Its icon is that of a train on the tracks, coming right at you.

Once Tripmode is installed and opened, it will show up as a menu bar utility (and that’s it). RELATED : How To Change the Login Password on Your Mac How To Use Tripmode To install Tripmode, you need to download the installation file from the website and go through the installation wizard. The developer states that it doesn’t collect any data. The app is not available in the Mac App Store because it uses Kernel Extension to automatically disable internet access for some specific apps. After which, the app is limited to 15 minutes of use a day. The app is available for $7.99 from the developer’s website. Tripmode is a little menu bar utility that identifies when you’re using a tethered connection, and automatically turns off internet access to the usual culprits – iCloud Drive, Dropbox, App Store and more. If you’re smart about it, you’re going to want a solution that, in true Apple fashion, just works. Only to find that App Store was running, downloading OS updates. Sure, you can do that dance where you spend 5 minutes checking and rechecking that every possible culprit is turned off.

And all of that is eating up data – your precious, expensive cellular data. An app might be syncing its own app data. Dropbox might be running, syncing your files, so might iCloud Drive. When you’re tethering your iPhone to your Mac, trying to get some work done, it’s very easy to lose sight of what’s actually going in your Mac, silently, in the background.

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