So my 31 year old daughter has been mostly out of town, then in the hospital, since I got Hughesnet. I had no data issues with just me and my 10/50 plan.
After the neighbor family moved in, and their kiddos used up my data in a week with video games and YouTube, I banned the two youngest kids from the internet and upgraded to the 20/50 plan, as the dad was planning to take some online college courses. All was well in my dataverse again, lol.
Then my dear daughter came home. She lives on Facebook. I already knew, from reading this forum, that FB is a huge data sucker. She is using 4%-5% of my data daily. You don't have to be smarter than a fifth grader to realize the data will run out before the month does.
I thought I had the solution from these very archives: turn off autoplay for videos and install Facebook purity. But here's the kicker: she doesn't use her computer; she uses her iPhone. FB purity, while it is compatible with Safari, can't be installed on an iPhone. And, try as I might, I could not find a way to turn off autoplay for videos.
What I did do is turn off everything I possibly could: games, as many ads as possible, anything "extra" that runs inside FB. So it's a leaner, meaner FB, but I'm afraid it may not be enough.
I told Joy to use FB as she normally would tomorrow, so I can see if what I did is enough. (And I must say that she is being a really great sport about this!).
I'm reaching out to y'all to ask if any of you have found ways to reduce the amount of data consumed by FB specifically on iPhones. The three minors now living under my roof don't sit on laptops all day--they sit on their phones. So I'm assuming that's what kids do and thus, hoping one of you out there have found solutions I haven't been able to find.
If I can't resolve this, my only choice is to restrict the amount of time she can be on FB. While I'd have no problem doing that if she were a kid, she's a grown adult and I hate being the "data police" around here!
HELP! 🙂