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   Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 08:33:14 JST Chris Wiegman

   Up until this year our record combined mobile usage in a given month was about 3GB of data. This year we've been averaging 10-15 and this month I've already used 45GB!

   While our lifestyle has changed significantly, this still seems excessive.

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 08:48:26 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡

     @kraft 3 of them were that. I need to use my iPad at work for anything not explicitly company related (which includes a lot of work tasks) so I picked up a cell-enabled iPad last week. That’s a big part of it, particularly as I just checked the cell usage on it and it downloaded 30GB of my photos on cellular (now that setting is fixed)… *sigh

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     Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡 (kraft@religious.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 08:48:27 JST Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡

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     @chris 45! How'd you manage that? Hot spot usage?

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     David Blue ※ (davidblue@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 08:58:28 JST David Blue ※

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     @chris whoa...

     if you haven't already looked into it, iOS 17's App Privacy Reports seem to be a uniquely truthful taddletale on iOS/iPadOS apps' actual network activity.

     (wish I had screenshots immediately handy of some examples but I remember specifically discovering that Firefox's app had been consuming more bandwidth per day than the next 20 apps on the list even though I hadn't opened it in months.)

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     Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 08:58:28 JST Chris Wiegman

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     • David Blue ※

     @DavidBlue I found the culprit for this month in the cell settings of my iPad. I switched to the cellular iPad last week for work reasons and left it on “wifi assist.” Well, I also download all my photos to it as yet another backup (it has more space than I need) and the two settings combined meant it downloaded over 30GB of my photos on Cell.

     I’ve fixed the glitch.

     *lesigh