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mcbizco OP t1_jaaex7q wrote

Reply to comment by cedarpangolin in iMessage using way too much data by mcbizco

Don’t think so, yeah it was definitely alarming. At least it wasn’t using that much yesterday. Some serious bug or something. But still making 10mb disappear off my data plan to “messaging services” every message I sent yesterday. Gonna talk to apple when I get the chance. In no world does a text based iMessage use that much data.

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cedarpangolin t1_jaaf8yg wrote

Wait, your original post says 100mb per message, now you said 10mb per message. Which is it?

Either way it’s way too much - and this is for a plain text only message?

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mcbizco OP t1_jaag28h wrote

a week ago, I noticed it was eating up 100 mb per message so I turned off iMessage, updated my phone to the latest iOS release and waited for my data plan to roll over to the next period (because this bug ate up most of it). Yesterday I tested it again and it’s now eating 10mb per message, which is better, but still wayyyyy too much data.

And yeah, just plain text. The word “Test” as an iMessage caused a consumption of 7mb of “messaging services” data. Something definitely wrong.

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