Long story short I found out today that the YouTube iOS app continues to use my cellular data over a day after last use. How can this be? I thought that iOS apps can't do this if background refresh is off? I turned off cellular data for this app to put an end to this nonsense. I've seen other complaints online about this. Ugh. Check your settings!
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Good idea. But surprised this could even happen. I thought that apps stop working in the background after 15 minutes unless background app refresh was selected. Not sure if this is a flaw in a badly written app or a flaw in iOS (I'm on 8.4). Anyway lesson learned.