My Data Manager & Security

Edit: one missing feature - rollover data. My mobile company rolls over unused data from the previous month and adds it to the current month’s allowance, but MyDataManager doesn’t have the functionality to deal with this... yet? An essential app for those on limited data plans, and works very well indeed helping you keep track of usage. Need to keep it open and enable location services for it to accurately track your usage, but generally it seems pretty kind to the battery on my SE. Came in very useful when I would have exceeded my data plan, so I took the opportunity to buy a cheap bolt on of extra data, rather than pay through the nose day by day. Highly recommend.

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I have also been using this app for quite awhile and it has been really great. However (and it is a BIG however,) recently my data almost completely disappeared unexpectedly in a few hours after some fairly light app usage. The app didn’t show anything except ‘unidentified app usage.’ I then took it to my network provider who couldn’t work out why it had been consumed so quickly and then I took it directly into the Apple Store who said that THIS APP was responsible! At one stage it consumed almost 5 GIG of data in about 20 mins!!! The ‘unidentified app’ was Data Manager! The reason clearly has something to do with this new compulsive VPN setting and the way the app transfers all your data usage through this app as this did not happen previously with Data Manager. It has been an extremely costly exercise for me and has caused me so much headache over Christmas when I ran out of data 4 days into my first month!! I’ve had to buy new data packs and also borrow an additional phone from someone to use as a hotspot. Extremely costly (both in money and time) having to go to various places including Apple Genius Bar to diagnose and resolve. I also see from the feedback I am not the only one to have this issue. Very very disappointing. I’m sure the developer will have the usual hollow words to follow up “We are sorry for your issue. This does not usually happen. Please contact us...” blah blah.

I have used this for years,recently I haven’t as giffgaff now offer the information that originally wasn’t available (the wasn’t an app back then) and this was great loved the stop watch mode & found it accurate but now it’s not as accurate & is way off target if you use your vpn. I have loads of apps that all want us to use their vpn,like aloha browser. That’s a great browser without the vpn as this was a good data management app until you “gave” us this new feature. I’d rather have the old data counter/stopwatch/timer feature back. If we were going to use a vpn service most of us would choose a dedicated vpn rather than a side show to a browser or data man. It’s just a way to get us onto subscriptions and lord knows I’m not paying anything more. Just keeping an iPhone now is like having a child to support- on top of the carrier monthly fee we now have the arcade & apple music/extra iCloud space,Netflix etc - heaps of other services from apps. It’s easier to use giffgaffs app now to see my data. This is still handy if you swap sims for example but you can’t trust the vpn & if you don’t use it you permanently have a red icon “AT RISK” when there’s no risk at all...

Through installing this app, I was able to monitor HOW MUCH DATA I use each month. I was surprised to learn that I mainly operate on Secured Wi-FI and don’t use much mobile data! - It was ALSO confirmed to me by my mobile provider that I use very little mobile data. As a result I was able to save a lot of money by going on a lower tariff. I’m not sure the app is 100% accurate, it is definitely very close though. Also I’m not keen on giving the app VPN access to monitor which apps use data most (I already have a good idea through my iPhone use & battery usage statistics on my iPhone). However, I’ve found that giving the app PERMISSION to always run in the background, improves the accuracy of my iPhone Data Usage, but drains my battery a little bit. Thanks for reading. I think it’s a very good app that monitors your data use fairly accurately. It also has options to monitor wi-fi and data roaming usage, as well as set limits & alerts & recurring “start & end dates” for mobile phone usage. Great app!

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Edited to say the developers have contacted me to say there is an issue where iOS devices say the app uses more data than it does as it counts it twice. This still seems a lot but maybe not the huge amount it suggests. As the app did not tell me which apps were using the majority of my data it wasn’t for me but it does keep track of how much data you use. Recently updated to iPhone 8 and my phone are through my data allowance in 2 days. Advised to download a data tracker and this one seemed to have good reviews but most apps are unidentified. The ones it recognised were not using much data so it didn’t offer much help. My phone tracker informed me this app had used up 1.4 gb data in about 8 hours so I’m going to delete it now :-(