While keeping you connected with your family and friends, WhatsApp devours a large chunk of your mobile data. Here’s how to do a trick to reduce usage when you use the app.
For smartphone users with a limited data allowance, ensuring it lasts every month can be quite a thankless task. Chatting with loved ones via WhatsApp can drastically drain this amount as a data connection is needed to send and receive messages or make calls.
So when you are away from Wi-Fi, it is best not to send large files and hoard pictures on the messaging app. However, there is another useful trick to reduce data usage via WhatsApp while you are on the go.
Users can change their settings so that media downloads only when they are connected to the internet via Wi-Fi. This means that memes and photos from your friends won’t regularly gobble up your data.
What to do?
- All you need to do is go to the “Settings” section on WhatsApp before opening the “Storage and Data” tab.
- You will then be able to see a list of media enabled for auto-download and on what type of connection they are based.
- Simply change every option, like photos, audio, and video, to Wi-Fi only, which prevents you from wasting any data.
There is also a WhatsApp feature that ensures that calls use as little data as possible. Users just need to toggle the “Use less data for calls” switch to stop wasting their data usage while on a call. It is not clear at what cost this happens, but some users online have noted that audio quality seems to be lower when the option is enabled.
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