So we're new to this "smartphone" thing. On our previous phones I had data completely blocked from our phones. But I feel like now he would be really upset if I completely blocked data. So the first question is will blocking the data through Verizon also block the wifi? I don't want to block his wifi because he is only using it at home (that's the only time he has access to wifi). He uses wifi for school stuff on his phone sometimes when I need to use the laptop. Don't want to have two laptops because it's too hard to monitor all this crap.

Basically he isn't supposed to be using data anyway because we don't have unlimited data. But when I check the data usage on Verizon it says all this stuff about "DATA SHARE TALK & TEXT" I don't know what that means. That's all it ever says and it makes me uneasy not knowing what the heck it is. When I check his phone there isn't really much of anything on there so I don't know what all this data is about. He knows I check his phone so I'm sure he'd erase anything he didn't want me to see. So I'd prefer no data on the stupid thing.

By the way, for whatever reason usage controls is not an option on this phone. I checked.

Basicly .. data share talk and text means all phones on that plan share the text, talk and data limits.

Data is the amount of kilobyts of info transfered from the internet to the smart phones. If you have no plan for data.. you get charged for each kilobyt of data transfer. There is 1000 kilobyts in a megabyte, and 1000 megabytes in a gigabyte.

BUT .. if you are on WIFI then there is no data charge. You only get charged for data when you use the net with the phone connection.

MNG

I simply blocked data completely on his phone. I told him I was looking over the data thing (data is still very new to us). I said it was claiming he used a bunch of data throughout the day and idk what that's from. He said he didn't either. So I asked if it was okay if I blocked data completely on his phone since he's only supposed to use wifi because I refuse to pay for more than the minimum amount of data plan. We only pay for 1 GB of data to share between us.

He said he thinks it's because his stuff is always updating. I don't know what all uses data so I'm not in a position to disagree really.

I told him is it okay if I block data so we don't get charged for overages since it's $15 a GB. And he seemed on board with that. Not disappointed or anything. I said if it messes anything up on his phone to let me know. And updates can happen through wifi when he's home. He seemed fine with that so all is well.

He's probably right about the app updates using the data. They update randomly if the Auto Update box was checked. Blocking the data should solve your problem.