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- Hey everybody, David and David's here
for payitforward.com and upphone.com
and in this video, we're going to tell you
about iPhone privacy settings to turn off.
Now, before we dive into
the actual settings to turn off,
we're going to explain why we're turning them off.
The main practical reason is battery life.
You can save a lot of battery life
by turning some of these things off.
- The second reason is privacy.
Apple, we trust Apple, pretty much
with our personal information.
And a lot of information,
when we turn off these settings,
does it ever leave your device anyway?
Does it get sent to Apple?
Or if it does, it's personally encrypted.
But the things that I don't trust
are the third-party apps
especially the ones that are developed
by smaller companies that have access.
For instance, to your location all the time.
They can use your iPhone's location,
and your account information to figure
out exactly where you are all the time.
So let's dive in and show you how
to turn off some of these settings.
- Great, so open the Settings app,
and scroll down and tap privacy.
Where it started location services,
we just had a really in-depth video
about location services
and link that in the card above.
And the description section below
we'll do an overview here.
So I'll tap location services right off the bat.
Don't turn off this master script at the top.
- We like location services.
GPS lets your iPhone know where it is in the world.
That's a great feature without this,
your iPhone isn't as great as it can be.
- So definitely leave it on.
So here you'll see a list of your apps
that have access to your location
and it has while using never ask.
If you see it always,
just make sure that you want that app
to always have location, access to your location.
- Yeah.
Always is the dangerous one.
So SEFCU is David's bank.
Let's tap on that.
And David's bank,
he's probably logged in with the SEFCU app
and right now it has access
to his location all the time.
Which means that information
about where David is could be sent
to his bank all the time.
It doesn't make a lot of sense.
I'm gonna actually tap never.
They don't need access to my location.
Right.
So just look through this list of apps.
Check the ones, make sure that they
a re tracking your location.
And if they do,
how often and if you're using the app all the time.
Yeah. - Yeah.
Great system services. - Great.
Next up is the system services,
tap on that. - Yeah.
- Our other video we talk a lot
about what each of these actually do.
In this case we're just gonna tell you
which ones to turn off.
- Right.
- So, Apple Pay Merchant, turn it off.
Cell Network Search, could turn that off.
Still gonna work.
A Compass Calibration only if you use
the compass on your phone. - I don't.
- Turn it off.
- Emergency calls and SOS, leave it on.
Find my iPhone, leave it on.
HomeKit..
Do you want the switches to turn off when you leave,
turn it off. - Yep.
Location Based Alerts, Apple Ads Suggestions,
just turn them all off. - Yeah.
- Location-Based Alerts, isn't the same thing.
As those Amber alerts or Weather Alerts
that you receive in your iPhone.
This is a different thing.
So don't worry about that.
Motion, Calibration and Distance,
if you are using a Biking app,
Running app to track
where you're going to leave it on.
Hold on, turn it off.
Setting Time Zone,
if you're not a jet setter, turn it off.
Save your battery life.
Share My Location, if you use it, leave it on.
System Customization, turn it off.
Wifi Networking, off.
It'll still work.
- Turn off a lot of switches there.
- We did.
And then scroll all the way to the bottom.
All these analytics, Product Improvement.
Get rid of that.
- This is all about helping Apple.
Most of these are about helping built a database,
whether it's anonymous or not.
I don't want to use my iPhone battery
to be sending them information
about like, where I am, what my wifi networks are,
what the traffic is, et cetera, et cetera.
- Yep.
Next thing to do here is tap on Significant Locations.
I actually just cleared this history out.
I had it on for a while.
Again, this is a bigger battery drain,
am less concerned about the privacy,
I'm more concerned about the battery.
- Right. People have given
us some feedback about like, hey,
what are you so worried about?
It's battery.
It's not privacy.
We trust Apple.
We know that this information isn't being said.
I don't need a list
of all my places that I've been recently.
- Nope, weird too.
- So I'm just gonna turn that switch off,
turn off significant locations.
- All Right.
So that's the location services piece of this.
And as we said if you want more information,
check out our other video.
We go way more in depth than we just did that.
- Right?
- So I'll go back and back
and back one more time to privacy.
We're back on the main page of the privacy.
- Perfect.
- So we've got Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Photos.
Whenever you open an app for the first time,
a lot of the time, you'll see,
"Do you want to allow this app to use the camera?"
And you say, okay or not now.
And this is the place where all those settings end up.
So let's start with photos.
Even though it's kind of in the middle of the list.
So whenever you tap Allow,
then these are the apps that you've tapped allow for.
And you can like Twitter, for instance,
go and upload photos of Twitter
a photo for Instagram,
it's kind of the whole point of Instagram.
They're gonna get access to your photos.
- Right.
- But if you see some apps here that you know
third-party apps, smaller companies,
may want to turn it off.
- Right. Because theoretically at a various company
could because they have all the access
to your photos, send all your photos
to them using the app,
without your knowledge.
Because third-party apps do have access,
because you gave them access when you said,
Oh wow. - Yep.
So Facer is an app I don't really even use.
I'm just gonna switch that to Never.
- Yep.
- Just to be safe.
- And if you're concerned about this,
you can always turn it back on.
These are the things you can always come back
and turn back on.
Other important here to check is camera.
- Yep.
- Same deal, Instagram.
Do you want to take pictures up on Instagram?
SEFCU is interesting.
It needs the camera to mobile check deposit.
- There it is, yep.
- But it's good to have on a notable Slack.
Those are all good.
- Yep.
- But, turn it off for once..
- Well, you really need to be wary of here
is just third-party apps, small companies,
not necessarily reputable ones
like the big social media companies.
So Contacts, Calendars, Reminders,
it's all the same.
- Yep.
Go through this list.
And for each one, just make sure that you wanna
give these access.
It's about being intentional with your settings,
and not just hitting yes to everything,
and then all of a sudden you're wondering why
something bad happened eventually.
- Yeah. like for Instagram they ask,
can we have your contacts?
We can help you find followers right off the bat.
And I said no.
- This is spam all your friends.
- Yes, spam all your friends.
- Do you wanna be on Instagram?
- Yeah.
- No thanks.
- Yeah.
My bank wanted all my contacts.
Bank of America.
I was like, nope.
- Next We'll scroll down here
to Analytics and Improvements.
I've got all these analytics things on
and drains the battery.
- Right.
- And you tend to have some privacy issues
because third party apps
like Share with App Developers,
It's gonna send information about where you are,
how you use your phone.
So, I mean this is you working for Apple.
And they don't pay me for my analytics.
So unless they wanna start.
- if they start, yeah.
I mean, if they sent me a payment..
- I mean obviously it's providing some value for them.
I'm the one who's paying for the power,
and the cellular data that this is using.
I'm turning this off.
- Yeah, I'm gonna turn it off too.
Just tap all the switches.. - Yeah
- Turn it off.
I turned off the Share iPhone and Watch Analytics
and let us go to half of them
and turn off Share iCloud Analytics.
- Nice and easy.
- Right
If Apple really wants them so bad,
they can write me a note.
- So I'll go back.
And the last thing here is advertising.
You're gonna wanna turn on Limit Ad Tracking.
- Turn it on, to turn it off.
- Opt out of receiving Ads
targeted towards to your interests.
You may still receive the same number of Ads
but the Ads may be less relevant to you.
- I don't care if it's anonymous or not.
They're getting information about this phone
and what you look at.
Which in some cases can be linked to you.
- If we're worried about that just tap
Reset Advertising Identifier, Reset Identifier,
that's all set.
And then I'm gonna turn on Limit Ad Tracking,
all set.
- All set.
- Those are some iPhone privacy settings to turn off.
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