Restrict Background Data When Roaming on a Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to restrict background data when roaming while using a Microsoft Lumia 535.

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   To begin, turn the phone ON by pressing the Power button located on the right-hand side of the screen

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   Swipe the lock screen up to take us to the Home Screen

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   Next, we are going to swipe down to bring up the notification panel

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   We want to press All Settings located on the upper middle-right part of the screen.

   

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   Now, you can see the Settings menu

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   We want to scroll down until we find Data Sense - press Data Sense.

   

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   We have some options

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   One option we want to look at today in this video is to restrict background data when roaming. This option will allow you to pause or restrict the flow of data between background applications when you are roaming. This means things like the Weather, or things that activate the Store application that gives suggestions about new apps to buy - all of these are running in the background. They are taking up data and room. They are actually connected to the internet in order to give you an instant update when you are checking your emails or things like that. Even if you are not aware that you are doing it, it will still cost you money and it will be expensive if you are using roaming costs. This feature helps turn off and restrict those background applications from exchanging data with the internet.

   

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   We want to control that through this option here that restricts background data when roaming

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   Swipe on the switch to turn the feature ON. This allows us to be more in charge of the applications on the phone so as not to spend so much money on roaming costs.

   

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   If we want to turn this off when we are back in our own country or we are back somewhere where we have an established internet provider whom we have a contract with, or we actually have a fixed bill, we can just swipe the switch back to OFF then we will be able to use our internet settings like we always do

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   This concludes our tutorial on how to restrict background data when roaming on a Microsoft Lumia 535

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   This will help save you some money. It's a good idea to try to implement this in the future.

   

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I need to restrict background data on my phone?

I have purchased data yesterday for 30 days but I have none left today I also need to know what does roaming mean. I have tried: I have tried to restrict them by enabling restrict background data when roaming. I think it was caused by: I don't know

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