How to stop Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat from eating up your data

Hidden settings let you restrict social media apps from draining your precious LTE data

It’s a simple equation: More time in social media feeds + more video in them = Major mobile data drain.

Video is the biggest eater of your monthly mobile data allotment, yet Facebook and Twitter have new live video features. Snapchat is teeming with 10-second video clips from your friends. And Instagram pretty much just ripped off Snapchat.

So how do you protect your precious GBs? Sure, you can get an unlimited data plan, or jump on a Wi-Fi network, but you should also take advantage of these hidden settings in each of the social media apps, which limit video