Using 20GB a month for two phones and STILL getting overages.

My gf and I have an iPhone 6 and the 5C. We don't have wifi at home, but we do at work and school. We are hardly ever home for anything but sleeping and the occasional day off spent doing nothing. But we're going through 20GB of data and still going over the limit a few days before the cycle ends. I called to find out why it's doing this. We were using 4 GB a month with verizon, and never used all of it. The only thing they could recommend was to turn off data for apps, turn off push notifications, etc. things that we've already done because they're obvious. They aren't trying to address the problem at all. So what I'm wondering is, is this a normal amount of data usage with att? Or no?

It's not AT&T, it's your phones.- Start doing a daily data check by calling *3282#- verify that your wifi is turned on and connecting when within a network- check your wifi connection before watching any videos or facetime or sending pics or downloading anything- see which apps are using the most data

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