Gift your data
Data Gifting is the easy way to move spare data around all your family’s devices with you in the driving seat.
If you purchased a plan after 17 August 2022, Data Gifting is only available on our Essentials, All Rounder and Full Works plans.
How to gift data
Data Gifting lets you move data around your family’s phones and plans when someone’s low. You can do this by logging in to EE. The plans must all be in the same account. Just choose the person who needs more data, then choose the person you’re gifting data from and that’s it.
As soon as you’ve gifted data, it’s ready to use. Once complete, we’ll send a text to the person receiving the data and the person whose data has been moved.
Data gifts aren't carried over month-to-month. Your plans will reset to their original data allowances at the start of each month.
How it works
- open the EE app
- scroll down the page and tap on Gift Data
- choose who will gift data
- choose who will receive data
- choose the amount of data
- send the data gift
Need to know
You can also gift your data on the EE website:
- log into EE online
- choose who will gift the data
- choose who will receive the data
- choose the amount of data
- send the data gift
Who can gift and receive data
Only the person who runs the account can gift the data, but they can gift it from any plan within the account. So, if your teenager has been heavy on the downloads and your partner still has at least 500MB left on their account, you can gift a bit more data to your teenager from your partner’s account.
If everyone has run out of data you can purchase a data add-on in EE online or in the app.
Need to know
You can change who runs your account by logging into EE.
Can a data gift be used abroad?
Data that has been gifted works in the same way as your monthly data allowance.
So if your plan lets you use data abroad, you can use any data you’ve gifted abroad.
If your plan only lets you use data in the UK, any data you’ve gifted can only be used in the UK.
How soon can I use data that’s been gifted?
Straight away! As soon you’ve gifted your data, it’s ready to use.
Once it’s done, we’ll send a text to the person receiving the data – and the person whose data’s been moved.