Different cellphones may have different settings. For Xiaomi smartphone users, follow these steps:- * open SETTINGS * open Installed apps * click on any app you want block internet of * click on Restrict Data usage
Some apps will use background data even if you have background data turned off.(As in they aren't even open or in use, still doing their own thing.) It's pretty annoying.
I agree....the GUI switches are a joke. They are essentially still there at this point to humor all of us. I'm not laughing, though. Reminds me of the taxi scene in the movie, "Police Academy." "This meter lies! It's a lyin meter!" What actually brought me here, was when I "turned off" the huge rack of Permissions to the bundled AT&T app (Transfer & Backup) on one of their Android Go phones (Nokia 3.1A), and watched the app re-enable every single one of them right before my eyes after about 30 seconds. 😲😖🤬
Can you plz let me know that how can I do the same thing for my typing App It's name is GBOARD and it's an app of Google but I can't find than option for this app I don't know why?
this is ridiculous. I could only assume that Android is hand-in-hand with $ervice provider$! I was always able to control *"specifically*" which apps could be used on data and which ones could not. I was shocked to find out my TH-cam was running on data! Already had it turned off in the past, now I can't find how to do it within my system settings. It's ridiculous that I would have to add another app to control that
Unfortunately, this does not prevent the app from using your mobile data. It simply restricts background mobile data usage. My problem is that I have an app that used 2.09 GB of data in the foreground (probably large images scaled in the app.) But, it only used 0.01 GB in the background. For me, I want this app to give an error if it's not on Wifi rather than allow it to use mobile data while I'm using it in the foreground. Suggestions for that?
This doesn't tell me how to stop an app from using foreground data usage. Sometimes i don't notice when my internet goes out while watching youtube, so it just continues playing the videos but using my mobile data without even notifying me.
How do you stop Android from asking everytime I open an app to turn it on! Android 12! I hate that warning, and from time to time it gives you a popup to quickly turn on. I know it's off, I turned it off! There's a reason for it!!! Please if u know how to turm off those warning messages ⚠️ let us know. Thank you!
Phumudzo Bele Too right! It’s ridiculous that all these little apps are running in the background using up your data, even though I thought they were using my home wi-fi. Netguard is must have download!
If any of you guys want to completely disable apps when you are not using it(they won't use your ram, data and basically like disabling), in android 9(might be different on your android version) find developer options and set no background apps in background process limit. It will turn off all apps in background and will show you notifications when you open them. Keep in mind that doing this will also block messages from apps like whatsapp, messenger and will reach you only when you open that app. So make sure to open them time to time to check for new messages and notifications.
Is there any way to do this for a specific app? I want to disable background activity completely on certain apps . I've been looking for months for such a feature :/
@@Atul_Bhardwaj I've alread tried but it doesnt work. Furthermore I used Samsungs "deep sleep" function but I still get notifications from whatsapp. It's frustrating that such a simple thing is hard to achieve
Big time false advertising in the video title there. Background data usage is negligible and this info is largely useless. Watching it only served to waste more of my data.
Expensive phone but cannot do anything. That's why I'm switching to budget phone such as Xiaomi which is customisable. Every spec is the same but with lower price ~
I think this helped me, not positive, never went through app usage and what runs in the background . My question would be ; why do they tell us to save on data usage by being connected to our wifi? I don't get the difference, I mean I'm not on satellite , so I would think that when I'm away from my connection I can't be using data, right,,, shrugs...... I did turn off News Alerts though, I imagine that constant data usage will be stopped unless I turn it back on. I figure weather alerts are handy though, I got one the other day and it was quite helpful, plus I looked into the usage and it was really low compared to News Alerts.
what i really need is youtube not using any mobile data at all, not just background. When i was at home, my wifi signal fell and youtube started using mobile data...I got hit with a big bill because i didnt know it was using mobile data
Great video; What about Wi-Fi data? Turn on WF and turn off mobile Data. Only use Wi-Fi for updating apps. Only use mobile data in a strong signal. ( No use wasting data for poor reception.)
The "in-app" purchase is for the pro version, which unlocks a few extra (but not necessary) features. The app is indeed open source and can be sideloaded from F-Droid, github, or from the site directly. Edit: In fact, I would recommend downloading directly from the app dev's website, because even the free version hosted there is slightly more comprehensive than what's hosted in Google.
I was looking to block certain apps that was using my data, and didn't like that because I have a limited data, but that app is great. Thank you for mentioning it.
None of these are true. I turn my data slider off ALL the time, I never use the internet on my phone, and it continually just turns itself back on and costs me money. It drives me mental and no one knows how to turn it off.
Mobile data is used in the background when the apps "phone home," which is to say that they are recording data about your phone usage across the entire system and sending it back to Google, Facebook, Analytics services, etc. This is one of the ways smart phones spy on people. Edit: Regarding your second question: compared to using wifi for the same tasks. So ultimately it's in your best interest to download Netguard or another firewall anyway in order to prevent the apps from phoning home via wifi. Understand that your pc internet browsers are doing the same thing, which is why it's important to avoid the use of Chrome and Microsoft Edge, in particular.
Different cellphones may have different settings. For Xiaomi smartphone users, follow these steps:- * open SETTINGS * open Installed apps * click on any app you want block internet of * click on Restrict Data usage
On an OnePlus phone you can really cut internet connection from each individual app, not just foreground and background. You cut the app from using data.
This is pointless without specifying phone as its different on every brand and the manufacturers change interfaces. I have 9.p pie and that menu doesnt even excist
Thank you. I realized recently my data is being used by messanger/fb? I dont understand how that can be when im home all the time and using wifi. I have heard that facebook and messanger have this issue. How do i stop this? I can try your recommendations on this video which i am sure will work but how is messanger using my data if im always home using wifi and everything else uses wifi perfectly. I never had this problem until recently. Thank you
How do you know it's using your mobile data? If you're on Wi-Fi all the time, they wouldn't be. Of course the moment your Wi-Fi breaks, they will keep in contact using small amounts of data to check for messages. But realistically, this shouldn't be enough data to care about, so I suspect the premise is wrong: that's not what's using your data.
Very curious. I'm not familiar with the app, but I would have thought only the operating system has access to that sort of information. Are you video calling people on messenger, perhaps? That's the only feature I can think of that would use data.
In theory, yes, but its possible your Wi-Fi was broken at that particular moment, and it just used your mobile data instead of failing the call. This tutorial will only help will background usage though. Do you have a Settings->Connections->Data usage->Mobile data usage ? If you find Messenger in there, see if there's an option to restrict mobile data usage.
@@MakeUseOf Yeah... Google Fi. Has it's benefits and drawbacks. Data is charged at $0.01/mb or $10/gb (free after 6gb). The nice part is if you don't use data, you don't pay for data! While there is still a base charge of $20/month, the max possible bill is $80/month. This might not be the best in terms of an unlimited plan, but if you're normally sticking to wifi for all video watching you won't pay much more than $20/month . I have wifi at home/work so it's very rare I need to watch videos with mobile data unless I screw up and turn wifi off by accident :P Thanks again for your info on NetGuard. I should hopefully never have this problem again, haha!
It gives you instructions on how to change setting's to stop that when you open the app. you might have hit the "don't show this message again" button.
@@MakeUseOf This only tells us how to disable background data usage. We need to know how to disable full data usage, so that when I'm using an app with mobile data on, that particular app isn't using data.
i dont need to stop background data i want to stop the app completely from the the internet even if data is on
I want this.
Same i cant find a solution
Different cellphones may have different settings.
For Xiaomi smartphone users, follow these steps:-
* open SETTINGS
* open Installed apps
* click on any app you want block internet of
* click on Restrict Data usage
I restricted data but still it takes background data even less than 1MB but it takes n I don't understand it
Jo
Stoping the background usage is not "stoping TH-cam from using data"
3:36 Try finishing the video.
Will it work on playstore
Deceiving title. Boooooooooooooooooooooo
The easiest way to stop mobile data usage is to throw the smartphone/iphone in the trash and get yourself a normal phone. No more mobile data usage.
☺️ ... Best regards 🇨🇦
Some apps will use background data even if you have background data turned off.(As in they aren't even open or in use, still doing their own thing.) It's pretty annoying.
I agree....the GUI switches are a joke. They are essentially still there at this point to humor all of us. I'm not laughing, though. Reminds me of the taxi scene in the movie, "Police Academy." "This meter lies! It's a lyin meter!"
What actually brought me here, was when I "turned off" the huge rack of Permissions to the bundled AT&T app (Transfer & Backup) on one of their Android Go phones (Nokia 3.1A), and watched the app re-enable every single one of them right before my eyes after about 30 seconds. 😲😖🤬
Calls video Stop Any Android App from Using Mobile Data. Doesn't show you how to Stop Any Android App from Using Mobile Data.
*in the background.
wasted 3 minutes of my time
Misleading title. Is there seriously no way to completely turn off mobile data for specific apps on Android?!
Why is Kermit trying to help me control my internet data in a better way?
Watched at .75 speed. All good.
This is actually very useful information that can make you save tons of money monthly... thanks a million, bro!
give me too bro
How do you block an app from using any data... like no data at all
Can you plz let me know that how can I do the same thing for my typing App
It's name is GBOARD and it's an app of Google but I can't find than option for this app I don't know why?
this is ridiculous. I could only assume that Android is hand-in-hand with $ervice provider$! I was always able to control *"specifically*" which apps could be used on data and which ones could not. I was shocked to find out my TH-cam was running on data! Already had it turned off in the past, now I can't find how to do it within my system settings. It's ridiculous that I would have to add another app to control that
Unfortunately, this does not prevent the app from using your mobile data. It simply restricts background mobile data usage. My problem is that I have an app that used 2.09 GB of data in the foreground (probably large images scaled in the app.) But, it only used 0.01 GB in the background. For me, I want this app to give an error if it's not on Wifi rather than allow it to use mobile data while I'm using it in the foreground. Suggestions for that?
Uninstall it
@@bscggn7201 Funny...
This video is a clickbait. He does not have answers. Just dislike and move on.
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Not worked for me I have TH-cam package but still the network provider is cutting my balance on the usage of TH-cam even when netguard is on
Not happy
We are talking about background data I want to stop app to use data from sim data, iPhone is very good to control your apps
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Thank you Ben it helped me a lot.
This doesn't tell me how to stop an app from using foreground data usage. Sometimes i don't notice when my internet goes out while watching youtube, so it just continues playing the videos but using my mobile data without even notifying me.
How do you stop Android from asking everytime I open an app to turn it on! Android 12! I hate that warning, and from time to time it gives you a popup to quickly turn on. I know it's off, I turned it off! There's a reason for it!!! Please if u know how to turm off those warning messages ⚠️ let us know. Thank you!
Thank sss
Come on, that net guard app should come as a standard feature. Huawei has this as standard since the Huawei P9
Phumudzo Bele Too right! It’s ridiculous that all these little apps are running in the background using up your data, even though I thought they were using my home wi-fi. Netguard is must have download!
If any of you guys want to completely disable apps when you are not using it(they won't use your ram, data and basically like disabling), in android 9(might be different on your android version) find developer options and set no background apps in background process limit. It will turn off all apps in background and will show you notifications when you open them. Keep in mind that doing this will also block messages from apps like whatsapp, messenger and will reach you only when you open that app. So make sure to open them time to time to check for new messages and notifications.
Thanks, i will try this 👍
Is there any way to do this for a specific app? I want to disable background activity completely on certain apps . I've been looking for months for such a feature :/
@@MimasAnimations try disabling background data usage for that app.
@@Atul_Bhardwaj I've alread tried but it doesnt work. Furthermore I used Samsungs "deep sleep" function but I still get notifications from whatsapp. It's frustrating that such a simple thing is hard to achieve
No, it won't stop background data for What's app even after the settings you suggested, Could you give some explaination on it
me too
Big time false advertising in the video title there. Background data usage is negligible and this info is largely useless. Watching it only served to waste more of my data.
What the fuq? You spoke English and then you speak Gobble gobble gobble. SMFH
[app] puzzle? combo?...(Mixer, Finder, Nextdoor, *data folder*)
Expensive phone but cannot do anything. That's why I'm switching to budget phone such as Xiaomi which is customisable. Every spec is the same but with lower price ~
I switched my data off but my credit goes to $00:.0 it is annoying as I switched it off, what am I doing wrong?
I don't believe in data I allways use wifi even if I got find wifi spot far away
Concise, pertinant and very useful. Thank you.
Will it work for TH-cam???
I got a virus app and it used 12.8 GB and it will not let me stop it
thanks bro
I think this helped me, not positive, never went through app usage and what
runs in the background . My question would be ; why do they tell us to save
on data usage by being connected to our wifi? I don't get the difference, I mean
I'm not on satellite , so I would think that when I'm away from my connection
I can't be using data, right,,, shrugs......
I did turn off News Alerts though, I imagine that constant data usage will be
stopped unless I turn it back on. I figure weather alerts are handy though, I
got one the other day and it was quite helpful, plus I looked into the usage and
it was really low compared to News Alerts.
2022 not working. Apps still connects to the internet.
what i really need is youtube not using any mobile data at all, not just background. When i was at home, my wifi signal fell and youtube started using mobile data...I got hit with a big bill because i didnt know it was using mobile data
GB(gigabytes) limit on Android smartphone version 9
GB limit warning 2.0
Apps cause drains battery and heats your cpu.
How about for ground 4g blocking?
Great video; What about Wi-Fi data? Turn on WF and turn off mobile Data. Only use Wi-Fi for updating apps. Only use mobile data in a strong signal. ( No use wasting data for poor reception.)
Thx, never heard of the app before. Thx for sharing it with us
it's really working or not? not for me
When im not playing my mobile gaicha game, dose Still consume data even if im not playing it, while my mobile data is Still active, open ?
This app offers in-app purchases so I don't think it's "Open-source"
The "in-app" purchase is for the pro version, which unlocks a few extra (but not necessary) features. The app is indeed open source and can be sideloaded from F-Droid, github, or from the site directly.
Edit: In fact, I would recommend downloading directly from the app dev's website, because even the free version hosted there is slightly more comprehensive than what's hosted in Google.
Do you know how to restrict complete data for mobile data for particular apps? stock Android
I think they have removed it. I have always been able to use it now I can't find it
Is there any way to disable foreground mobile data usage for just one app? That is what I need!
Title is false. This does NOT show you how to prevent an app from using mobile data.
Thx bro😎😋
Is there any settings like iphone?
Thank you very much. NetGuard App worked for me. I had tried so many other ways already without success.
If you read this, stop watching it. This is what i did after reading some comments.
Don't have VPN. Is there anything else I can use instead of the VPN
wait how to stop an app eating my data bc this app i delete data but if i log in it uses all my data my data is 14 mb left why!!!!
What about when it won't let u turn it off or deny a permission what do I do 😭
Bro I turn off every thing but is still using data wtf wrong with this phone
how to turn off the notification?
Why my data all OB?
Or turn off your mobile data when u don't have to use it
How I can allow an app to use data
Why is my removed app data usage really high
It doesn't work when you have no regular wifi or data
Bro you are great at this........ Keep going,,,,, and thanks
Not useful and misleading title
Great accent
literally did not do what the title says
I was looking to block certain apps that was using my data, and didn't like that because I have a limited data, but that app is great. Thank you for mentioning it.
Yeah me too i sometimes go to yt for ten minutes and i used 500 mb so wanna turn yt on
@@lemonkes8618 It turned out that you still receiving notifications in the background which causes to data to be used. Doesn't work for me.
@@mabast007 Turn off also the notification. Problem solved.
None of these are true. I turn my data slider off ALL the time, I never use the internet on my phone, and it continually just turns itself back on and costs me money. It drives me mental and no one knows how to turn it off.
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This video helped me. Try see if this helps you all the best!
Wow, thank you SO MUCH!
wtf
So when is 'Mobile Data' being used , under what circumstances?
What is 'mobile data' compared to what ?
Asking for a friend.... :)
Mobile data is used in the background when the apps "phone home," which is to say that they are recording data about your phone usage across the entire system and sending it back to Google, Facebook, Analytics services, etc. This is one of the ways smart phones spy on people.
Edit: Regarding your second question: compared to using wifi for the same tasks. So ultimately it's in your best interest to download Netguard or another firewall anyway in order to prevent the apps from phoning home via wifi. Understand that your pc internet browsers are doing the same thing, which is why it's important to avoid the use of Chrome and Microsoft Edge, in particular.
Bro how to do it in samsung j2
Is method 1 is work on WiFi internet ?
Different cellphones may have different settings.
For Xiaomi smartphone users, follow these steps:-
* open SETTINGS
* open Installed apps
* click on any app you want block internet of
* click on Restrict Data usage
On an OnePlus phone you can really cut internet connection from each individual app, not just foreground and background. You cut the app from using data.
How to do this?
@@anjan227 app info, mobile data, then you can select to block data
This is pointless without specifying phone as its different on every brand and the manufacturers change interfaces. I have 9.p pie and that menu doesnt even excist
The vital one of turning mobile data off is on Android 10
I wish I had seen this video before your the best lot's of love 😘❤️🧡
What Happens if the one that is doing it at the full blue line is google do i still turn it off?
How remove restrictions nw🙏
Deceiving title
Thanks Man.
Are u using asus zenphone max pro m2
was so useful tnx for it.
Turned them all off, still having to restart my phone to make a call.
Tq for the video and your information bro it is really helpful to us
Thank you💚🌿
Thank you
Thanks a lot
Thanks
Thank you so much😘
tahnks this tip helps :D
Bro what is os services it uses my most of data for nothing plz help bro
Thank you. I realized recently my data is being used by messanger/fb? I dont understand how that can be when im home all the time and using wifi. I have heard that facebook and messanger have this issue. How do i stop this? I can try your recommendations on this video which i am sure will work but how is messanger using my data if im always home using wifi and everything else uses wifi perfectly. I never had this problem until recently. Thank you
How do you know it's using your mobile data? If you're on Wi-Fi all the time, they wouldn't be. Of course the moment your Wi-Fi breaks, they will keep in contact using small amounts of data to check for messages. But realistically, this shouldn't be enough data to care about, so I suspect the premise is wrong: that's not what's using your data.
@@MakeUseOf it is because i checked the usage on my verizon app breakdown and it shows im using 87% of my data from that exact app. Messanger.
Very curious. I'm not familiar with the app, but I would have thought only the operating system has access to that sort of information. Are you video calling people on messenger, perhaps? That's the only feature I can think of that would use data.
@@MakeUseOf Yes. I only use messanger to video call 1 person on facebook. But isnt it suppose to use my wifi?
In theory, yes, but its possible your Wi-Fi was broken at that particular moment, and it just used your mobile data instead of failing the call. This tutorial will only help will background usage though. Do you have a Settings->Connections->Data usage->Mobile data usage ? If you find Messenger in there, see if there's an option to restrict mobile data usage.
Which phone is this????
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Unnecessarily stretched the video
thank u u helped mea lot
Thanks, had to figure this out after watching one anime episode cost me over $17 in data :(
Damn, sorry to hear that, I can't imagine being on a data limited plan.
@@MakeUseOf Yeah... Google Fi. Has it's benefits and drawbacks. Data is charged at $0.01/mb or $10/gb (free after 6gb). The nice part is if you don't use data, you don't pay for data! While there is still a base charge of $20/month, the max possible bill is $80/month. This might not be the best in terms of an unlimited plan, but if you're normally sticking to wifi for all video watching you won't pay much more than $20/month . I have wifi at home/work so it's very rare I need to watch videos with mobile data unless I screw up and turn wifi off by accident :P
Thanks again for your info on NetGuard. I should hopefully never have this problem again, haha!
When I clear up ram, this app stops working.
It gives you instructions on how to change setting's to stop that when you open the app. you might have hit the "don't show this message again" button.
Title your videos properly.
What do you think is wrong with the title?
@@MakeUseOf This only tells us how to disable background data usage. We need to know how to disable full data usage, so that when I'm using an app with mobile data on, that particular app isn't using data.
Agreed. The title and the video had nothing to do with each other
@@ED-bu3gj did you try watching the video till the end?
Thanks for your help bro
I feel, Any Over Measure Of Stopping Apps Is The Same As Intruding & Malice. This Shouldn't Be Allowed.