Streaming music on Apple Music can become expensive if you use cellular data.
We’ll show you how.
How Much Data Does Apple Music Use?
To understand this, we must consider Apple Music’s sound quality.
For starters, Apple Music supports different audio qualities.
The lowest quality available on Apple Music isHigh Efficiency, consuming just 1.5MB of data for a three-minute song.
Lossless streams audio up to 24-bit at 48kHz and consumes 36MB for a three-minute song.
The highest quality on Apple Music isHi-Res Losslesswhich streams files up to 24-bit at 192kHz.
You, therefore, save data.
Downloading music is the ultimate solution to save data, but you may also want to stream music sometimes.
In that case, reduce your streaming quality to save cellular data.
To do this, open theSettings app> Music > Audio Quality > Mobile Data Streamingand selectHigh Efficiency.
To disable this functionality, bring up the controls app, scroll down and selectMusic.
On the next page, scroll down to theDownloadssection and toggle offDownload over Mobile Data.
As you probably guessed, animated covers consume more data.
To reduce data usage, you oughta turn off Animated Art while streaming music using cellular data.
initiate the controls app and go toMusic, then navigate toAnimated Artand select it.
On the next page, selectWi-Fi Only.
By default, Apple Music plays animated art on Wi-Fi and cellular data.
It’s a simple kill switch that blocks Apple Music’s access to your data.
