Today while doing a show I had a discussion with another artist who said he uses Square on his iPhone 6 and always closes the Square app after each sale because it would use up too much data.
I disagreed and am under the belief that it only uses up data when you are processing a transaction. Leaving the Square app, or any other app on when idle does not use up data on you plan...just battery.
I asked others at the show about this and everyone had an opinion and said "I Think" this or that but no one there could say they were 100% positive about their answer.
My opinion is just as everyone else's....not totally 100% positive.
Has anyone researched this and have accurate facts?
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On the iPhone go into settings/cellular to see how much data apps are using. I don't use square anymore so can't see how much it uses on my phone.
In my experience the Square only uses data when transmitting or receiving. I tried to figure it out when I first got it and I think it uses something like 10kb per transaction.
But other apps can always be running. I wanted a weather app so I could see radar when at a show, and discovered it was always using data whether or not I opened it.. No no no no. So uninstall was next.
I did the same thing and deleted a weather app that was constantly running. I've never gone over the 6GB of data limit that I pay for each month...but there is no need to waste data on something that is not necessary.
I had a feeling that the card reader didn't use data when not processing a card but I wanted to know for certain. I always read reviews and blogs where someone asks a question and more than half the people responding say "I think" or "I assume" to someone trying to get an accurate answer to their question. This always causes me to do further research and find out the correct and factual answers