welcome back everybody yes we're on the
Roku again so welcome back to all my
Roku followers welcome back to my
regular followers and we're going to be
covering all the settings you need to
delete or turn off on your Roku device
and this will work on all Roku devices
to make it work better to stop being
monitored to swap your data being used
on other apps or even sold externally
from Roku we're going to turn all that
off we're going to go through every
setting a couple of hidden settings and
after that your Roku device will be
working better than ever remember if
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get right into it Roku we're going to
get to our settings
we're going to go through them now so
first things first get your remote out
if you want to follow along you can and
go to your settings tab
once in here we're going to start we're
not going to start at the top of the
list we're going to go to the most
important first we're going to go to
where it says privacy click on privacy
and what you want to do is where it says
advertising personalize ads delete that
one turn it off unclick it whichever you
want to call it and this will stop them
obviously with personalized ads
you will see ads tailored to you this
setting means they get your information
they see what you're doing and then they
use that data to give you ads to promote
to you you may like that but that
information is hasn't been stored these
settings are also being shared with the
other applications on your device
so they then also can give you
personalized ads from that data and that
setting we don't know what they're doing
with that information afterwards you
could have a good read through their
privacy policy but I'm pretty sure in
there they can share that data with
third parties and we don't want other
people having your information
sound fair so we're going to turn that
one off next up voice
um Channel microphone access personally
I put onto that never allow
um I don't want things having microphone
access you may want to I personally
don't like using
the mics on these
speech recognition again you may like it
but for them to do speech recognition
they will need to record you they will
store your recordings and then they will
learn from your recordings and then they
will use that so they understand you
better which is great if you want to use
it but what are they doing with that
data and that recorded information of
you and your text
no thank you turn that one off
um privacy policy obviously you can have
a good read through that one if you want
to and then you can understand a lot
more about what we're talking about here
okay those were the most important ones
now we're going to start at the top and
go through all the rest
we have Network so in here a good one
you can have a look at is bandwidth
saver
s on the item bound with say the auth
because I have no data caps here or
anything like that
so
um if you have a data cap or you're
charged by how much data you use on your
internet connection this one's good to
have on because after so many hours
streaming four hours or more it will ask
you if you want to continue the stream
personally I turn it off I have no cap
on mine unlimited and I don't want it
annoying me and turning off during
something I'm watching especially if I'm
not there in time to quickly click that
button and say continue watching
um you can obviously check your
connection here and set up your
connection
remotes and devices standard stuff just
turn your remotes on and off
themes quite a good one in theme you can
obviously select your theme pack so you
don't have just a really normal boring
Roku purple
you can select any of these get them
downloaded but the main one I like to
look at is screen savers screen savers
are really annoying because they
suddenly come on use up your system
resources then sometimes you get a delay
to get off the screen saver before you
can go and do something
so if you go to screen saver start time
you can disable the screen saver there
again that's a personal preference for
mine you may want to have yours come on
after half an hour if you like having a
screensaver on there but again if you do
you can obviously look at
a simpler screen saver like a clock or
something like that which doesn't take
too long to come onto the screen
okay
um sounds not much you can do in there
again you can select your theme pack and
then you can go and have it looking much
nicer
display type
again automatic's good but sometimes
automatic glitches out when you load up
different films on different
applications and can swap and change
accordingly which also can then
obviously freeze up your device
personally I like to pick the correct
resolution to what device I'm using I'm
only currently on a 1080p monitor so
I've selected that 1080p
accessibility accessibility is good if
you need it so for me personally I turn
captions off so they're not coming up
and on on certain apps or devices I turn
it off but obviously if you need them
keep them on obviously you have your
language screen reader again I have that
off screen reader is something they can
put up on the screen to help you uh text
display what the issues are or not the
issues what the applications are and
what you're clicking over if for
instance you need it bigger and Bolder
that sort of stuff
volume if you need more volume turn it
up medium is perfectly fine for me
okay next
audio menu volume again I like to have
menu volume up I hate clicking and
beeping every time you're moving around
a menu so I turn that one off
apart from that there's not much more
you can do in here I'd leave the audio
and stuff on auto and left you having
any audio issues
home screen you can select which you
like on your home screen to come up
first I'm quite happy with live uh
featured free is also quite good if you
want it but live TV I have it on have it
on show but you can turn off which ones
you don't want
you know there's quite a few down here
if you want to turn them on or off
again that's just more of a preference
on anything
payment method payment method is a good
one
um I don't add mine because if you're
ever going to use an application on here
you don't really want to sign up via
Roku pay for instance if you were going
to sign up to say Disney Plus or Netflix
if you do it all via Roku pay you can
get a little bit confusing I personally
would recommend signing up externally so
via the Netflix website or via the
Disney plus website and then log into
your Netflix and things like that on
your Roku device then it makes it easy
to use it on all other devices at the
same time
Apple AirPlay and home kit we're going
to look at on a later video so do make
sure you've hit that subscribe button
legal notices not a lot in there just
gonna have a little read if you want to
you can't do too much in there apart
from read away
privacy we've done
help help we ignore system okay and
system there's a couple of little things
you can do
obviously you can have a look at the
main one is making sure your device is
up to date as you'll see mine was last
updated uh that was yesterday when I
made this video and last check today
power auto power savings if you want it
to turn off after 20 minutes of
interaction
um I leave that on on my system because
this is just when I do recordings on but
again if this is your everyday using TV
system quite easily turn that one off
guest mode guest Mode's very good if you
have visitors you can set up a little
guest account for them and in that way
they can use it and all their own apps
and things like that without having to
use your stuff and your logins Advanced
system settings
you can do your factory reset here you
can do your network connection reset if
you have any issues with the internet
and obviously we've got Advanced display
settings if you want to change your
refresh rate if you want the refresh
rate to change with the application if
you're suddenly watching something 30
Hertz and you need it in 60 hertz or the
app it's just the way they do it I leave
it off because it does glitch out
sometimes can flicker quite a good one
to have off
okay last one is one last hidden setting
to get rid of this big advert here which
is above my head we don't like that
advert so to get rid of that advert
you're going to push on your remote home
button five times
up right down left up
okay we get to this secret menu so it's
a home button five times then it is up
right down left up
and you're going to go to cycle
scrollable ads and you're going to
change this to always disabled
and you're going to go to cycle home
screen add Banner server and you're
going to change this one to demo free
brilliant push your home button
and all of those settings will be
updated now for you the advert should
disappear if it doesn't just reboot your
system and it should all be refreshed
ready to go perfect hopefully that was
really useful for you
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