"Wedding Planning: 4 Strategies to Avoid iPhone Data Restrictions While Gathering Information"

2018.12.26 published

This month, the [data limit] has arrived again...!

A smartphone that is essential and indispensable for daily life*

✓ Communicating through LINE

✓ Checking Twitter and Instagram

✓ Checking news and weather

✓ Listening to music and watching videos

It is a wonderful tool of civilization that can do just about anything!*

For brides preparing for their wedding, a smartphone is absolutely necessary for gathering information!

But if you get carried away and use your smartphone too much,

you might exceed the data limit of your contract and get hit by the [data limit]...

Once you hit the data limit, it's a real hassle!

The connection speed slows down, making it difficult to navigate to specific pages online, and it takes forever to load images on Instagram...

You're forced to live a life that is hard to bear (and it feels wasteful to pay extra...)

Many brides may have experienced spending their days wishing, "I can't wait for next month to arrive!"

In today's online society, to avoid such an inconvenient lifestyle, I will introduce ways to conserve data before hitting the limit.

If you have an iPhone, please refer to these tips!*

Data Limit Measure #1 Turn off mobile data usage by app

The first thing to try is to turn off mobile data usage for individual apps on your smartphone.*

Mobile data refers to types of connections such as 3G, 4G, and LTE, instead of Wi-Fi.

By going to "Settings" and then "Cellular Data," you can see the data usage displayed in MB or KB for each app.

Here, uncheck the apps that you don't use often or that are consuming too much data.*

By unchecking, those apps will only function when connected to Wi-Fi,

significantly reducing your mobile data usage.

Data Limit Measure #2 Turn off location services

Next, you want to turn off location services.*

The location service function that reflects your current location in apps is very convenient, but

it actually consumes mobile data, using up more capacity than you might think...!

Moreover, restaurant apps downloaded temporarily may unknowingly be set to "Always Allow."

For apps other than navigation apps like Google Maps, set them to "While Using the App" or "Never Allow."*

You can access this through "Settings" → "Privacy" → "Location Services."

Data Limit Measure #3 Turn off background app refresh

You might not have heard much about this, but iPhones have a feature called background app refresh.*

This allows apps to gather or update the latest information in the background, even when you are not using them.

Occasionally, you might find that the features of LINE or Instagram suddenly change. This is due to this feature!*

But automatic updates for unnecessary apps waste data, so go to "Settings" → "General" → "Background App Refresh" and

uncheck the apps that you don’t use often.*

Data Limit Measure #4 Save data on Instagram, the most used app

Lastly, an effective measure might be to save data on Instagram, which many brides probably use the most!

It is said that Instagram consumes nearly double the data compared to other social media platforms...!

Indeed, since the main service involves posting and viewing images and videos, it's somewhat understandable, but

just limiting this a little bit could have a significant impact! ♩

The method is to go to the Instagram app's "Settings" → "Cellular Data Use" page

and uncheck "Reduce Data Usage."*

By unchecking this option, videos will no longer autoplay, helping you save data!

＼Yay／ Let’s free ourselves from the data limit!

Monthly data throttling is said to be one of the causes of stress for modern people.

I'm sure your iPhone's data consumption can be reduced even more than it is now...!

Please try the methods introduced this time to free yourself from the data limit and gather plenty of information for your wedding!*