. This is where the owners of "apple" products begin to get nervous - they sin on the operator, on a bad smartphone battery.
In fact, the problem lies in the Internet access settings of the iOS operating system and applications installed on the iPhone. To understand why this happens, you should understand the settings that will help you avoid trouble with the rapid consumption of data on the iPhone.
Where did the traffic on the iPhone go? What is the reason?
Among the possible ways of leaking the Internet in the iPhone, I want to note the main ones among the possible ones:
Apple smartphone owners may also suspect the operation of mailboxes, receiving push notifications, the browser, and others in traffic leaks on the iPhone, but:
- Push notifications, mail downloads use Internet traffic in very small volumes.
- If you disable all additional features and services (as suggested by many sites), then why do you need an iPhone?
Therefore, let's try to get by with not so radical solutions in the fight against traffic leakage on the iPhone.
We prohibit updating and downloading programs from the App Store
Most of the programs installed on a smartphone can be updated independently when updating the version in the App Store, which can significantly consume the Internet on the iPhone.
How to disable self-updating apps on iPhone
We go to the settings. Next - in the "iTunes Store and App Store" section, move the slider in the "Cellular Data" section to the "Off" position.
This procedure saves traffic on the iPhone - programs will no longer use the mobile Internet for updates (all updates will be via Wi-Fi).
Find out what application eats traffic on the iPhone
In addition to updates, installed programs consume Internet traffic while performing their normal functions. Therefore, if you have any suspicions that any application is “very hungry”, we analyze the data statistics on the cellular network. To do this, go to Settings-Cellular. View statistics for each application. The disadvantage of this solution is that you will have to enable data transfer if you want to use the application.
Prevent iCloud Drive from syncing over cellular
It will be news to many iPhone owners that the phone can use the cellular network to sync data to iCloud storage. And if you regularly take photos, videos, then this will become a large flow of traffic, videos and photos take up a lot of space. In addition, iCloud synchronization through a mobile operator consumes the battery of your favorite phone.
Preventing iCloud Drive from syncing when not connected to a Wi-Fi network is easy with just a few clicks on your iPhone. Go to menu Settings -> iCloud -> iCloud Drive and uncheck Cellular Data.
Blocking iTunes Match from Accessing Cellular Networks
The built-in iTunes Match service in iOS, like iCloud Drive, can consume valuable data if you do not prohibit it from taking such liberties. Prevent iTunes Match from accessing cellular networks in the menu Settings -> iTunes Store App Store, where it is enough to uncheck the item "Cellular data".
Using the Reading List in Safari
Not everyone knows that the Internet browser iOS Safari can spend traffic wisely. Developed back in iOS 7, the Reading List feature allows you to save interesting pages of the global network for offline viewing (for example, when you are in Wi-Fi coverage area) by pressing just one button.
I want to note that most websites prohibit such actions, so when you try to use such a useful feature, you can in 9 out of 10 cases get a message that the site is not for offline viewing.
Getting rid of unnecessary push notifications
Push notifications are small messages that are displayed on the screen of devices. Push messages are somewhat similar to SMS. Most of the push messages you receive provide useful information, but some are promotional in nature. Users need only some notifications. By leaving push notifications from your favorite social network or sports application, we can reduce the traffic consumption of our beloved mobile product from Apple.
Setting the parameters for receiving and displaying such messages is available in the menu Settings -> Notification Center.
Restrict iPhone or iPad access to the cellular network
The most effective method of saving and saving Internet traffic will be to turn off the Internet at all in those moments when it is not needed.
You can turn off and turn on cellular data on the iPhone in the menu Settings -> Cellular Data.
I hope that you have discovered something new for yourself in the economical use of the Internet traffic of your mobile operator, the information turned out to be useful. What other ways to save internet on iPhone do you know? Submit in the comments...
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Long gone are the days when providers kept track of the megabytes spent by users on the Web. Tariff plans for home Internet these days differ mainly in speed. But mobile operators are in no hurry to provide completely unlimited Internet and, as a rule, allocate only a certain amount of traffic.
But today, not only people, but also smartphones themselves cannot live without the Internet: it happens that he himself will steal something there in the middle of the night, update a couple of applications, and in the morning there is no more left to download attachments from the mail. Well, let's think about how you can deal with this and how to save on mobile Internet.
1. Disable automatic app updates
The first thing to do is turn off automatic software updates. Many applications download updates in the background, which means you may not even know about it. Allow updates only to those that you really need constantly. You can do this on iOS in the "Settings - General - Content Update" section.
Android owners need to go to the "Settings - Data transfer - operator" section. You can also see in detail which application consumes how much for a selected period of time. Clicking on each of them opens detailed settings for a particular program. We need to “Limit background traffic”, and if you wish, you can turn off auto-updating data.
2. Set a traffic limit
To control the consumption of Internet traffic, set the required limit in accordance with your tariff plan or option directly on your smartphone. On iOS, just download a third-party app from the App Store. The free Traffic Monitor utility is just one of those. On Android, you can limit data transfer as follows: go to "Settings - Data usage - Set limit".
3. Opt out of sync
Regardless of which network you use to access the Internet - 4G / LTE, 3G or EDGE / 2G, the smartphone regularly synchronizes available applications with remote servers. In order to avoid this and, accordingly, save money, you just need to disable such synchronization. On iOS, this can be done in two steps: first go to "Settings - iCloud - iCloud Drive - turn off Cellular Data", then "Settings - iTunes Store and App Store - turn off Cellular Data". On Android, just go to "System settings - Accounts - Turn off synchronization / Wi-Fi only"
4. Disable Widgets
Many smartphone users install widgets. Statistics show that one-time Internet surfing in the browser consumes significantly less traffic compared to requests from a widget that requires an uninterrupted Internet connection.
5. Download data in advance
The navigator applications Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Navigator and Google Maps can actually work offline. You just need to download the maps first. In Yandex, this is done like this: "Yandex.Maps - Menu - Download maps - Moscow - Download". And in Google like this: "Google Maps - Menu - Your places - Download map area - Select a map - Download."
