topic Re: Extreme data usage while on WiFi and/or offline in Android

Extreme data usage while on WiFi and/or offline

heyjaypay — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:24:52 GMT

I have noticed in the last couple months that Spotify has been eating up my data like no other app on my Samsung s6. I never stream music using data because I either listen on WiFi or download music for listening offline, so imagine my surprise when I looked at my data usage and found that Spotify has chewed up 300Mb of my 2Gb/month data plan. All of the data used is foreground data, but I restricted background data anyways thinking it would help. The next month I payed special attention to make sure I was connected to WiFi before streaming music, but it was to no avail as Spotify again used 250Mb of data for no apparent reason. I am completely baffled and upset that spotify is using my precious data when I am 100% sure I am using WiFi or playing downloaded music. Any advice or solutions to this problem would be appreciated.

Edit: Just checked my data usage and not even two days into my cycle and spotify has already used 11Mb of data.

Re: Extreme data usage while on WiFi and/or offline

user-removed — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:50:59 GMT

Try turning off the mobile data from the phone settings or swipe down from the top of the phone then find and tap the data button off.

Re: Extreme data usage while on WiFi and/or offline

heyjaypay — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:03:35 GMT

Turning off data is the obvious "solution" to using data, but I need my data on for other apps that I use on my phone. Constantly turning on and off my data when I want to listen on Spotify is time consuming and annoying.

Re: Extreme data usage while on WiFi and/or offline

user-removed — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:02:02 GMT

Do you have offline mode switched on in spotify settings.