Notion Mobile Uses Excessive Background Data When Disabled
A user reports Notion's mobile app consuming 0.5-1GB of data daily even with background data disabled and the app unopened for days. This points to a possible sync bug that overrides the user's explicit setting rather than intentional data misuse.
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