Sky Mobile Piggybank Hack so PiggyBank NEVER Expires

Posted 30th May 2022

I just spoke to someone from Sky Mobile and he gave me a good tip for keeping your entire piggybank.

Saved data expires after 3 years but to avoid this, "Roll Back" your entire PiggyBank onto your sim card in one go. Whatever you don't use will then go back into your PiggyBank the following month and will reset the 3 year expiration time. I guess it's similar to gift cards and resetting the expiry with a balance check etc.

Apologies if already posted or widely known but it was news to me!

Only slight issue is there's a maximum rollback of 5GB in one transaction but there's nothing to stop you doing endless 5GB transactions. It may just take a few minutes if your bank is in the 100s of GB!

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1st Jun
seatie31/05/2022 16:09
Do they actually clear your whole piggy bank after 3 years? I just assumed …Do they actually clear your whole piggy bank after 3 years? I just assumed the 3 years was a rolling thing ie they would just remove data added to the piggy bank in the month 3 years prior to the current one. And keep doing that each month after on a rolling basis.

That's right, it would be done on a rolling basis
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31st May
I thought this
Conkers81631/05/2022 09:09
I've got about 240gb in my piggybank. It would take me a bit more than a …I've got about 240gb in my piggybank. It would take me a bit more than a 'few minutes' to transfer it over to one of the accounts!

I thought this too in transferring my 95gb but genuinely took about 3 minutes. So under 10 minutes for 240gb by that logic! Other tip is leave a few seconds between each transfer or it will show an error, just a slight lag as it processes it I assume

fabsaver31/05/2022 00:05
Where can you see when it expires?

I'm not too sure, may require contacting them. Can take control of it with a full transfer and then a reminder to do it again before 3 years expires. Assuming their terms don't change in that time of course (edited)
22nd Jul
Is this correct? I'm sure I read somewhere that any piggybank data withdrawn expires at the end of the bill period and doesn't roll back in again, only unused 'fresh data' would roll into the piggybank, but not stuff that has already been in there and came out from the piggybank?
I may be wrong (and hope I am) as can't seem to see that on Sky website now but was sure I'd read that somewhere at some point.
11th Aug
My withdrawn data returns to the Piggybank
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10th Aug
Can't be 100% sure but I was given this tip by a seemingly clued up member of their Mobile support team so it's straight from the horse's mouth!
30th May
Good tip
30th May
Brilliant tip.
31st May
Where can you see when it expires?
31st May
fabsaver31/05/2022 00:05
Where can you see when it expires?

Yes, this would be useful to know
31st May
I've got about 240gb in my piggybank. It would take me a bit more than a 'few minutes' to transfer it over to one of the accounts!
31st May
Do they actually clear your whole piggy bank after 3 years? I just assumed the 3 years was a rolling thing ie they would just remove data added to the piggy bank in the month 3 years prior to the current one. And keep doing that each month after on a rolling basis.
3 h, 52 m ago
anybody knows if this piggyback "hack" is still valid?

a light data user on mobile so sky mobile with their piggybank feature is the best fit for me currently, and have been with them for a few years, but is now out of contract but have about 28Gbs saved up.

thinking about renewing for 12 months and were offered 50% extra data or 20% money off for recontract, but want to know is this "hack" is still working, and how many times can you "refresh" your piggy bank this way?
1 m ago
It seems to be. I've been rolling 5GB a month and the unused data is added back to my piggybank each month. I assume the 3 years starts again from the date it is added back, but still can't see the expiry dates to know for sure.