Large Cellular Data Use - System Services - 14B2

[mvdw84]

My iPhone 11 Pro Max on iOS 14 Developer Beta 2 has used 2.5gb of cellular data in 3 days. Usually I use that amount of data in a month!

Even with turning off iCloud Drive and not allowing the files app access to cellular it again downloaded 324mb this morning! I was only off WiFi for 15 min on my commute to work.

Have read others experienced this on previous betas in different versions of iOS but not sure if anyone ever found a solution?

I recently sold my iMac and moved everything from there onto iCloud Drive as my iPad is currently my desktop ”pc” so I wonder if this is where the problem lies? As in the sync never completed properly?

Both the iPhone and iPad are on the beta software.

I tried to restore the iPhone and start with a fresh install but it failed so currently trying to reinstall iOS13.6 but if it still uses such a large volume of data I’m not sure what to do. (I doubt Apple support will be able to assist?)

If anyone has experienced this or has a work around or ideas, I’d love to hear!

Thanks

 

[TiggrToo]

Where you getting this figure from?

Settings::Cellular?

If so then I’ve never understood this figure.

Verizon meanwhile said I’d used 300MB

 

[mvdw84]

Yup, on the same menu - and according to my provider, I’ves close to 4gb for the month - so it’s been happening since I updated to Beta 2 last week when it was released (which also happened to be the start of my new billing period)

 

[I7guy]

It's possible icloud could be at the center of this. May want to sign out and back in to icloud. Also check your back-up settings, if enabled. Delete the last back-up and then initiate the back-up manually. No guarantees, but it should be a fairly harmless process.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Unless you have a limited data plan, I wouldn’t worry about it. It is still early in the beta. This has happened regularly with past betas as well.

 

[mvdw84]

I am unfortunately on a 15gb limit.

I signed in and out of iCloud and did a fresh install of Beta 2 - this helped the “other” usage of iPhone storage and currently only used <10mb of Cellular Data for system services - so I’ll take that as a win!