How much of your data volume is used for WhatsApp? We give you guidelines and tell you how to measure your consumption with the messenger.
The contractually guaranteed data volume rarely lasts until the end of the month. But it is difficult to determine where this can be saved. Because in the rarest cases you will find information on data consumption in the description of an app. Messenger WhatsApp is no exception.
But the Internet provider PYUR has for its Digital Speed Report measured the amount of data WhatsApp devours per minute. Accordingly, go to the minute at one o’clock Video call via 5 megabyte messenger Whistle. A minute Voice messages, on the other hand, weigh down your data volume with only 0.2 megabytes. PYUR did not measure other scenarios such as displaying status messages, etc.
But you can easily determine the values yourself with WhatsApp. For this you have to proceed as follows:
Determine WhatsApp data usage
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1In the main menu, tap the three dots at the top right and select “Settings”.
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2Now click on “Storage and data”, then click “Network Usage”.
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3Now WhatsApp shows you the data consumption for different categories. Note that this is the total consumption since the app was installed and WhatsApp does not distinguish between use in WLAN and mobile Internet. If you scroll down, you have the option to reset the values. and then to determine the data consumption over a given period of time.
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In a further guide we will show you how you can reduce WhatsApp data consumption. The Messenger also offers appropriate settings for this. Also, we will introduce you to the options to get the data volume for free.
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