Snapchat Update Causing App To Chew Through Data

Snapchat is often a litany of updates and issues, and that pattern has repeated itself with this latest update. If you've recently updated the app, and have also noticed your data usage has skyrocketed, the two might be related, at least if reports from other users prove to be a trend. Following the update released in late January, users have started noticing that Snapchat is using quite a bit of background data, enough to deplete some users' monthly data allotment in a week or two.

Some users have cropped up claiming that Snapchat has chewed through more than a gigabyte of data in a single week, eclipsing the foreground data amount, forcing users to downgrade to a previous version to cut off the data flow.

XDA Developers points toward the January 27 update's inclusion of "Discover", a new feature that makes it easy for users to discover content from third-parties like MTV. That feature could also be responsible for the excessive data usage. So far no official explanation has been forthcoming.

If you've likewise been afflicted with the problem, you've a few different solutions until Snapchat pushes out a fix, the most common of which being either restricting background data or uninstalling the latest update and sticking with the previous version for a while.

VIA: Android Police