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Uninstalled apps using cellular data in iOS

My wife has a iPhone 14 pro on iOS 17.2.1 and I just reset her cellular data so I can see if they are leaking data. Has this issue been resolved?

Posted on Jan 8, 2024 5:05 PM

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Posted on Mar 29, 2024 5:34 AM

Hi I have the same issue since fall (2023) when I updated to ios17.

I have reset the data usage several times. I even erased the iphone by reseting it to the manufacturer setting. From scratch with no app installed, uninstalled app showed data usage. I reinstalled the few apps that I use. I monitor the data usage everyday and I have unistalled app data usage everyday even if I have not uninstalled apps. I tried the lockdown mode with no success. I disconnected from IClound with no success. I reinstalled the native apps (journal, homekit, etc) with no success. I can't see in the privacy tab any connection other than the legitimate ones. My big questions are: what are those ko sent, where are they going and how to stop that?


Please don't answer that it's uninstalled apps that I removed and I need to reset the data usage because it's not. I wiped the Iphone and reseted the data usage almost everyday.

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Mar 29, 2024 5:34 AM in response to Odawg132

Hi I have the same issue since fall (2023) when I updated to ios17.

I have reset the data usage several times. I even erased the iphone by reseting it to the manufacturer setting. From scratch with no app installed, uninstalled app showed data usage. I reinstalled the few apps that I use. I monitor the data usage everyday and I have unistalled app data usage everyday even if I have not uninstalled apps. I tried the lockdown mode with no success. I disconnected from IClound with no success. I reinstalled the native apps (journal, homekit, etc) with no success. I can't see in the privacy tab any connection other than the legitimate ones. My big questions are: what are those ko sent, where are they going and how to stop that?


Please don't answer that it's uninstalled apps that I removed and I need to reset the data usage because it's not. I wiped the Iphone and reseted the data usage almost everyday.

Jan 8, 2024 5:08 PM in response to kevinwing70

This is not a data leak issue. Uninstalled Apps is a category to track the data usage of apps that you have delted from your iPhone that have used cellular data. For example, if I have ToDoist, it syncs something to iCloud over cellular data, then I uninstall it, it becomes part of the Uninstalled Apps category of my cellular data usage metric.

May 13, 2024 4:00 PM in response to kevinwing70

Update. About a month ago I contacted Apple service and they ran some diagnostic tests. Luckily during these tests, the uninstalled apps data raised. Then, a week later, the gentleman called me back the issue that was transferred to the engineers. He did mention that it was not a security issue but couldn’t tell more. I hope the 17.5 new release will take care of that.

Uninstalled apps using cellular data in iOS

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