{"id":6536,"date":"2026-10-08T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=6536"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:09:11","slug":"what-exactly-does-the-mobile-protection-metered-network-scanning-setting-do","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/what-exactly-does-the-mobile-protection-metered-network-scanning-setting-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What exactly does the Mobile Protection Metered network scanning setting do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>What exactly does the Mobile Protection Metered network scanning setting do? Does it somehow limit scanning when it&#39;s off?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>The metered network scanning setting turns on the Metered Network Scan to allow the Elements Mobile Protection app to scan your device even when connected to a metered network. If the option is turned off scanning can only be performed on a non-metered networks = WiFi or tethered networks, so user will not use data from its paid internet data plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: A metered network connection has a limit on how much data can be used. Exceeding this limit may incur extra costs.<br \/><strong>Note<\/strong>: This is for Android only.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly does Metered scan setting do? Does it somehow limit scanning when it&#8217;s off?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-6536","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005084","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-08 08:09:11","import_hash":"cec8f4af8c7528d6e6e497da565b9039e37187bb","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/6536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}