How To Save Airtel Smartbytes Data For Android & iOS Devices

Even though Airtel allows you to recharge data with Airtel Smartbytes service at a reasonable price, you should still consider limit your mobile data service to cut down the cost. You don’t need to stop using your favorite services like YouTube or Whatsapp as there are many other ways to lower your data usage. Here are the best ones for both Android and iOS platforms.

First, you should check your current data plan. The most popular Smartbytes providers in India are Jio and Airtel. In order to check all Airtel data plans, you can check out this article: Airtel Smartbytes And All Of Its Affordable Top-Up Plans. Next, you need to check how much data left on your Smartbytes plan: How To Check Airtel Smartbytes Data Usage And Top Up Your Data Plan.

If you still find your phone eating too much of your data, you can use all the below tips to cut them down.

How To Save Data For Airtel Smartbytes For Android Devices?

I will show you how to save data on some of the most popular apps out there. First, you need to check which apps are eating the most data on your phone.

• Open Settings
• Select Network & Internet
• Tap Data usage
• Choose App Data usage

You can see your data usage in the last 30 days and it is best to view that in a full 30-day period.  

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How to lower data usage in YouTube

If you are good with sacrificing the video quality, you can save plenty of mobile data on YouTube by only watching videos in HD quality when connected to WiFi.

• Tap your profile picture on the top right corner 
• Choose Setting 
• Select General 
• Enable “Limit Mobile data usage”

How to lower data usage in Chrome

If you spend a lot of time browsing in Chrome, you will definitely use this to lower the data usage.  

• Select the three-dot overflow menu in the top right corner
• Tap Settings
• Select Lite mode
• Switch to On

How to lower data usage in Play Store

Having a lot of apps might also be one of the things eating your data the most, especially apps that need updates regularly. Here is how to turn off the Auto-update feature when on Mobile data.

• Select the menu on the top left corner
• Tap Settings
• Select ‘Auto-update apps’ & ‘Select Over-Wi-Fi only’
• Select ‘App download preference’ & ‘Select Over-Wi-Fi only’

How to lower data usage in Netflix

If you are a movie lover and spend a lot of time watching Netflix, here are several ways to lower your data usage. The best way is to download movies and shows in advance with Wi-Fi as it might take all of your Airtel Smartbytes data for downloading just a TV show. Sadly, this option is not available for all movies and shows. However, you can still give up a bit of the resolution of the shows or movies instead. 

• Open menu in the bottom right corner
• Tap App Settings
• Select ‘Cellular Data Usage’ then choose ‘Save Data’.

How to lower data usage in Facebook

Social media apps can eat a lot of mobile data with auto-playing videos and photos. Fortunately, you can still enable the data saver option on most of the apps. As for Facebook, it allows users to both stop videos from auto-playing and reduce the image quality. 

• Open the Menu in the top right corner
• Tap Data Saver and switch it to ‘On’
• You can also choose to turn off the feature when connected to Wi-Fi

How to lower data usage in Instagram

Instagram is full of videos and photos, which will eat a lot of your Smartbytes Airtel data. There is an option available on the app exclusively for Mobile data.

• Select the profile icon in the bottom-right corner
• Tap Settings
• Select Account
• Tap Cellular Data Use and switch it to ‘On’

How to lower data usage in Twitter

• Select the profile icon in the top-right corner
• Tap Settings & Privacy
• Select Data usage
• Switch Data saver box from ‘Off’ to ‘On’

How to enable Data Saver Mode

If you are having a serious issue with data usage, then the Data Saver Mode can be a great help. The feature allows you to stop pretty much all apps' background activity on your device.

Android 7 Nougat to Android 9 Pie

• Tap Settings
• Select Network and Internet
• Tap Data Usage
• Select Data Saver
• Toggle the option in the upper-right corner

If you want to exempt certain apps from the restrictions, tap 'Unrestricted data'.

Android Q

• Tap Settings
• Select Network and Internet
• Tap Data Saver
• Toggle 'Use Data Saver' from White to Blue

Just like Android Pie, you can also remove the restrictions on certain apps by tapping on "Unrestricted data".

How To Save Data For Airtel Smartbytes For iOS Devices?

The most efficient way to save your Smartbytes Airtel data is to turn off cellular data usage and use Wi-Fi only. 

How to disable mobile data

• Tap Settings.
• Select ‘Cellular’ 
• Switch ‘Cellular Data’ from ‘On’ to ‘Off’

You should also change disable LTE & roaming in the cellular data options. It can be very useful when you are traveling to another country as it can help you avoid roaming charges.

How to disable LTE & roaming 

• Tap Settings
• Select ‘Cellular’
• Tap ‘Cellular Data Options’
• Select ‘Enable LTE’
• Switch it to ‘Off’ (you can also change it to work only with ‘Data’ instead of ‘Voice and Data’).
• Go back to the ‘Cellular Data Options’
• Switch ‘Voice and Data Roaming’ to ‘Off’.

How to turn off background data usage 

Background data also eats a lot of your data and you might not even know your apps are doing that.

• Tap Settings
• Tap General
• Select Background App Refresh

You can choose to switch to Wi-Fi or ‘Off’ to turn off the feature completely.

How to turn off Wi-Fi assist

You can also turn off the Wi-Fi assist feature, which is also a silent killer of your mobile data. In case you don’t know what it is, the Wi-Fi assist feature allows the phone to automatically switch to cellular whenever the Wi-Fi signal is not in good condition. 

• Tap Settings
• Tap ‘Cellular’
• Scroll down and find ‘Wi-Fi Assist’
• Switch it from Green to White

How to prevent certain apps to use cellular

Finally, you can also limit certain apps from using cellular, especially those that use a ton of data. For example, you can prevent several apps that you don’t use too often from connecting to cellular to save your Airtel Smartbytes data.

• Tap Settings
• Tap ‘Cellular’
• Scroll down to find ‘Cellular Data’ subheading
• You will see a list containing all apps installed on your device. Scroll through that list and turn off any app that you don’t want it to use your cellular automatically.

You have just gone through the most useful ways to save your Smartbytes Airtel data for both Android and iOS devices. Hopefully, they can be a great help to you.

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