Why am I using so much data on my new I phone 16 than I did with my older phone which was on 02

[rickstar1]

Why am I using all my data up in days , currently at 5GB on my new I phone 16 .

My old Apple phone rarely used over 2GB per month doing everything I required ie browsing, social media, nothing has changed the way I use the phone 

[63johnw]

Hi @rickstar1  your phone data monitor should tell you what's using the data. The first thing to check is auto video play isn't enabled on Facebook or X (twitter). 

[TimmyBGood]

@rickstar1 

Are videos and other media now playing in higher resolution, perhaps because a better screen and/or faster cellular connection has been detected?

[TimmyBGood]

@rickstar1 

Or has iOS updated over the cellular link?

[rickstar1]

I Cloud and I drive we're running in the background which  I were not aware of and using up my data whilst away from  WiFi .

Turned the 2 off and things looking like back to normal.

Obviously Sky manipulated this to force me to buy more data worked .

[daveNOS]

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@rickstar1 wrote:

I Cloud and I drive we're running in the background which  I were not aware of and using up my data whilst away from  WiFi .

Turned the 2 off and things looking like back to normal.

Obviously Sky manipulated this to force me to buy more data worked .

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@rickstar1 How on earth did you come to that conclussion? You had 2 Apple cloud services running on your device using the data and that is somehow Sky's doing?

[PandJ2020]

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@rickstar1 wrote:

Obviously Sky manipulated this to force me to buy more data worked .

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More likely Apple defaults rather than a conspiracy.

[63johnw]

Definitely an Apple issue not a sky one @rickstar1 

[TimmyBGood]

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@rickstar1 wrote:

Obviously Sky manipulated this to force me to buy more data worked .

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I don't think a cellular carrier has access to those iOS settings: it's presumably Apple which has decided to default them to on because, as usual, it has decided it knows what users really need better than the users themselves.

If your previous iPhone model or cellular service wasn't 5G then this wouldn't have been available as an option: iOS detects the 5G capability.