While issues with Pokemon GO draining smartphone battery have been well publicised, how much the app gobbles up has yet to be explored.
That was until tech writer Antonio Villas-Boas carried out some tests to see exactly how much data Pokemon GO actually uses.
Villas-Boas looked at how much the app used over an eight-hour period – most of that time he said he was tied down to his desk but he did ‘walk around a little bit’.
After the eight hours, he found that the app had only used 25 megabytes – just over 3 megabytes per hour.
To put that figure into comparison, one hour of browsing social media sites like Snapchat and Facebook will consume around 90 megabytes, he added.
He concluded, in a piece published on Business Insider, that: ‘Pokemon GO’s low data usage is a great thing considering the game is meant to be played outside where you’re less likely to connect to a WiFi connection.’
He believes that this is because the app isn’t downloading any photographs,pre-loading any stories and not auto-playing videos.
Instead, Pokemon GO relies on GPS, which may be bad for your phone’s battery but has low data demand. Great news.
