If you are someone who enjoys video gaming and finds yourself in a situation where your mobile phone is slow and often hung up, your mobile phone gaming apps might have something to do with it. Every app downloaded on a mobile phone does use both data and battery life. If you want to know how much your game drains the data on your phone, follow the following steps to understand:
On Android, go to > settings > network and internet settings > data usage.
On iPhone, go to > settings > cellular > cellular data usage > current period.
By following the above-mentioned steps, you will see a list of all apps you download including the ones that are games. In front of each app, you can now see the data usage done by that app and can calculate how that has an impact on your phone.
So to answer the question – do mobile phone games use data? The right answer is yes.
If you are wondering how do cell phone games use data, we have an explanation for that too – to track the data required for your phone, each mobile phone technology uses data monitoring. Online game apps are built in a way to work on data usage – the more games you play, the more hours you play, the kind of games you play – all count towards your overall data usage.
Which brings us to the next question – how much data can my game app use? Firstly, it depends on how much data can be used from the data plan you subscribe to. On average, most people subscribe to between 2- 3 GB per day data limit on their mobile phones. Out of this combined GB limit, some data usage is taken by social media apps such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Then, the rest can be used for games if you enjoy them on an everyday basis.
Once you know the data your games are using on phone through the steps we showed you at the beginning of this article, you can then adjust your data usage on your apps accordingly.
