topic Re: unexplained excess data use in uk in Sky Mobile

unexplained excess data use in uk

DiDawson — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:46:37 GMT

I'm in UK on a 3GB data plan. I work at home so am on WiFi all day/night. Normal data usage is less than 1GB. Feb/March was over 10GB. Mar/April over 9GB already. I've rolled over data from Piggybank last 2 months but can't explain the excess data usage.

Any ideas?

Re: unexplained excess data use in uk

63johnw — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:07 GMT

Hi @DiDawson have a look at your phones data monitor and that will show which apps are using the most data.

Re: unexplained excess data use in uk

PandJ2020 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:02:23 GMT

@DiDawson wrote:
Any ideas?

Your phone will have counters that will record which app is using the data. (You may need to reset them)

Re: unexplained excess data use in uk

DiDawson — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:18:18 GMT

Thanks both. I checked and App Store was using most and yet I only use it once, yesterday for the first time this year? Anyway I also noticed Data Roaming was using data. No idea how/why, so I turned it off. All very odd and still no explanation as to what has changed recently.