david and david here out of the box your
iphone comes with a bunch of pernicious
settings turned on that most of all will
drain your iphone's
battery life if you liked our video
seven iphone settings you should turn
off now
you'll like this once we've got a few
new ones to talk about right things have
changed especially since the last video
we realized that some of the settings
even if they're same settings have moved
to different places
let's dive in i'll open the settings app
my iphone scroll down and we're going to
start in
privacy tap privacy at the top of the
screen tap
location services and scroll down
to system services there's a purple
arrow right there what does that mean
bad sign
already it means that an app or service
is currently used in location or has
very recently
used your location so i'm going to tap
on system services
we've got a lot of switches turned on by
default we want to turn off most of them
we sure do
apple pay merchant identification off
cell network search
off is this still going to search for
cell networks and connect to them yes
yes most of these settings like setting
time zone
cell network search networking and
wireless all of these things have to do
with adjusting the way that your
iphone's
antennas work when you go to other
countries
so unless you're going to other
countries turn these things off so the
ones we're actually going to recommend
leaving on
let's turn off that turn off that leave
on emergency calls in sos leave on find
my iphone home kit
turn it off location based alerts
suggestions motion calibration and
distance turn that off networking and
wireless turn that off
this talks about ultra wideband apple
recently released with the iphone 11 and
the iphone 12
a u1 chip and that is gps
at the scale of your living room there
where it's not ours
meaning that if i want to airdrop to
somebody i can point my phone at david's
phone
and then david will be the first person
that appears on that list
if you're in a busy office i can see how
that would be helpful because you might
get airdrop suggestions with a whole
bunch of people
but if you're not turn this off and save
battery life i'll just tap turn off
setting times i'll turn that off share
my location i don't use it
okay system customization off and wi-fi
calling turn that off wi-fi calling
will still work you got to ask yourself
are you
traveling to a different country where
wi-fi calling is
calibrated differently that's the only
reason to leave these things on it has
nothing to do with the actual wi-fi
calling where you live next let's talk
about significant locations go ahead and
tap
on that here you'll see a list of places
you visit often that apple saves
using your location draining battery
life a little bit weird i get a little
weirded out when i see this i don't even
remember going to queensbury new york
but then i looked up on the map and i
was like oh yeah it was there it's kind
of weird that apple remembers and i
don't
yeah so no but nobody remembers if they
go to queensbury new york david
so just tap the switch at the top of the
screen to turn off significant locations
and tap turn off you want to clear this
history list just tap
clear history here on the screen right
next let's tap back in the left-hand
corner of the screen
and scroll down here to product
improvement go ahead and turn all these
off only if they're paying you
if apple's paying you to help improve
their products
leave it on but for me you can improve
their own gosh darn traffic
we are uh not fortunate enough to be
being paid by app
right and uh but we would love to be you
know hey i'll turn these on
improve maps there's no way that my
iphone's location
is gonna do enough to make apple maps as
good as google maps i'm sorry it's just
not gonna work maybe you should turn it
on and help them improve their minds
maybe i'm the reason why their maps
aren't as good
i don't think so at the upper left-hand
corner of the screen let's tap
back and here on the main page of
location services the next thing you
want to do
is look through your list of apps and
look specifically for the word always
this means an app always has
access to your location and it can drain
your battery really fast for example i
turned on draftkings location setting up
for a video
i drove back up i-87 and during that
drive
draftking is using my location 32 times
right that's incredible
they're just always checking to see
where you are not necessary i'm not
entering contests while i'm driving my
car that's good
so i'll tap on draftkings for example
they only need your location while
you're actually using the app and
entering contests i'm gonna switch that
too
while using the app yeah pretty much
everything from always switch it to well
using the app you're gonna save battery
life
yeah i'll tap back one more time one
other example i want to point out is
sef q sef queue always has access to my
location not necessary but you want to
be wary of maybe
apps that aren't you know as well
developed right in your location and you
may not know what stuff cue is
weirdo cue is david's bank yes local
credit union
why would they always need access to
david's location to
show nearby atms i guess always but that
would be well using the app
i have no idea why they always need this
location i think that as david said it
was just a
development team that didn't know what
they were doing so i'm going to tap
never here they don't need my location
let's get into something kind of
controversial here
personalized ads and it's been amazing
the amount of pushback we've gotten
from people who want to see ads
that are tailored to them let's let's
dive in yes i'll tap back upper
left-hand corner of the screen
tap back to privacy scroll down here to
apple
advertising personalized ads if you want
to see information about yourself you
can tap on view add targeting
information
but in my experience there really isn't
a lot of stuff in there if anything but
they are still targeting me
personalized ads people think okay if i
turn this off i'm gonna see all these
really low
quality crappy ads but that's not
necessarily true
because just because they can't tell
that you went to the airbnb
app and now you're playing a game and
you see an advertisement for the same
exact place or amazon the same products
doesn't mean that you're not going to
get relevant ads at all it just means
that they're going to use other
targeting criteria like
if you're on an iphone help website
you're going to see ads about iphone
batteries not about cancun if you wanted
to go to cancun
so a lot of the time i like to just turn
this off because i still see ads but
they're almost more relevant to what i'm
looking at
and then airbnb isn't like trying to
target me because a lot of the times i
go on that website and i just want to go
someplace
but i don't really want to spend the
money also if advertisers have less
information about you that you become
less valuable to them they may actually
target you less
exactly you may see fewer ads so i won't
tell you that long story short
turn off personalized ads and we expect
to get a lot of comments about that
that's fine
calm down why would i want to see crappy
ads this is not what's going to happen
next let's tap back to privacy in the
upper left-hand corner of the screen
one above apple advertising is analytics
and
improvements it's amazing how much data
is constantly being sent from your
iphone to apple and other app developers
and what's funny is that they keep
building in new switches here when they
get caught doing something they
shouldn't like the improved syrian
dictation thing
they were just sending people's
conversations to their servers for
analysis
yeah but now you can opt out of that
yeah so every time you do this you just
remember like
improved siri indication the only way
that's going to happen is if they send
audio files from your phone
to their servers that's going to use
battery life let's all just tap
the switch also turns off data
collection on your apple watch two for
one tip there
yeah i'm just gonna start turning off
these switches
there we go the last thing in privacy
let's tap back in the upper left hand
corner of the screen
scroll all the way up and tap on
tracking this
is the allow apps to request a track
allows apps to ask to track
your activity across other companies
apps and websites a bit of a mouthful
you know who doesn't like this setting
david
facebook facebook does not like this
setting because
whenever you open facebook app for the
first time after you update your iphone
it's going to say hey
facebook would like to track you
everywhere you go and a bunch of other
scary stuff and then you have to opt
into it now
it's not just automatically turned on
for facebook nobody's gonna say yes to
that nobody's gonna say yes to that yeah
facebook would like to see everything
about what you're doing online so that
they can sell you
as a product to their advertisers when
you see ads it is facebook
selling you selling traffic to
advertisers
if you're not getting a cut of that i
would turn this off all right well i'm
gonna go ahead and turn that off
that's it for the privacy section of the
settings app but wait there's more
the next thing we're gonna talk about is
in-app ratings and reviews i'm sure most
people watching this video have
downloaded an app for the first time
open it for the first time
and the first thing they see can you
write us a review how many stars do you
give us and it's like i don't know i
haven't used the app before i know yeah
how am i supposed to do this also
have you ever done it i've done it like
twice i usually say no yeah i say no as
well i think most people do
i'll tap back to privacy in the upper
left-hand corner of the screen back to
settings
one below privacy uc app store tap on
that
and look for in-app ratings and reviews
help developers and other users know
what you think by letting apps ask for
product
feedback right turn that switch right
off you can always go and leave a review
for an app if you feel so inclined but
now it's on your terms you're not going
to see that annoying little pop-up i
like to turn this feature off
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yes next thing to talk about is push
mail i'm gonna tap back to settings
upper left hand corner of the screen
and scroll down here and tap on mail
then tap accounts and then tap fetch
new data right now i have mail set to
push right
one of the biggest battery drainers on
iphone with push on your iphone is
constantly asking is their mail is their
mail as their mail
to the air the mail server but with push
mail off your iphone will choose how
often
to fetch the mail from the server so for
most people
every 15 minutes to check or whenever
they open the mail app
is more than often enough yeah so i'll
turn off the switch next to push at the
top of the screen
and then i'll set every 30 minutes gonna
do a lot of email on my iphone anyway
the next thing i want to talk about is
background app refresh this less apps
download new content in the background
of your iphone so the next time you open
your app it's a bunch of fresh content
in front of you right do you open all of
your apps every single day
i certainly don't do i want all of those
apps that i never open
always downloading content in the
background which is going to drain my
battery and also use cellular data
i don't think so so you might want to
have this on for one or two apps
let's choose yeah i'll tap back to
accounts upper left-hand corner of the
screen
back to mail back to the main page of
the settings app we're going to scroll
up
and tap general and then we're going to
tap background
app refresh first thing to do tap on
background app refresh the top of the
screen
do you want cellular data to be used by
apps to download new content in the
background of your iphone
probably not nope we recommend choosing
wi-fi i'll tap back
and here's a list of all your apps that
can download new content in the
background of your iphone i think by
default it is all of them
yeah it is all of them for instance
notes notes might be a good one because
you want notes to be able to download
the notes
so that when you open the notes app it's
not going to like have to load a list of
100
if you haven't opened it in a while but
a lot of things like
facebook could be downloading all sorts
of stuff in the background instagram
images anything like that you might want
to just turn off
anything that's a messenger type of an
app you might want to leave on
if that's a concern for you yeah so just
go through this list and you know
find what works for you all right you'll
say battery life you'll save cellular
data
the cost of this is maybe having to wait
a second or two when you open the app
for it to download
i turn them off it's gonna totally turn
most of them off
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