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How to Optimize mobile data usage when using Microsoft Teams

ByCorporate Guider Home, Teams

In the Teams mobile app, you can change a setting to limit how much data is used on your mobile devices during video calls or meetings, which will reduce the amount of data that is used on your mobile device.

Although the number of participants, bandwidth conditions, and other factors will have a significant impact on the quality of the viewing experience, teams will still ensure a quality viewing experience.

This setting can be changed by following the steps below:

  1. Select the Settings option from the drop-down menu next to your profile picture.
  2. Then select Storage and Data, and then choose Reduce data usage from the drop-down menu.              
  3. The options that you can choose from are: Never, Always, On cellular networks, or On cellular networks at all times.

The On cellular networks option allows you to select areas where you will be using cellular data (for situations when you will only be using cellular data) or Always (when you will be using both cellular and Wi-Fi data simultaneously). You can use whatever option you would like to reduce your data usage for video calls and meetings.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The software is quite conservative when it comes to bandwidth utilization and can achieve HD video quality in less than 1.2Mbps, according to Microsoft. During group video calling, it uses approximately 225MB of data per hour, which is a pretty impressive amount of data. As an example, Teams will consume about 450MB of data each hour if it is used to conduct HD group video calls using 540p videos on a 1080p screen.
In order to reduce the high CPU/RAM usage on Teams, there are some remedies that you can apply. Many users have found the following measures to be beneficial:
  1. Hardware acceleration of GPUs should be disabled.
  2. The read receipts should be disabled.
  3. The add-ins for the teams in Outlook need to be disabled.
  4. It is a good idea to clear the Teams cache.
  5. The following steps need to be taken in order to update Microsoft Teams (Optional)
There is a possibility that group video calls may require more than 4Mbps of bandwidth. A standard quality video call on Microsoft Teams will require about 1.2 Mbps, a 1080p call will require about 1.5 Mbps, and a 360p call will require around 500 kbps. It is estimated that group video requires a bandwidth of 1 Mbps, while HD video requires a bandwidth of 2 Mbps. There is a limit of 130 kbps for audio and screen sharing.
Over the course of a 50 minute video call conducted using MS Teams on 4G yesterday, 9 Gb of data was consumed.
This setting can be changed by following the steps below:
  1. By tapping your profile picture, you will be able to choose Settings from the list of options.
  2. By selecting Data and storage, you will be able to reduce your data usage.
  3. Depending on your preference, you have the option of selecting either Never, On cellular networks, or Always.
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