One of the very important novelties that iOS 7 it implements in terms of managing data connections is the possibility to view how much data traffic the applications in iDevices have made, but also the system services. Apple moved the menu Cellular Data right on the first page of the Settings application, and inside it included a counter that tells us how much data traffic iOS applications or system services have consumed. If you look at the images of this article you will quickly realize that any of the applications in our terminals is represented there if we used it without being connected to a Wi-Fi network and the interesting part is that we can choose to disable data connections for them.
Practically inside the Cellular menu you will have a list of all the applications available in your terminals, all of them having permission to use a cellular data network to connect to the Internet, but when you press the button to the right of them you will prohibit them the access. At that moment, all those applications will no longer be able to connect to the Internet unless you access a WiFi network, thus ensuring that you will not make additional data traffic, possibly without knowing that it is being made.
Moving on to the information about the services, I tell you that for the first time we can see how much data traffic Siri makes during use, how much data traffic is carried out through the service iMessage, by receiving notifications, through the document synchronization system, through HomeScreen, or even Game Center. Until the release of iOS 7, it was impossible to find out similar information correctly, and no application from App Store cannot now count exactly the same things as accurately as an internal counter of iOS 7.
To be honest, the only motivation for using some data metering applications is either the possibility to be warned when you exceed a certain traffic limit, or the option to see how much traffic you have consumed every day, because for the rest there is iOS 7. This system is extremely important and can help users avoid the astronomical bills generated by data traffic made without their knowledge, it remains to be seen if it will be improved in the future.
