Mobile Data: If you are mindful of your mobile data usage, consider the quality settings when streaming or downloading. Lower quality settings can significantly reduce data consumption.

In this article, we’ll show how much data streaming services consume, along with the comparison of streaming and downloading.

Video streaming is more complicated than music streaming since obviously both video and audio quality are factors here. However, each of the major services uses up roughly the same amount of data.

Let’s take a closer look at how much data some of today’s biggest streaming platforms actually use for live TV and your favorite shows.

The size of your data footprint depends on the apps you use. Streaming movies and downloading files consume more data than simple messaging or reading news.

How much data your Netflix account uses while streaming varies on your connection and the account settings you can access to change your data usage.

Video platforms consume the most data, such as binge watching shows on Netflix, followed by social media apps.

Depending on how often you browse social media apps over a cellular connection, they can use up as much data as streaming music.

The apps that use the most data typically are the apps that you use the most. For a lot of people, that's Facebook , Instagram , Netflix , Snapchat , Spotify , Twitter and YouTube .

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 offers stunning visuals, especially when using the streaming mode to download images as part of photogrammetry feature. But this obvious results in a lot of data usage.