#LegitLists: See 7 Mobile Apps That Consume The Most Data. (You Use No.2 Every Time)

Although the mobile applications that consume the most data typically are the ones we use the most. For several people it could be Facebook, Instagram, Youtube or possibly Netflix.

However, in this post we have decided to look deeper into some of the top social media apps that consume the most data.

Here are seven mobile apps that consume the most data;

7. Facebook

Facebook is one of the social media application that consumes your data, although it’s consumption rate is not as much as some other social media applications. But if you scroll through the video section or auto-play videos your data gets consumed quickly. The remedy is to stop auto-playing videos or avoid visiting the video section because you could get glued to it, and this gets your data used up rapidly.

6. Snapchat

Snapchat is another mobile application that eats up data quickly. Snapchat preload Stories and Snaps so that they immediately appear when you check your feed. And this alone consumes a lot of data.

5. Twitter

Twitter doesn’t consume a lot of data if you only scroll through your news feed without watching any video. However, it’s data consumption rate is high if you spend a longer period of time using it or if you put videos on auto-play.

4. Google Chrome

Google Chrome is rated as the mobile browser with the highest data consumption rate. Browsing through about 10 widely-sized webpages a day can consume a lot of data.

3. YouTube

One mobile application that assuredly consumes the most data is YouTube. The movie and video streaming application eats up a lot of data because it does nothing but plays videos, and this can rapidly consume your data. However you can reduce the quality of your videos for a lesser data consumption rate.

2. Instagram

Social-media sites, especially those like Instagram that are image and video heavy also use a lot of data, especially if its users are not only browsing, but also uploading their own images and videos.

1. Whatsapp

Back in the days (just before the inclusion of the Whatsapp Status feature) Whatsapp used to be the social media application with the least data consumption rate, you could consume just around 50mb of data using whatsapp for a whole day. But with the inclusion of the Status feature, you can spend up to 1 Gigabyte of data a day, especially if you have contacts who are inconsiderate and post videos of large size.