PSA: Snapchat could be guzzling your data after latest update, but a fix is on the way
It isn’t often we see popular apps such as Snapchat pegged with serious experience-breaking issues, but when it does it’s only right to inform everyone. The latest version of Snapchat — which added a news discovery feature — might be eating up a ridiculous amount of your data.
Many on Reddit and Google+ have reported that the app is eating up multiple gigabytes of data in the background (when the app isn’t being used) as opposed to the foreground. Some users found that it chewed through 2GB of data in just a week, and 6GB of data in just under a month. Some extreme cases show the app using upwards of 20GB of data in a week and 40GB in just under a month.
We’re not sure if all these reports are entirely true, but the good news is that Snapchat has acknowledged an issue that causes increased data usage and has already started addressing the issues in the latest beta version of the app. There’s no telling how long it’ll take for those changes to make their way to stable, but short of uninstalling the app from your phone grabbing the beta is the best route to go for the time being.
Now would be a pretty good time to head to your settings menu to check out mobile data usage to see if your version of Snapchat is affected by the bug, and to check your wireless account to make sure it hasn’t absolutely obliterated your data plan.