The second video in our series about how to save iPhone battery life is Location
Services. I'm David from payetteforward.com, where millions of people go to get help
with their iPhones. Location Services is what lets your iPhone know where it is the
physical world, and it's part of what makes it so great. For that reason, I
don't recommend you turn off Location Services entirely. I'll show you the hidden services
that are constantly draining your battery and I'm willing to bet you've never even heard of most of them. I think it's important
for you to choose which apps and services have access to your location for two
main reasons: 1. They drain your battery, and 2. Because of the personal privacy
issues that come with your iPhone, right out of the box.
Here's how to fix Location Services: Go to Settings -> Privacy ->
Location Services, and choose
Share My Location. if you want to be
to share your location with your family and friends in the Messages app, leave this on,
but be careful: If someone wanted to track you, this is how they'd do it. I'll
turn it off on my iPhone. Next, scroll all the way to the bottom and tap System
Services. Most of these settings don't affect the functionality of your iPhone
at all - they're all about sending data to Apple for marketing and research. When we
turn them off, your iPhone will continue to work the way it always has. My
suggestion is to turn off everything on the page except Find My iPhone, so you
can locate it if it's lost, and Motion Calibration and Distance, if you'd like
to use your iPhone as a pedometer - otherwise, turn it off too. Your iPhone
will work exactly like it did before: The compass will still work and you'll connect
to cell towers just fine - it's just that Apple won't be receiving data about your
behavior. Next, tap Frequent Locations. Did you know your iPhone has been
tracking you everywhere you go? You can imagine the excess strain that puts on your
battery. For that reason, I recommend you turn off Frequent Locations.
Tap back to System Services to return to the main System Services menu. Scroll
to the bottom and turn on Status Bar Icon. That way you'll know your location
is being used when a little arrow appears in the upper right-hand corner,
next to your battery. If that icon is on all the time, there's probably something
wrong. Tap back to Location Services to go back to the main Location Services
menu. Lastly, turn off Location Services for apps that don't need to know where
you are.
Here's what you need to know: If you see a purple arrow next to an app, it's using
your location now. A gray arrow means it's used your location within the last 24
hours and a purple outlined arrow means it's using a geofence. We'll talk more
about using geofences later. Pay attention to any apps that have purple or gray
arrows next to them and ask yourself this question: "Does this app need to know
my location to work?"
If it does, that's fine - leave it on. If it doesn't, tap the name of that app and choose
Never to stop that app from unnecessarily draining your battery.
A geofence is a virtual perimeter that apps use to send
your alerts whenever you arrive or leave a
destination. It's a good idea in theory,
but for geofencing to work, your iPhone has to constantly use GPS to ask, "Where am I? Where am I?
Where am I?", and that drains your battery really fast,. I don't recommend that you used geofencing or
location-based alerts because of the number of cases I've seen where a person couldn't get
through a full day without having to recharge their iPhone battery, and
geofencing was the reason. Thanks for watching and remember to subscribe. And
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