If you changed your messaging app after what happened with WhatsApp privacy, you may want to know how much data Signal consumes and it is also necessary to control consumption in the background, as well as what is used to send messages, calls and video calls from this platform.
Initially, Signal had a bad reputation in terms of data consumption , this was due to the fact that the app carried out constant updates in the background, to keep conversations and all conversations up to date and with an immediacy of almost real time. functions of your service.
This constant update caused a scandalous consumption of both mobile and WiFi data and the result was that at the end of a month, you could see data use in your average rate of 1.5 to 2 GB only by this app.
Telegram and Signal overtake WhatsApp in app stores
Data consumption in Signal currently
This problem in the consumption of Signal data was solved a few years ago and was handled by its developers as a failure in the platform and not as an intentional action, because finally Signal could be the most secure messaging , but also the most expensive in terms of to consumption.
Currently, we can see that Signal uses approximately 96 kbps per second in calls and twice that in video calls , for each message sent it uses an average of approximately 12 Kbps.
When we see the consumption of data for sending files , photos, audios and videos, it is handled in a different way. As in all messaging apps, these files will have a consumption according to their original weight, in the case of photos they are optimized to a much lower percentage of their original weight, but it will also depend on the initial file.
As you can see, Signal consumes less data than WhatsApp and also consumes less data than Telegram , ranking first in this regard among the three platforms
