How can I minimize the consumption of data usage on my phone?

Here are some of the ways you can save data consumption in your mobile phone:

1. Turn off mobile data when you don't need it. Many applications continue to eat up data even when they are in the background. To prevent them from eating data, you need to turn off mobile data service.

2. Close applications after using them. When you use an application and if you exit it without closing it. It keeps running for some time afterwards. If you close it after you no longer need it, you can save a lot of data.

3. Restrict App background data: If you use a android phone, you can use this feature to restrict data usage of apps when they are in background. Go to Settings >> Data Usage and there you will see the stats for which apps are consuming how much of data. Tap on an app and there you can set it to not use any data when it is in background.

There are many other tricks you can use to save data and some of those are mentioned in this article: https://fossbytes.com/8-best-ways-reduce-data-usage-android/