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Old Jul 13, 2014 | 9:15 pm
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Originally Posted by italdesign
OP here. Trip started a few days ago. I followed nmenaker's advice to turn off all excess options and have been monitoring closely. 3 minutes of Google Map or Yelp uses 5 MB. I turn on airplane mode as soon as I'm done.

It's nice to be able to use GPS/location services without data.
sadly, it probably wasn't google maps at all. Unless you're downloading a large area (for local storage) or doing a lot of real time moving it doesn't use much..

Sadly, it was probably the ad database for Yelp, those apps can bring down some substantial data when used. It also tries to cache a lot of data, images, etc for the location you've just queried.

check the cellular use data and see. I got a cappuccino that says google maps used 500kb and yelp 4.5 MB. ;-)
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