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.

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.

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.

However, most streaming services include options that automatically change your stream quality (and how much you download) based on your bandwidth.

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

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.

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 .

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

However, this also means Apple TV+ uses a lot of data. Here’s how to change the playback quality settings to save on data usage, especially useful if you are streaming on cellular with data caps.