Comments on: How Much iPhone 3G Data Are You Using Now?

By: Armando

Armando — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:35:25 +0000

Hello will $60 unlimited Voice, Text with 150 MEGS will work for you? How about $39.95 CDMA Unlimited Voice and text and GSM $40 unlimited Voice and Text. You can keep what you already have just pay less, keep your number, keep your phone, no credit checks and no contacts, taxes included.

By: Roo

Roo — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:05:41 +0000

Usage is 1h23m Standby is 1hr 49m

Sent is 431mb Receieved is 12.6gb

I restore every month or so and backup my call history folder via ssh, among other things, in order to preserve this data. This 12.6gb is over 5 months, so in reality I don't use that much data. A lot of it is radio streaming.

By: Marc Tew

Marc Tew — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:22:41 +0000

Had my iPhone replaced 2 months ago, now sent 13.5mb received 61mb. Im on O2, also work for O2 and our fair usage is apparantly 200mb per billing month. I KNOW I’ve gone over that a lot with my old iPhone and never had a single complaint from O2. Sound like AT&T suck tbh.

By: Mdwdirect

Mdwdirect — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:14:08 +0000

Lifetime reads 8 days, 10 hours Sent 80.8 mb Rec’d 1.4 GB Mostly email while on 3G. YouTube and streaming video while on wifi. I expected more actually. To those constant whiners-instead of complaining, do something productive…Leave AT&T or start your own cell phone service.

By: Kael

Kael — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:25:23 +0000

last reset… never got phone in december… lifetime calling 9 hours and 12 min cell network data: sent… 91 mb received… 825 not that that includes all data use from what i understand the usage page doesn`t show your email usage or something like that.

By: iSkythe

iSkythe — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:24:15 +0000

Sent: 62.3mb

Received: 1 GB

By: frog

frog — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:11:23 +0000

I’ve never used more than about 500mb a month, typical usage is around 300mb

By: James

James — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:23:36 +0000

I haven’t reseted my data usage…I’ve got about 2.1 GB received, and like 200 MB sent.

By: sean

sean — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:16:42 +0000

Oh nvm. I jest read the the thing under reset statistics in the usage bar. It’s since 1/12/08 at 5:36 PM

By: sean

sean — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:13:31 +0000

Sent: 196 MB

Received: 1.6 GB

Hahahahahahah Im only 13…

Btw. Does that mean how much I’ve used in the time since my last charge? Or in my phones total lifetime?

By: Bjern

Bjern — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:53:06 +0000

Mine is on the EDGE network though.

By: Bjern

Bjern — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:50:28 +0000

166 MB sent 2 GB received

By: iamse7en

iamse7en — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:42:24 +0000

Sent: 376 MB Received: 4.3 GB (mainly from a few torrents I’ve downloaded the last couple of weeks) Torrentula!

By: Ivoryplum

Ivoryplum — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:39:19 +0000

@Zeeshan – I use my iPhone all throughout the day on a single charge. Couldn’t tell you the last time I had to plug it in during the day. And generally I have 20-40% battery life left. Are you heavily using your phone…?

By: Ivoryplum

Ivoryplum — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:37:13 +0000

I’ve had my iPhone since September ’08. I use it the most at home, or at work, or when I visit my mom. All 3 places have wifi. I bet AT&T is ecstatic that theres wifi in these things. haha.

Lifetime: Sent – 25.6mb Received – 657mb

By: Danny Rodri

Danny Rodri — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:48:05 +0000

@Zeeshan I was shocked when I saw the screenshot as well and was about to ask, How come you get such long battery life?

By: fassy

fassy — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:20:12 +0000

Typically between 200MB-600MB a month, depending on time spent in wifi hotspots. While I browse in Safari a lot, the bulk of the bandwidth usage is probably OTA podcast downloads and internet radio.

By: Dionte

Dionte — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:10:33 +0000

over At&t less than 500 megs

By: Zeeshan

Zeeshan — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:10:13 +0000

Hi Rene, i have a question regarding your Screenshot above, how come your iPhone usage says its 7 Hours & 3 Mins and still you have more than 50% battery life left?

Is there something i am missing as i seldome get more than 5 Hours of usage on one charge!

I am really intrested to know this as if thats the case then i might have to get my iPhone 3G checked at the apple store!

By: Al

Al — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:09:08 +0000

I’ve used a little over 4GB total which is about 400 MB each month

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:33:29 +0000

My cycle goes from 18th to 18th, 554.71MB. And I HATE ATT!!!

By: RanMan

RanMan — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:30:55 +0000

Lifetime 4 days 5 hours Sent 109 MB Received 1.9 GB

Mainly email for me.

By: Muero

Muero — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:08:56 +0000

It just so happens that today is the last day of my AT&T billing cycle, and the AT&T iPhone app reports I’ve used 562 megabytes this month.

By: dondada

dondada — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:03:16 +0000

Sent: 179MB Received: 4.3GB

Never hit the reset button, bought 3g phone on the day it came out...

By: Muero

Muero — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:59:55 +0000

I can't believe how clueless the readers of this blog are. They're confused why there's a difference between the data usage counter on te iPhone (all-time cumulative, unless manually reset) versus what AT&T reports (monthly)? They think data use stats get reset every time you charge the phone? They think it's counting WiFi data, when it's clearly listed under Cellular Network Data?

Please, everyone, watch the movie Idiocracy. If you understand its message, you will do the honorable thing and commit suicide for the sake of the non-stupid people.

By: Dyvim

Dyvim — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:46:39 +0000

Guys (e.g. @6,10,13,22,30), the Cellular Network Data usage isn’t per billing period nor is it since your last full charge. It’s since you last pressed Reset Statistics, or since you purchased your phone if you’ve never pressed that button. It will tell you when your last Reset was below the Reset Statistics button (scroll down).

By: Christin

Christin — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:31:19 +0000

My stats say sent 408mb recieved 8.8gb. Not sure what time period that's for, it says usage time 7 days ,

I use pandora when I'm at my desk at work and stream tv shows off of NBC and you tube.

By: Adina

Adina — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:10:37 +0000

Sent: 135 MB Received: 4.0 GB

By: Jeffrey Talajic

Jeffrey Talajic — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:03:30 +0000

About 400mb a month according to my bill. And I have a 6gb plan! Because it kills the battery so much I pretty much never use wifi.

By: Apple Lover

Apple Lover — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:56:07 +0000

mine has never been reset so since like novemeber

call time = 4 days 13 hours sent 40mb received 385mb

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:52:40 +0000

Call Time: 7 Days 22 Hours Lifetime Data: Sent 417 MB Received 9.5 GB

By: Dyvim

Dyvim — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:48:15 +0000

Since 12/31/08 (so basically all of 2009) Sent: 34.9 MB Received: 800 MB I’m sure AT&T loves me since that’s spread out over 4.5 months. Mostly I use my iPhone around the house via WiFi. But the 3G sure is nice when I’m away from home.

By: Kevin Starks

Kevin Starks — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:58 +0000

Sent 130 MB. Received 3.6 GB

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:26:59 +0000

Since April 24:

16.4MB Up 361MB Down

By: Jay Holler

Jay Holler — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:20:00 +0000

I’m at 4.2 GB down and 350MB up. Not sure on the time period, but I use my phone for browsing twitter facebook and remotely accessing servers all day long.

By: Latestarter05

Latestarter05 — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:12:14 +0000

Since January 09 sent 25.9mb recv’d 275mb.

By: Travist120

Travist120 — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:03:17 +0000

monthly I use around 3GB. Downloading apps, music, streamic music, streaming tv, using Twitter, downloading pics, surfing the web for countless hours, watching YouTube, and downloading books. And recently it’s died down just a bit because I’ve been turning off 3G just to save on battery

By: Demon_1up

Demon_1up — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:55:19 +0000

I have sent 142 MB and received 3.4 GB . Also there is not a discrepancy when your bill and phone dont match , the iPhone tracks all data , including Wifi . Your AT&T bill doesnot track when your on a WIFI network .

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:50:06 +0000

My phone says since 9/1/08: sent 156kb, received 3 GB

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:45:52 +0000

I have sent 284 MB and received 5.9 GB

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:45:41 +0000

Always less than 200MB. Theres WiFi everywhere… and I don’t use my iPhone when I’m sitting at a computer.

By: Clairyoyance

Clairyoyance — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:45:37 +0000

I'm shocked.

Sent : 0 bytes Recieved : 0 bytes Why?

By: Rukasu

Rukasu — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:43:39 +0000

Sent: 220MB, Received: 4.9GB since August ’08

By: lagmefragme

lagmefragme — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:37:04 +0000

I have a similarly horrid descrepency between what the iPhone says and what the AT&T website says. At first I thought it was because of wifi usage… but I left wifi off for awhile an the results are the same. The iPhone always has much much higher received data… you think it is counting voice phone calls as received “cellular network data”?

By: noob

noob — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:33:20 +0000

314 mb sent ; 14.1 GB received

By: Gridfire

Gridfire — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:29:45 +0000

I always seem to be in places with WiFi, so mine stands at 9.8MB sent and 144MB received on cell data.

By: OmariJames

OmariJames — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:27:05 +0000

According to my AT&T bill ( so far ) 314.28Mb

According to my iPhone usage. 249Mb ( sent ) 3.5Gb ( receive ) 0_o

Kinda of confusing but I think that's from my 'last charge' , which was this morning.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:26:01 +0000

Since July 2008 – sent 150 MB, received 1.7 GB – which really doesn’t seem like that much (most of my heavy usage is over wifi).

By: k0m0d0

k0m0d0 — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:24:06 +0000

Total usage (since Sept 2008)

Sent: 130 MB Received: 2.7 GB

By: Jeffdc5

Jeffdc5 — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:22:51 +0000

I use a lot of data Sent 76.8 Mb received 1.8 GB

By: Mugunth Kumar

Mugunth Kumar — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:22:19 +0000

This thing is actually a crap... I use about 550MB of data every month according to my carrier. But iPhone always reports my usage to be way higher. My iPhone reports it to be around 1.2GB of download every month.

I've raised a report to Apple. But still it has not been fixed. I think Apple has purposely made this to report an insanely high value so that AT&T users will stop using their 3G network fearing high usage rates.

By: EAbramson

EAbramson — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:14:34 +0000

As I said before, no one purchased an iPhone to make calls. ATT should be aware and is aware of that when THEY signed the contract. The iPhone is so great as a smartphone that any carrier, even Ray-Ray in a trenchcoat with cellular service could sell a million of them. If they intend to raise rate then the Touchbwas probably a better product. Apple’s future ventures should be online with the quality and functionality of their products. The question of rate hikes, fare hikes, toll hikes, mortgage hikes SUCKS!

By: Guinness0514

Guinness0514 — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:05:18 +0000

mine shows I have sent 1.2GB and received 53.6GB. I stream music with Simplify Music all day every day…

By: Danny Lee

Danny Lee — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:00:43 +0000

My usage is showing 42 minutes and Standby 6 hours, 13 minutes.

Sent: 39.1 MB Received: 765MB

By: sting7k

sting7k — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:58:09 +0000

Buttloads of data.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:54:31 +0000

I'm a brand new iphone 3g user here in Sweden via Telia.

The first month I somehow used 1gb of data within 3 days of buying the phone. For the rest of the month I used about 550 mb.

So far this month (the 2nd) I've used about 350 mb of data.

Both months are higher than what we might normally use as we just moved across the country before buying the phone and don't have regular Internet access here. So the phone is representing 99% of our total Internet usage.