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Find Device uses a lot of data on my xiaomi
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What do you mean by "at once?" 70 mb per hour? Per day?
Do you have any trackers on your keys or in bags? Do you have other Android devices that are on the Find Device network? How about your neighbors? Find My Device systems are based on aggregation, so you're also helping to track everyone else's devices as well. If you turn this feature off, you won't be able to find your devices either.
70mb once a day, often if I leave the house and turn data on it will use that much within a couple minutes so I usually leave my data off. If i look at WLAN data usage it also shows 70mb per day on most days
I dont have any trackers or other devices
I assume google and xiaomis networks are separate right? I dont know if theres that many xiaomi devices around. Also it would probably be nonstop rather than 70mb one time per day
Thanks for the reply!
As far as I can tell, Xiaomi uses Google's Find network.