How to spend less internet data when using Instagram

As much as the operators offer us rates with more and more data, reaching the end of the month with a fast Internet connection worries us all. Every day, more and more applications need more and more data: videos on Facebook that play by themselves, series and movies to watch on a trip ( although there is the possibility of downloading the content), listening to music with Spotify, games that require Internet connection... In short, any system to save data in our rate is welcome.

Instagram is, today, one of the applications that is most used and consumes the most data, especially for the well-known stories. These ephemeral videos are played one after the other, almost without realizing it, providing us with a great source of entertainment. Videos that, of course, have to be downloaded in order to be played and that use up data. Let's see how to save data on Instagram to make ends meet with data to spare.

Disable automatic video playback on Instagram

That is why Instagram has, in its own settings menu, a switch with which we can reduce the amount of data we spend with it. If we activate this switch, thevideos on our wall will not play automatically unless we are under a WiFi connection.If we have the switch turned off, and we are connected with data, the videos will be activated and we will begin to reduce our rate.

To activate this switch we do the following:

• We open the Instagram application on our mobile phone.
• Let's go to our Instagram page: to do this, press the button with person shape that we have at the bottom of the app.
• Now, click on the menu of three vertical points that we see in the upper right part of the application.
• Here we pull the screen down until we find, in the 'Settings' section, the 'Data saving' section.
• On the 'Data saving' screen, make sure the switch is on.

Activate uploading of photos in basic quality

If you are one of those lovers of classic black and white photography, there is also another trick to avoid spending so much data using Instagram. This does not mean that those of us who take color photos cannot use it, but it is a function that has to do with the quality of the image. A white photograph and black may be less 'annoying' to upload in low quality than a photo with rich, saturated colours.

To activate the upload in basic image quality, we must go, again, to the three-point menu and press, within 'Settings', 'Upload quality '. Here we must activate 'basic'. As you have seen, saving data on Instagram is quite simple.

Opera max, an application to reduce data in apps

In addition to 'Datally', Google's application to save data, we find other similar ones such as Opera Max in the Play Store. As we use the applications on our mobile, Opera Max will suggest efficient ways to use the mobile so that we don't consume more data. With the home screen of the application we can see which utilities are consuming the most data, in addition to informing you about security problems with them.

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In addition, Opera Max offers you a personalized tool to save data in apps like Facebook, as well as having a data compressor to minimize spending with apps like YouTube or Instagram, our protagonist today.

As you can see, it's easy to save data on Instagram or other apps.You just have to do a little research within the application settings and use third-party applications. But remember that these applications, as long as they are from reliable developers and are within the official Android store.