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Facebook is the largest social network in the world, and really great for keeping in touch with your friends and family, watching videos, and discovering news and other articles. However, the advancement of the capabilities of the Facebook app on your smartphone has led to the Facebook app using more and more data every year.
Right now, using the Facebook app on your smartphone can use a huge chunk of data if you're not careful.
Regular use of the Facebook app uses around 1.5MB per minute. Regular usage means browsing through the News Feed, and viewing photos.
Viewing video content on Facebook uses around 2.6MB per minute, but this can also depend on the quality of video you are watching.
If you spend 45 minutes per day using the Facebook app on your smartphone, then you are using just over 2GB of data per month just on Facebook! This doesn't even take into account if you are watching a lot of videos, nor does it take into account the data that the Facebook app consumes in the background of your smartphone even when you don't have the app open.
Luckily, you can find out how much actual data you've been using on your Facebook app. Here are the steps to find out.
This is one of the most important steps you can take to reduce the amount of data your Facebook app uses. You can set your Facebook app settings so that videos only autoplay when you are on Wi-Fi (so that you don't use your cellular data plan), or you can turn autoplay videos off altogether.
Here's how to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook:
One way to save data is to get rid of the Facebook app and just use Facebook in your web browser by going to Facebook.com and logging in there. The mobile web version of Facebook uses much less data than the Facebook app.
Most people use the regular Facebook app, but did you know there is another version of the app called Facebook Lite? The Facebook Lite app lets you use a scaled down, simpler version of Facebook that uses much less data than the regular Facebook app.
Android phone users can download Facebook Lite from the Google Play Store. Unfortunately for iPhone users, it is not yet available in the Apple App Store.
If you make sure to use W-Fi as much as possible, rather than cellular data from your wireless plan, then it doesn't matter how much data the Facebook app uses.
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