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Instagram is one of those applications that we have gone from using once in a while to opening it every day and uploading to it a lot of content. Stories are a huge success on Facebook's multimedia platform and chatting through it is already commonplace. For most young people, Instagram is their “Facebook” and the data expenditure of this platform is considerable.
It is difficult to provide you with a fixed figure of how much data you consume and spend on Instagram but after doing several tests we can have an approximation of its data consumption.After long sessions with Instagram and checks, we offer you an orientation of the amount of data you spend on Instagram in relation to the number of photos or Stories you see. We will also talk about the direct ones, which are important on the platform and with data consumption to take into account.
How many MB do we spend on Instagram?
In order to specify the most approximate data of data expenditure on Instagram we have carried out several tests and drawn several conclusions. The first, clarify that Instagram spends data based on the resolution of your phone. The network stores photographs with a maximum width of 1080 pixels and a minimum width of 640 pixels. These photos can be anywhere from 30kb to 300kb or even more at their largest size.
From this we extract that the average expense for each photograph that we view on Instagram is 200 kb. In short, every 5 photos we see in Instagram feeds we can spend between 1 MB or 2 MBIf we see 1000 photos every day (many do and even reach higher numbers), the expense could be 200 MB. But don't forget that this expense is indicative since not all the photographs occupy the same amount on Instagram.
We must bear in mind that videos occupy even more on Instagram. The videos do not have a fixed size either, but we can establish a figure of 3 MB on average for the typical Stories of a few seconds with video The images of the Stories, on the contrary , normally occupy less than the images we see in Instagram News.
Regarding the uploading of images this depends entirely on the type of mobile we use to upload the images and what they occupy . If we upload an image with a lot of detail it will occupy more than a low quality image.The application edits them before uploading them to the Internet, so the expense is a little less.
How much data does an Instagram live use?
Instagram directs also spend a lot of data. The expense of Instagram data watching videos or direct is very similar to what we can do watching YouTube videos. We can estimate this amount of data at about 10 MB for each minute of live that we see. This means that 100 MB of data would only serve us for 10 minutes of video. Luckily, many companies have promotions to prevent social networks from spending rate data.
Currently, Instagram has become one of the applications that spends the most data on users' mobiles and it is important to take it into account so as not to scare us at the end of the month. The WiFi connection should be a great ally when using Instagram.
How to prevent Instagram from consuming so much data?
To avoid such aggressive data spending on Instagram, it is important to mention that the application integrates an option that allows us to save data. To activate it you just have to do the following:
- Enter “Settings”.
- Locate the "Mobile data usage" option.
- Mark the "Use less data" switch.
This option has a very simple mission. Instagram uploads your images and videos before you see them, to give you a fast and smooth experience. With this option checked, Instagram doesn't preload posts you haven't seen yet and it can help you save a lot of GB although the experience will be worse and sometimes the posts will take longer to load.The images will also be loaded in worse quality and with mobiles that have a very good resolution, this loss of quality could be noticed, not being so noticeable in the Stories and direct.
