In detail
50 GB is a lot of data for a phone: about 16 hours of HD video, 70 hours of SD video, 70 hours of TikTok or Instagram, or over 300 hours of music per month. Only people who stream video for hours on mobile data, use their phone as a hotspot for a laptop or skip home internet entirely regularly use more.
What uses data is almost always video. In HD, 50 GB lasts about 16.7 hours; in SD about 71.4 hours; in 4K only about 7.1 hours. Everything else is light by comparison: 50 GB is about 333 hours of music streaming, and messaging, email and maps use only a few hundred megabytes a month.
As a hotspot for remote work, 50 GB covers roughly 50 hours of video calls a month — tight for full-time work, fine for a few calls a week plus email and documents.
Spread over a month, 50 GB is about 1.7 GB per day; over two weeks it is about 3.6 GB per day. The calculator above shows how many days 50 GB lasts with your own mix of activities, and whether it's enough for a week, two weeks or a whole month.
To make 50 GB last longer, set video apps to data saver on mobile networks, download shows and playlists over Wi-Fi, turn off autoplay on social media and check which apps use background data in your phone's settings.