Apple's built-in voice-recognition app Siri, is causing users of the iPhone 4S to use nearly double as much of their monthly data allowance as they did with the previous Apple phone, a new research has revealed.
Arieso, a British mobile network optimising service, revealed that iPhone 4S users are using nearly double the amount of data than they were when operating an iPhone 4 and on their iPads, and one of the main causes is Siri.
"Voice is the ultimate human interface. As you lower the barriers consumers will use their smartphones' functions even more often," Michael Flanagan, Arieso's chief technology officer told Bloomberg.
Siri was a major new feature of the latest iPhone model which came out last October.
The voice-controlled software, which requires an Internet connection, allows users to ask it for weather updates, write text messages and search the web.
According to the Telegraph, a different study by technology site, Ars Technica, found Siri's data usage to be more efficient, depending on the type of query and the amount used.
The additional use of data is putting extra strain on the mobile operators, many of which have already limited the amount of data offered in customers' monthly plans and in the case of Vodafone, users are now charged based on their data consumption rate.
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