Does Text Messages Use Data?
Free Texting Apps It Doesn't Matter If You Use Apple's iMessage, Google Voice or a Variety of Third-Party Apps Like Textfree, textPlus or Whatsapp, They All...
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It doesn't matter if you use Apple's iMessage, Google Voice or a variety of third-party apps like TextFree, textPlus or WhatsApp, they all use your cellular data. If you're just sending text-based messages, then there's really no problem. Those are so tiny they don't even budge the needle.Do regular text messages use data?
Messages are considered texts and don't count toward your data usage. Your data usage is also free when you turn on chat features. Learn how to turn on chat features (RCS). Tip: You can send texts over Wi-Fi even if you don't have cell service.How much data does a text message use?
SMS text messages use 7-bit characters and have a maximum length of 160 characters, making the maximum data size of each SMS 1120 bits, or 140 bytes. If an average mp3 song from iTunes is 4 MB, a text message is 0.0001335 MB.
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