How to Restrict Data Usage for Specific Apps On Android

If your android apps are eating up your internet bandwidth then stop them doing that with our guide that we are going to discuss right here. For android we had discussed lots of tweaks and tricks till now and here we come with one of the new one to restrict internet usage to specific apps. As in iPhone there is built in feature by which you can disallow any app to stop the internet usage but in android there is no such option, but don’t worry we have a way by which you can do this in your android too. The process is little bit lengthy but will works perfectly for you. So have a look on complete guide discussed below to proceed.

The method depends on app that will let you to stop the internet usage to a specific app that you think eating up your internet bandwidth or just wasting your internet data. And for running that you must have root access that you can gain by following the complete guide. So follow some simple steps discussed below to proceed.

Steps To Restrict Internet Usage To Specific Apps In Android:

1. First of all you need to root your android device as the app we going to discuss right below works on rooted android. So first Root Your Android Device.
2. After rooting your device now you have superuser access, so proceed with downloading app that is DroidWall – Android Firewall.
3. Now install the app and launch in your device and you will see lots of option to allow on both your mobile data and wifi.
4. Now on first option untick on Any Application and with this you can select the apps that you only want to allow internet in your android, You can also restrict this data usage for wifi too.
5. You just need to tick on those apps that you want to allow in your android to access internet. This should be done carefully as you must not disallow internet access to your daily use apps as they will not work if you did so.
6. Thats it you are done, now that apps will no longer have access to internet in your android and this will be going to save your android data usage and bandwidth too.

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So above discussion is all about How to Turn Off Cellular Data for Specific Apps on Android. With this method you can easily restrict data usage to some of specific apps and this will leads to boost in internet bandwidths to other apps and also less data usage will be there and then more battery backup will be there. Hope you like this cool post, do share with others too. Leave a comment below if you have any related queries with this.