iOS Data Saving should not stop with turning off Wi-Fi Assist

With the release of iOS 9 many articles have been written about turning off Wi-fi Assist, and they all are relative when it comes to helping save you’re Cellular Data usage. 

For a quick refresher on this part of thing, the instructions on turning off Wi-fi Assist is as simple as 

settings > Cellular > Wi-Fi Assist and make sure the toggle is not green, as seen in this image

However, while you, the user, are in the Cellular menu, this might be a good time to also do a full audit of just what does use Cellular Data on an app by app basis

As you can see in this image below, A number of your Apps all have the available option to use your data or turn it off so that it only connects when on Wi-Fi, with each App having it’s own toggle switch. 

This allows one to see not only which apps are using Data, but if you have an app that you know you do not use when out of the house or office you can turn off Data while keeping the option to reactivate Data when needed. A good example of this from the image being the Chromecast app.

As the Chromecast App is used to control one’s Chromecast device on their home Wi-Fi network, it really serves no purpose having Cellular Data information turned on.

So, go ahead, take a moment to audit your Data permissions on your iOS device and I think you will find some savings to your Data usage.