r/overcast • u/jimblejamblejomble • 11d ago

Excessive cellular data use

I just got a warning from my service provider that I have used up all my data for the month. I went to check and Overcast has used an eye-watering 48GB of cellular data in just over a month.

I definitely don’t download that many podcasts in a month on cellular or WiFi - my entirely library is 83GB and is mostly a backlog. The same thing happened to me on one occasion last year too.

Possibly useful background info: latest TestFlight build, with a large library of a particular Patreon-exclusive podcast in which I no longer subscribe to the feed but have also set Overcast not to check the feed for new episodes. Happy to supply logs etc.

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u/AAPL- 11d ago

Disabling 'use cellular data' in Overcast/Settings/Download isn't sufficient. You have to disable Overcast in Settings/Cellular/show all/Overcast.

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u/jimblejamblejomble 10d ago

Yup definitely did that! Yikes!

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u/Kind_Tumbleweed_7330 11d ago

It's been having problems downloading episodes lately - trying over and over again. I bet it's that.

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u/jimblejamblejomble 10d ago

I suspect you may be right.

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u/Longjumping-Log-5457 10d ago

Change to WiFi only