Boy, have I learnt an expensive lesson !

[Montysmum]

Hi Everybody, 

Haven;t chatted for a while, hope you're all fit & healthy. Well after 6 months you'd think i'd have got the hang of this smart phone thing would'nt you ? well apparantly not. I went to bed last night with around 8GB of data left on my phone, checked if it needed charging, no, closed it up, left on standby as i always do, all is well, went to bed. However at 7am this morning boy,did I get a shock, opened my phone to the messages that not only had i run out of offer data but I had also run out of big bundle data too, I must have forgotton to close the internet pages I was looking at & whilst I was  sleeping thay were busy at work eating up my 8GB of data, so have now had to purchase an add on, although I'm sure I'll need a few more before my next big bundle renewal at the end of the month, would'nt have cared so much but I only topped up last week. Not to worry there's nothing I can do abought it only learn not to do it again. Gormlous or what? Hope the rest of the day's not going to follow suit. Love to you all

Montysmum

[Montysmum]

Thanks for watching my back Cleoriff, I'll keep in touch & let you know what happens. I'm keeping a close eye on everything & checking my usage every few hours & so far so good

[Montysmum]

thanks for your advice Bambino, have followed your thread & done that now, hopefully I'll  be sorted soon

[Montysmum]

Hey Folks,  FOUND IT .  It was Sky News who used 7.91GB of Data running in the background overnight. So have unticked the box which allows the app to use mobile data whilst running in the background, d'you think this'll help, can't think of anything else to do at the moment but i'll give it some more thought tomorrow, or could it be maybe that i did'nt close sky news after last looking at it last night ? I don't know, my mind's befuddled now will look again tomorrow but in the meanwhile thanks all for your help today

[Cleoriff]

I think you have done all you can for now @Montysmum 

Apps should only be updated over Wifi. My mobile data is turned off unless I am out of a WiFi area.

See how it goes but I'm sure your data usage should be better now.

[MI5]

That's a serious flaw in that app but well done for finding it.
There are other news apps available so I'd be deleting it and using something else personally.