- Let's talk about some iPhone settings you need to turn on
right now.
I've got a whole bunch of new iOS 15 settings
as well as some older iPhone settings
that somehow got turned off when you install
the major update, curious how that happens sometimes.
- It does happen.
- So, let's open the settings app and scroll down to mail,
tap on mail, new setting right here, privacy protection,
tap on that and make sure the switch is on.
I'm pretty sure it's on by default
but you wanna make sure it's on.
- Yeah, definitely make sure it's on,
it's an interesting thing.
Companies, when they send you emails,
typically have the ability to track whether you opened them
and then what you clicked on and then sometimes what you did
because there are these hidden little pixels in there.
This stops them from doing that by doing a convoluted bunch
of technical stuff.
- And just so you know how honest we are, this setting,
if you turn on your iPhone actually would hurt us
a little bit. - Well, I mean,
not like physically. - Not physically.
- If you turn this on, please give this video a thumbs up.
- One thumbs up, that's all we ask.
- That's all, a little thumbs up.
- Let's tap back to mail,
tap back to the main page of the settings app.
- It's not like we're the Mets,
giving our fans a thumbs down. - That's good, yeah.
- Yeah, it's pretty relevant.
There you go. - Tap privacy,
then tap record app activity.
New setting, turn this on.
Unfortunately, the full app activity reports
aren't available yet.
There's a preview of what that will look like
on Apple's website.
It's still in beta, hopefully with public release,
we'll get those app reports and see what these apps
are doing on your iPhone.
You might be able to catch some bad actors in the meantime.
- Bap apptors. - Bad apptors.
- That's a terrible joke,
but really it's just gonna show a lot of websites
in the background that apps are contacting to track you.
- Next, let's tap back on privacy,
upper left-hand corner of the screen,
then scroll up and tap on location services.
Now we're gonna scroll all the way down, it's like a maze.
Tap system services, whole bunch of these switches are on
that don't need to be,
check out our other video,
iOS 15 settings to turn off now,
to know which ones I used to turn off.
- We'll drop a link in the description section below.
So if you're done with this video,
when you are, keep watching this video though,
and then watch that one.
- Well, coming down all the way to the bottom,
to the status bar icon, let's turn that on.
- Yeah. And so then if your iPhone
is using your location, right now,
David has a screen recording going
so it's blocking where it would be,
but you'll see a little arrow up here.
And then if you see that arrow all the time,
that would indicate a pretty big battery problem.
And in the other video,
we talk about how to figure out which apps are using your
location all the time and turn it off.
- Yep. That's it for the privacy section
of the settings app,
go back to the main page of settings.
We're going to tap on focus,
new section of the settings app.
It used to be do not disturb.
Now it's focused.
We've got all these things (indistinct)
and focus you've got do not disturb,
do not disturb while driving some new things,
but we're going to tap on do not disturb.
First thing we want to do here is
allow notifications from certain people.
- Wow - Are there people that you
want to get past that do not disturb?
- He's got one person and it's not me.
- That's for sure.
You tap on allow notifications, add a person,
come through all your contacts,
select whoever you want.
So, tap done and then tap back to do not disturb.
Now there is a whole sleep section of the focus sections.
- Focus on sleeping.
- Yeah, but if you don't want to go through
that whole process, it's a little bit lengthy.
You can also just schedule do not disturb right here.
- Right.
- Add scheduled automation,
you do the time, the location.
Maybe you want to do not disturb to be off
while you're at work.
You're a teacher and you don't want to get distracted
by your phone while you're teaching in class
- Or you do, - or you do that,
please, please - help me,
Get me away from these kids.
- Or when using a specific app. I like this example, books.
You're reading a book
on your iPhone, - right.
- You don't want people to be texting you,
interrupting your flow. - Yep.
- But if you just tap on a time, schedule a time,
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and you know, it's a workday.
Let's just say that, there you go.
We're gonna go back to the main page of settings again.
- Back back, back, back, back, back.
- Let's tap on music. You got to scroll down quite a ways.
There it is right above the photos.
Tap on music.
- Because music is very important
and alphabetically superior.
- Tap on audio, quality lossless audio.
Make sure that switch is on.
- I like this switch.
Finally, our audio is CD quality, back to the nineties.
- Where we're going we don't need roads.
- Throw away your Walkman and the iPhone can do it now.
- Now your iPhone can play CD quality music.
It's amazing what we've been missing out on.
So obviously this is also more than CD quality,
but it sort of makes it a minimum of CD quality.
And then these are important switches.
So say we're streaming. I choose high quality,
which is not lossless
because I don't want to
burn through my whole cellular data plan.
Let's go back.
WiFi streaming high-res Lossless, correct.
- Yep. - Why?
Because you've got WiFi.
It doesn't matter how much data you use.
You want the highest quality.
- Tap back one more time.
Let's hop on downloads.
- Lossless. Kind of a nice in-between.
If you have enough iPhone storage,
definitely choose lossless.
High-res lossless might be a little overkill.
You're running storage faster,
high quality isn't really all that high quality.
If high quality is the highest quality,
Is it really high quality?
(birds chirping)
Isn't that low quality then?
It's kind of like Starbucks, the tallest and smallest.
- Then high quality wouldn't be the highest quality.
- High quality is the lowest quality.
- Here you said high quality is the highest quality.
- Oh, well I was wrong.
- All right. Well. - Good point.
- Let's go back to the main page
of the settings, app, lets talk about some safari settings.
Scroll up just a little bit and tap on safari
- Let's go on a safari.
- They've added quite a bit to safari.
This page is a lot longer than it used to be.
First thing we're going to talk about, close tabs.
I am a cereal leave tabs open person.
- Tab preserver. - Tab preserver.
I checked earlier today had like 25 tabs open,
didn't need half of them.
Half of them were ESPN on like the same LOE page.
- Well the Yankees are doing so bad right now,
it's very frustrating.
- So if you want your iPhone
to automatically close those old tabs here,
you're just never ever going to get back to, here you go.
What do you want to do?
I'm going to choose one month just to play it safe.
At first, we'll see. - Yep.
If only the Yankees could play it safe at first.
- Tap back to safari,
then take a look at this very important setting.
One of the most important ones we're gonna talk about
in this video, it's prevent cross site tracking.
Don't let advertisers track you
as you go across multiple websites in safari,
on your iPhone.
Simple as that. - I like it.
It should be on by default, but it's not.
So you have to turn it on.
- Have to turn it on, shoo.
- So you're on Airbnb,
you go to CNN and you're seeing the ads for Fiji
because that's where you're thinking about going.
You don't need that.
You may see fewer ads
because this makes you less valuable to advertisers.
- Yep.
- Even though people will tell you,
you won't see fewer ads, they're lying.
You probably won't. - Probably want.
- But you might. - You might, so why not.
Let's get back to the main page of the settings app.
We're going to scroll up and tap on accessibility.
Battery tip here.
We're going to tap on display in text size,
scroll all the way down.
Make sure reduce white point is on.
The minimum brightness,
when you're in a totally dark environment,
you're in bed going to sleep you're on a...
- Yeah, I'm trying to get it all the way down
to like the tiniest little bit,
because in bed, these are very bright screens.
So I, I turn mine.
- Yeah, reduce white point, save a little battery life, too
because the screen isn't so bright.
- Right. And maybe auto brightness,
maybe turn that on too,
but we don't turn it on
because it would affect our screen recordings.
We do that for you. - Yep.
- Otherwise it'd be going up and down.
- Next. Let's talk about WiFi calling.
Disclaimer, if you don't see this setting on your iPhone,
it's because it's not included with your cell phone plan.
So if you don't see it. It's not our fault.
It's your carrier's fault. - It's your fault.
Head back to the main page of the settings app.
Scroll down.
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Right after you hit subscribe,
tap the phone in the settings app,
then tap WiFi calling.
just make sure that WiFi calling
is on make and receive phone calls over WiFi
with your Verizon account.
What are the benefits of WiFi calling,
15 seconds. Elevator pitch.
(clock ticking) WiFi calling allows you
to make phone calls using a WiFi connection
in areas with poor cell phone service
- (bell dings) Yeah, you have no service,
you got a WiFi connection,
you can still.
- Make that phone call, send that text message.
And you can even add it for other devices.
I would turn that on, but David does not have it on.
- Let's go back to the main page of the settings app again.
We're just kind of going all over the place.
It's like we're playing chutes and ladders.
Scroll up and tap on battery.
Tap on battery health and tap on optimized battery charging.
Let your iPhone learn your charging habits
to reduce battery aging.
Kind of a no-brainer here. - Yeah. I mean, why not?
- If you like battery tips, card above,
description section below, whole bunch of more battery tips.
If you're into that sort of thing. Good battery health,
good battery life.
- Yep.
Battery everything.
- All right back to the main page
of the settings app again,
I wish there were more settings
that were all in the same section of the settings app.
- They should let us make our own settings
and it's called David and David settings.
I think we should talk to Apple about that.
- Yeah.
Scroll down on the main page of settings. Tap on messages,
scroll down and tap text message forward
and allow your iPhone text messages
to also be sent and received on other devices
signed into your iMessage account.
So if you've got other devices, I love this on my Mac.
So I don't have to check my phone.
- Yeah, sending them to Collin. That's good.
- I'll turn that off. (laughing)
- Yeah, somebody dumped a cup of coffee on their Mac.
Had to borrow a computer. (mumbles).
Not your iPad though.
- I'm not a big iPad texter. - Not a big iPad texter.
Yeah. Cutting board.
Let's go back to the main page of the settings app, again.
How about some camera settings or a camera setting?
If I can find it, scroll down, camera,
there it is. Preserve camera settings.
Tap on preserve settings, preserve camera mode.
Make sure that switch is on. - Wow, Just keep adding.
- It's unbelievable.
- Live photo is the one to really make sure that that is on,
which means that once you turn it off,
it doesn't automatically turn back on every single time.
So instead of taking photos,
you're taking these little videos.
My friend, Dan, just had a very beautiful baby.
He takes live photos all the time. If you asked him,
he would not know that he does,
but it's kind of cute because the kids always move it,
which is nice. You can see your little hand.
- There's a, you know, rare use case for live photos.
- For live photos, but if you don't have a baby,
or you're not taking a picture of somebody
on a Ferris wheel turn don't,
don't take live photos. I mean, we're just talking about,
it's going to fill up all your storage.
Apple's going to sell you more iCloud storage space.
There's a reason why it's really easy to turn on.
Turn this on.
- Turn that. - And then turn that off.
Live photo.
- Next, let's talk about passwords.
If you want your passwords to auto-fill
for maybe, they're saved in Chrome,
maybe they're saved on your iCloud key chain.
You want those to work on your iPhone,
not just your Mac. Do that in settings.
Back to the main page of the settings app,
scroll up and tap on passwords,
face ID unlock, then tap on auto-fill passwords,
iCloud key chain and Chrome.
Where do you want your passwords auto-filled from?
I want both.
Make sure those check marks appear, turn on auto-fill.
- Now, see, I thought I wanted both,
but then I turned it on and then I started getting a popup
every time that was like,
do you want to fill from Chrome or from iCloud?
- Interesting.
- And I was like, iCloud.
Cause I have like four passwords
in Chrome from back in the day.
So, definitely turn this on
because that's what this video is about.
- Turn it on.
- It's actually extremely helpful
for people that use Chrome key chain, turn off iCloud.
But I prefer iCloud key chain or turn them both on
if you use them both.
- Yeah. If I, if I get annoyed, I'll tweet about it.
And then I'll say, hey, this is annoying.
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