Hey friends - Andrew here, hope you're all! I've been tinkering with my iPhone settings
and home screen for years now and I've come up with the first 12 things you must do to set up
your iPhone so these changes will help you use your iPhone more efficiently protect its battery
life and basically just get the most out of your iPhone every day and I've got a fresh phone with
me here with a completely blank slate so you can follow along and let's get stuck right into it
all right so the very first thing you want to do is to check that you're on the latest software
version and then turn on automatic updates so to do this go into the settings app and then scroll
down to General and then click software update so from here just make sure that you are on the
latest software and if you're not make sure that you update it especially if you bought
your iPhone secondhand from someone for example then turn on automatic updates make sure both
of these are toggled on here and this is going to be really important to get your iPhone up to date
with the latest bug and sec security fixes that Apple pushes out automatically without thinking
about it and it just helps secure your iPhone so now that your iPhone is all up toate let's start
building out the home screen so the very first thing we'll start with is setting up widgets and
smart stacks these are super useful in getting the most out of your iPhone every day so let's bring
in a couple of random uh widgets and click the plus icon here so I'm just going to bring in some
random widgets here let's add the battery widget here so I've just added these two widgets here
randomly and you might be asking well what are the best widgets to add in and to use every day
and that's where smart Stacks come in so if I tap and hold this and stack it into here now this is
technically a smart stack and then from here you want to click on the widget and you can see that
there is a couple options here now turn on smart rotate and this will basically supercharge the
widget and basically what it does is it detects your app usage patterns over time and using these
patterns it will show you the app you uh use most at certain times of the day so if you check the
weather every morning for example well then the weather widget will automatically appear every
morning right here it's really awesome and also one more thing is turning on widget suggestions if
you want your iPhone to shuffle to new widgets you might not use but is worth trying so you can test
out new widgets throughout the day so this is how I like to set up the home screen I have the smart
stack up the top and then two smaller widgets down here underneath for easy access to things that are
important to me like Google Calendar or the Apple Reminders app for example so for the rest of the
home screen I like using this space as well so I recommend placing daily apps underneath the widget
so for me it's things like you know the reminders app and also Google Maps and my mail apps so to
do this Pro tip by the way you can move multiple apps at once by holding one down like this and
then just tapping the ones that you want to add to to the movement and it will all bring it in so
if I bring it over to the bottom here now there we go so in case you didn't know that is a much
easier way to bring bring things over to different screens let me know actually in the comments below
if you didn't know this hack moving on to the dock I usually place my most used three apps here and
usually that is me messages down here and also Safari into the middle and why I use three apps
is that I find it more visually appealing than having four in the dock so moving on to the next
thing to set up which is a filing system for other apps we don't want to clutter the rest
of our phone so I personally like to hide most of my apps because most of them I don't use every day
so to do this let's click on a app here and then click at home screen again click the minus button
and then click remove from home screen instead of delete app and that will just move it off and
hide the app for us now when I want to use the app all I I'll do is pull down on the home screen and
quickly just type out the first few letters of the app and then immediately I just click on it right
then and there which I find is faster than swiping through loads of screens or folders so that's how
I usually like to uh find my apps personally so I recommend using the second page of the home screen
to be a folder filing system and an easy filing system to use is a verb based folder system so
the default folder names you probably already know are things like product ity utilities and
things like that that I find are way too vague so labeling them with verbs like drive and learning
uh listen read learn makes it so much easier to access frequent folders and apps before we move
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on now one of the most overlooked areas to set up on an iPhone is the control sensor here it's
a useful area to set up additional shortcuts so there's less reason to Fumble around in
the settings plus I'd suggest maximizing all the extra spare space down here so to set this up go
into settings and then from settings scroll down to control center so in here go ahe and add in the
controls that you think you'll use most often and my favorite ones are dark mode for example
uh quick notes is really useful as well with these once you go back out you'll see that it has filled
up and you can also by the way manually adjust the positions by going and sliding them up or down so
once we have that set up you can quickly add quick notes like that for example or you can even turn
on dark mode and light mode on and off so really useful area of the iPhone next is setting up the
page to the left of the home screen which is called the today view this page is great for
quick access things to other common widgets you use and you want to glance at so holding on to a
widget here same thing as the homepage click edit home screen click customize here and you can see
all the widgets that you have access to that you can automatically throw into the uh today
view so the few essential widgets that I like to have personally are the battery widgets the time
zone widgets and also the app usage widget one of the most useful features that came out of iOS
16 was Focus modes I still use them every day so going back into settings scroll down to focus and
then from here I recommend setting all these up to activate at certain times for maximum productivity
so for example let's click the plus icon here and then let's create a custom one so let's just name
this one work you know work mode or work number two since I already have one and then set up the
color and the icon and then click next so what you can do here is silence all notifications except
certain people or certain apps so for example if it's work I might want to not uh silence my Google
Calendar my Gmail things like that I can add those apps into here and allow the notifications
so Focus filters here is worth adding as well this is extremely useful adding app and system
filters so for example when I'm working I don't use my phone that much so I turn low power mode on
and also turn off the always on display and then click add and that way we've got um a more battery
efficient phone when it's currently on work mode so yeah go ahead and set up a bunch of these it's
such a useful feature if you use a single phone for everything you do speaking about battery life
there are some big setting changes that we should change and it will help squeeze a lot more out of
your iPhone and here's what they are so let's go back into settings again and then scroll down to
battery now in battery here there's a few things we should change so once you go into battery click
battery health and charging and then click optimize battery charging so that's the first
thing make sure that this is on especially if you have a new phone and this will prevent unnecessary
overcharging which shortens the live span of your battery then if you use iCloud go into backups and
then scroll down to device backups iCloud backup and make sure that the backup over mobile data is
turned off because when it's to toggled on it will drain the battery much faster in the background
and unless you're on an unlimited mobile data plan you want this off anyway now the next few settings
are important not only for battery life but for privacy too we're going to switch off some some
optional location services so going into settings go scroll down to privacy and security then click
location services and then from here review all the apps here and my recommendation is to have
almost all of them set to while using and then go scroll all the way down and click system Services
now this is really important uh Because unless you specifically use certain functions I'd highly
recommend turning most of these off in including Apple uh Pay merchant ID core Network search
suggestions and significant locations if you don't and also if you don't have any accessories then
also homekit to turn that off and then going back a page do the same for the tracking page as well
so click tracking here and just do the exact same thing just review all the apps and see if
you actually need them to track your significant locations and one other thing while we're here is
at the bottom of privacy and secur security you can see apple advertising here if you don't want
personalized ads if you don't want Apple tracking targeting information then turn off personalized
ads right there next is shortcuts so the shortcuts app is something that I don't see enough people
using it's a really easy way to supercharge your iPhone with more functionality so in here you can
create almost any chain of actions that happen automatically so to give you an example I've set
up this fast charge mode and you can see here that it has a lot of automatic steps that I've
set up so when I need to charge my iPhone as fast as possible this shortcut will automatically turn
off Bluetooth Wi-Fi turn off the screen activate airplane in low power mode all at once so it's
able to charge that much faster I've also set up this ultra low power mode here and this one comes
in clutch so when the battery hits 20% and I'm out and I can't charge it it will auto switch to
low power mode and then a custom ultra low power mode if it goes to 5% where I can only literally
make phone calls and that's it it'll take a while to set these all up manually in this video and
explain them so to make life easier I've Linked In the description box a bunch of shortcuts you can
just automatically import to your phone through the links and set them up in um in the shortcuts
app the next setting I highly recommend to turn on is the haptic keyboard and this will make
the typing experience much more enjoyable and tactile so going into settings and then go to
sound and haptics here and then click keyboard feedback so you can have the sound on and also
the haptic feedback turned on and now when we type you have to give it a go you can fill the keyboard
it does drain some battery having this feature on but by not a significant amount and if you enjoy
it I think it's worthwhile having it on next we're going to save a lot of iPhone storage over a long
time by setting up messages so going into settings again and scroll down to messages here and scroll
all the way down to keep messages message history I would recommend switching this to one year
unless you really like to keep your messages for some reason having it set to one year and auto
deleting older messages and photos will really help keep file sizes of messages down massively
um and make sure that the lowquality image mode is also toggled on at the bottom here otherwise
you'll turn your messages into another photo album storage and that'd be a total waste of space one
of the last things to do is to set up your lock screen so go into the lock screen and long press
down and then click customize or add a new lock screen so of course the first thing to do is to
set up a wallpaper I'll use the dunes wallpaper bundle Linked In the description box below if
you guys like it and want to use it too then it's worth adding in quick glance widgets to the top
and bottom of the time and the things that I like to have have here is of course uh the weather so
let's drag that in and I actually like having the sunset time and the sunrise time you can also see
that I added a custom function widget here so like if I tap the custom widget function which is the
Safari icon it will automatically bring up Safari right from the lock screen immediately so to add
custom functionality on your lock screen download a third party app called launcher it is free and
then click on lock screen widgets and then add new and then you're going to add the functionality
that you want to launch from the lock screen so it could be like contact launcher could be music it
could be an app um and then you can set up all sorts of things from here like FaceTime Calles
you can launch Fitness immediately you can launch uh you know Safari like I just showed you so yeah
there's a lot of things that you can do with this app and it just adds more functionality
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