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.
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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.
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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.