If you're facing higher bills or find your data speeds being throttled due to excessive usage, here's what you can do to curb apps using data in the background.

Some apps take advantage of background data. Jack Wallen shows you how to disable this in certain apps and prevent your data from being gobbled up.

You don't have to worry about losing your saved data and cache, though, as force stop doesn't delete them from your device. To force stop YouTube, follow these steps. Open your phone's Settings app.

Several Android apps can share image and video data with third parties without your knowledge. Here's how to prevent that.

This doesn't just happen on Android, but iPhone, too. Here's how to stop it. Recently, a friend asked me for help when he reached 90% of his data usage despite barely using any data.

This step works if you are using an Android phone that requires you to use your Google account, as we are looking to change a setting within Google's settings on the device.