iPhone How do you track your iPhone Cellular Data?

[G.McGilli]

I was wondering about this - As I am under the impression that using an app for tracking data usage might use up some battery in the background?

Are they accurate?

Would love to hear your responses as I have a monthly allotment that needs to be adhered to to avoid massive extra charges on my account.

 

[Freakonomics101]

I use My Data Manager. I believe it runs in the background and eats up a small amount of battery life.

 

[Armen]

I was wondering about this - As I am under the impression that using an app for tracking data usage might use up some battery in the background?

Are they accurate?

Would love to hear your responses as I have a monthly allotment that needs to be adhered to to avoid massive extra charges on my account.

I'm on Verizon. The Verizon app has a today widget that shows data usage.

 

[bcave098]

I use My Data Usage. It's a Today screen widget.

 

[Reno Raines]

I use the t mobile app.

 

[Killchain]

Verizon App,data widget in Notifications.

 

[AeroZ]

Use snapstats app

 

[Gav2k]

More often than not it's better to use the carriers specific app as a lot of data packages are based on both upload and download.

 

[Ipadlover29]

Dataman app.

 

[oMc]

I use the app from my carrier. But it's just per curiosity, because I have unlimited data.

 

[Dieseldk]

I use my carriers app.

 

[AndyK]

MiniStats - Updates in real time vs my carrier app that is usually 24 - 48 hours behind (and terrible in general).

 

[SMIDG3T]

DataMan, best app for it. Free and paid version.

 

[northy124]

On both my iPhone and Note5 I use the MyEE app to let me know when I'm coming close to my data cap.

 

[Shirasaki]

Australia YES Optus. I only use My Optus to track usage. It can update data in real time. Only drawback is I need to check it regularly. I can even recharge my bill within app, or ask for support. Very powerful.

 

[e93to]

I use My Data Manager. It does run in the background (although I have background app refresh off, it constantly updates as long as the phone is not shut off in the middle), but it uses tiny amount of battery. Its usage never shows up in battery usage breakdown.

I also use Settings>Cellular for breakdown.

Interestingly, both are always somewhat off by 100~200mb or so. Usually the app reports higher usage than what is shown in Settings>Cellular.

 

[FrozenInferno]

My carrier (Koodo) has a good app for managing everything and tracking data.

 

[campyguy]

UL data on 4 VZW lines, with backdoor upgrades on each line for 4 years. I. Don't. Care. :evil grin:

UL data on 3 ATTWS lines, courtesy of my DirecTV link. I. Don't. Care. :evil grin:

 

[Freakonomics101]

DataMan, best app for it. Free and paid version.

I can't find a free version. Link?

 

[npolly0212]

I know some fellow friends with Verizon have a data widget they can put in there notifications bar thing. Does anyone know if AT&T has anything like this?

 

[bandofbrothers]

My preference is the inbuilt data monitor along with my networks app.

They are accurate enough for me.

 

[SMIDG3T]

I can't find a free version. Link?

Sorry, my bad, both are paid versions. £1.49 for DataMan Next and £4.49 for DataMan Pro.

DataMan Next is worth the money in my opinion, has a Today widget for iOS and an Apple Watch Glance.

 

[Abazigal]

I use my Telco's app, but it's quite cumbersome, since it's basically a repackaged web app and quite slow and cumbersome to access.

 

[Laurie65]

I use the free phone company app. Works ok, rather slow at times.