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# 30-Second Tech Trick: Avoid iPhone Data Overage Charges

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## Video: 30-Second Tech Trick: Avoid iPhone Data Overage Charges

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_Published 2014-08-20. There's nothing quite like the feeling of blowing through your data plan._


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## Transcript

There's really no feeling in the world like blowing through your data limit and getting overage charges from your carrier. When you didn't really do anything wrong. Here's how to fix that though. All we're gonna do is go into Settings, and then Cellular. And you're gonna see a list of apps here. These are all the apps for using your cellular data and you can see which ones you're using the most. Just turn off the ones you don't need to be sucking down data when you're out and about and you can wait till you get home when you're on wi- fi. The feeling is like the opposite of falling in love-- that strong a feeling, but not love.

More like anger

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