There are several ways to stay connected to each other during lockdown, one of which is instant messaging app WhatsApp. This app has more than 2 billion users all over the world. There are many features in this app, from messaging to WhatsApp Calling, which are very popular among users.
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Not only calling and messaging, but from audio sharing to multimedia content, users can share it with their friends. But every feature of this app runs on data. In such a situation, it also spends more data to give better video and voice calling facility to the user. If you do not have Wi-Fi, it can kill your cellular data quickly.
WhatsApp Calling: WhatsApp video and voice calling are fasting data quickly
As long as the lock down goes on, people will remain imprisoned in their homes. People will have phone, social media to pass time. WhatsApp is a famous app that people use in large amounts every day. Not only voice and video calling, but sharing audio also consumes a lot of your data up to multimedia content, which reduces your internet speed considerably.
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In such a situation, when internet data has become so important at the time of lockdown, there is also a way to reduce WhatsApp data consumption which we are telling you here. This will make your app use less data.
WhatsApp Calling: Guide How to reduce mobile data consumption
You have to take following given simple steps to easily reduce more data consumption :
- First open WhatsApp and tap on the three dots in the top right corner and click on Settings.
- Tap on the data and storage usage option. Here you will see at the bottom, you will get the option of low data usage. Turn it on
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- Apart from this, turn off the media auto-download feature as well. For this, you can either select When connected on Wi-Fi. Or turn off both When connected on Wi-Fi and When using Mobile Data.
- By doing this, whatever video, audio, document or photo comes to you, it will not be downloaded automatically. It will not cost too much data. In such a situation, if you want to download a video, audio, document or photo, you can do it manually.
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