How Much Data Does Disney + Consume on mobile

Disney + has become one of the largest streaming platforms in Spain and worldwide, compatible with countless devices and, among them, mobile phones and tablets. If we want to see movies or chapters when we travel or when we are away from home, it is good to know how much Disney + consumes on mobile.

Good because you want to put cartoons on your child if you are away from home or simply because your WiFi does not work well when you cannot go out, it is interesting to know how much Disney + consumes on mobile when we are using the data rate and we do not have a WiFi connection with the that we can see it without worrying about the bill. How much does it consume, how is the data saving mode or how to avoid this consumption …

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How much data do you consume

According to a study reviews.org , we can know exactly how much data Disney + uses when we use it on our mobile phone without being connected to WiFi. Although we can download the chapters to see them offline and offline, you may be interested to know how much data Disney + consumes if you want to pull your fee to see a series, a movie or a documentary. As they explain from the aforementioned medium, Disney + has not detailed information on the use of application data on mobile phones or tablets, but their study shows an approximate consumption.

To verify this, they use the film The Lady and the Tramp and an episode from the Mandalorian series on an iPhone 11. The conclusions of the data consumption are:

  • For 30 minutes of HD content we spend 1.1 GB
  • For every hour of HD content, we spend 2.2 GB
  • If you watch 4K or HDR content, you will spend 2.55 GB for 30 minutes
  • With 4K HDR content for a movie, 5.1GB per hour

Or what is the same: Watching a chapter of The Mandalorian of about 40 minutes in HD quality would consume around 1.5 GB of rate data and see the film The Lady and the Tramp, with a duration of 104 minutes, consumes about 3.8 GB.

You may be wondering if it is a lot compared to other streaming platforms. It is within normal if we compare with Net-flix and it is even lower: on Net-flix, according to the same source, we would spend about 7 GB for every hour of playback in 4K quality and around 3 GB for every hour in HD quality.

Save data

You can activate a data saving function from the mobile phone or tablet application. This way you can reduce consumption while watching a chapter or a movie. To do this, you will have to install the application on your mobile and follow some very simple steps to activate or deactivate the saving mode:

  • Open Disney + on your mobile phone
  • Log in with your username and password if you haven’t already
  • Click on your profile button in the lower right corner
  • Choose the “Application Settings” option
  • Go to the first section: Use of mobile data
  • Choose the Save data option

According to the aforementioned study, you would have a consumption of 1 GB of mobile data for each episode of about 40 minutes, which would be a slight saving in data.

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Using data at Disney + is an option but not required if you plan ahead. That is, you can view the content offline by downloading it previously, you will not need to be using your mobile data rate to watch series or movies and thus you will save on your rate. To do so, you will only have to previously download, connected to a WiFi network, all the content you want to see. Once you have left home you will already have it downloaded to your mobile phone to see it offline without having to have an internet connection. For example, on an airplane if there is no WiFi or on a train if you do not want to spend your fare, in restaurants with your children, etc.

Disney + allows you to download titles for offline viewing, storing them in the internal memory of your mobile phone or tablet and that will not use data when playing it. It is the best option if you are concerned about how much Disney + consumes. In addition, if you are also concerned about the space on your mobile phone, you can choose the quality of the download when it is done on your mobile. There are three types: High, Medium, and Standard.

  • High: The slowest download of all and requires maximum storage space. With about 12 GB free on your mobile phone, you could download around 4 hours of Disney content.
  • Medium: Faster than the previous one, balanced and requires less storage space. With the same gigabytes, you would be able to download around 18 hours of Disney content on your mobile phone or tablet.
  • Standard: The fastest and the default activated, requires the least possible space of all. With 12 GB free on your mobile, get about 28 hours of downloading Disney + series and movies.

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To access the download quality or the different settings on it you will have to follow practically the same steps as for the Savings Mode:

  • Open Disney + on your mobile phone
  • Log in if you have not already done so, with your email and password
  • Go to your profile among all available
  • Go to the lower right corner and click on your avatar
  • Tap on the ‘Application Settings’ option
  • Click on ‘Download quality’
  • Choose the one that suits you best

Disney + will detect how much free space you have on your mobile phone or tablet and will show you approximately how many available hours you can download according to each of the quality plans offered by the application, so you can get an idea.

You can also choose the download location in case your mobile has a microSD card. You can choose internal storage or the card. And you can check the option “Download only with WiFi” to avoid spending your data voluntarily.

How to download

Once you have configured the downloads, downloading content to save data is very simple and it will only take a few minutes if you are connected to WiFI.

  • Go to the Disney + app and access the catalog
  • Choose the series or movie you want or do a search
  • Open the file of the series or movie
  • Find the chapter you want and click on the download icon

You can also download full seasons by following the same steps above and clicking on the download icon next to ‘season’. All available chapters will start downloading.

Once you have them downloaded, you can see them by clicking on the third icon in the bottom bar of the application, the download icon . From here you will see everything that is available on your mobile phone or tablet and you can see, delete, etc.

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How much do episodes and movies take up?

Although, as we say, your mobile phone will tell you the approximate space, in hours, that you have on your mobile to download chapters and movies, we summarize:

In standard quality , the one that is activated by default, would occupy:

  • A movie of about two and a quarter hours occupies 0.94 GB
  • A 40-minute episode takes up about 273 MB on your mobile
  • A chapter of a children’s series of drawings, about 20 minutes long, occupies 169 MB
  • A Disney short, about seven or eight minutes long, takes up 48 MB

In average quality, the chapters and films would occupy:

  • The film occupies a total of 1.5 GB in your internal memory
  • The chapter of any series, 40 minutes, occupies about 474 MB
  • Child episodes of about 20 minutes would weigh 266 MB
  • A short or episode of about 7 minutes takes up only 75 MB

In high quality, the space would increase, as is logical:

  • Two-and-a-quarter hour movie takes up 4.5GB on your mobile phone
  • The chapter of 40 minutes would happen to have 1.3 GB in total
  • The 20 minutes of children’s series occupy a total of 817 MB
  • The short of only 7 minutes occupies about 225 MB on our mobile