How much data does FaceTime consume? Is it a heavy data usage app?
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How much data does FaceTime consume? Is it a heavy data usage app?
I really can’t say it consumes a lot of data as the amount of data FaceTime uses depends on your device, the speed of your cellular network. If your cellular connection is slow then the video quality will automatically decrease and use less data. On average FaceTime uses 5-10 Mb per minute on Wi-Fi and around 2-20 Mb per minute on a cellular network. Thus, if you’re making a 4 to 5 minutes call, it won’t ruin your data plan.
I think apple has done a lot of modifications with the FaceTime feature. It used to consume really lots of data before but that has changed. There’s an easy way to see how much cellular data any particular app has used on your phone. Go to Settings, then go to Cellular and scroll down until you see the app in question, in this case, FaceTime. If you’ve never reset these statistics, this will be a historic reference for how much data it has consumed since the last reset.