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contango

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Faceache data usage
« on: 27 February, 2015, 10:36:47 pm »
What's with the huge amount of data used by Faceache? We just looked at my wife's data usage and it seems Faceache has used up 950MB of data in a week. Last week it used another 950MB.

She insists she hasn't been watching videos on it, so how the hell does it use a gig every week? Is it just another reason to despise Zuckerberg and his empire?
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SteveC

Re: Faceache data usage
« Reply #1 on: 28 February, 2015, 08:19:46 am »
She may not have been deliberately watching videos, but it is possible for them to be set up to play automatically.
On my iPhone that only happens on wifi, on the iPad it doesn't happen at all, so it's not an obvious setting (I haven't changed the settings on either as far as I know).
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tiermat

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Re: Faceache data usage
« Reply #2 on: 28 February, 2015, 10:03:49 am »
Yup, Auto-play videos

Go to App Settings, scroll down and the setting is obvious, I set it to never after a couple of embarrasing moments when I was scrolling through my fachache feed only for some stupid video to start and blast out music.
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henshaw11

Re: Faceache data usage
« Reply #3 on: 28 February, 2015, 10:17:18 am »
Ta - just turned that off. There was one of those 'xxx likes facebook' bollocks with a video, 'cept the video was just locking up arsebook as it tried to load (poor wifi/mobile data in this bit of the house).
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contango

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Re: Faceache data usage
« Reply #4 on: 28 February, 2015, 11:40:45 pm »
Thanks,  she had autoplay enabled. Stupid default, just one more reason to despise faceache.
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fuaran

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Re: Faceache data usage
« Reply #5 on: 01 March, 2015, 06:54:18 pm »
I think the Facebook app can use a lot of data in the background, even when you are not actually using it. ie checking for notifications etc.
So make sure you switch off data when you're not using it.
Or uninstall the Facebook app, just use the mobile version of the website instead.
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