- Nine iPhone mistakes, you need to stop making now,
including a special tip for 5G iPhone users,
if you get iPhone 12 or newer,
you'll wanna stick around till the very end,
but first, a tip that could save you a thousand dollars.
- Really, a thousand dollars or more?
Are we lying?
Nope, because if you don't have find My iPhone turned on,
and you lose your phone,
and you have AppleCare+ or another insurance plan,
AppleCare+, for instance will not cover it.
So, let's go to the settings app,
turn on find my because you're out of luck, if it's not on.
- Let's open the settings app,
and tap on your name at the top of the screen,
then tap find my, then tap find My iPhone,
and make sure that switch next to find my iPhone is on.
- Yeah, so you lose it, it's not on,
you go to the apple store
expecting to pay the $149 deductible and they say,
- [Both] "You, you, you get out out here."
- Mistake number two, allowing apps to track you
all over the place.
- My banking app does not need to know
what I'm doing when I'm on Facebook.
- And vice versa. - Yeah.
- Let's go back to the main page of the settings app,
scroll down and tap privacy, then tap tracking.
Here are a list of apps, that can track you
across other apps and websites,
so, you can go one by one and turn off these switches,
Facebook, for example, Facebook hates this setting, right?
- They hate it so much, that they took out a full page ad
in the New York Times
saying that this was gonna kill small businesses.
- And if you recently read about how they lost
$232 billion in market value in a single day,
this setting is part of the reason why.
- Yeah, they're doing great over at Facebook right now,
they're all having great days, Mr. Zuckerberg is thrilled.
- So, you could go one by one through these apps,
what I like to do, is tap that switch
at the top of the screen,
then tap ask apps to stop tracking,
now it's turned off for all your apps,
and future apps can't ask to track,
because where people fall into this trap
is, they download the app for the first time,
and they see all these pop-ups,
give me location access, give me microphone access,
and one of the pop-ups now is, can I track you
all over the place?
They click allow cause they just wanna use the app and...
- As you usually say, allow, allow,
- [Both] Allow, allow, allow.
- Mistake number three, allowing apps to use your location
all the time, even when you're not using that app.
So, let's tap back to privacy, upper left hand corner
on the screen, then tap on location services.
- Yeah, we're not crazy,
we're not telling you to turn off GPS on your phone,
we're just telling you to pay attention,
as David said, to the ones that are always allowed.
- Yeah, so look for that word always,
right at the top of the screen,
Apple Watch Faces always has access to my location,
does it need access to my location all the time?
No.
- Not if you're not using a location enabled
Apple Watch Face.
- There you go, so, if I tap on Apple Watch Faces,
I can choose always, while using the app,
ask next time or when I share or never.
- So if you're using a location based Apple Watch Face,
maybe just while using the app.
- Right.
That's perfect, but also let's find another app,
because Apple apps, if there's any app
that it's okay to leave on for, it's the Apple apps
because they're good developers.
- How about Facebook?
Let's pick on them again.
- Facebook, always has access to my location,
do they need it?
No, do I want them to have it?
No.
- Well, they're having a bad day already though David,
are you gonna make it worse?
- Yes, I'm gonna do while using the app,
and then down here look at precise location,
allow apps to use your specific location,
this setting off apps can only determine
your approximate location.
- Yep, this is the use more batteries switch,
because the more precise your phone gets pinpointing you,
the more battery it uses,
so, if you wanted to use less battery, turn that off.
- Turn that switch off.
Next mistake, this can really slow down your iPhones,
when you have too many tabs open in Safari.
- Nobody has too many tabs open in Safari, David,
everybody knows exactly how many they have open.
- Lots of people do,
I've had hundreds of tabs open at one time in the past.
- Yeah, my mum too.
- So, there are a few different things you can do
to kind of control how many tabs you have,
the first is in the settings app,
let's go back to the main page of settings,
scroll all the way down and tap on Safari,
scroll down to tabs and look for closed tabs,
tap on that, close them manually,
that's how it gets out of control.
After one day, kind of extreme, one week or one month,
I have it set to one month,
I figure if I'm not gonna go back to a page after one month,
pretty safe bet that we can just let it go.
- (laughs) Get rid of it.
- You can also go into safari,
I'm gonna go back to the home screen, and tap on Safari,
and then tap on that tab icon lower right hand corner
of the screen, here's where you can see all the tabs open
on your iPhone right now,
so maybe there's just one tab you wanna leave open,
press and holding that tab, and then tap close other tabs,
that'll close every single tab, but that one.
- That's cool
- But there's also, if you tap done,
let's go back to that tab button,
press and hold on that, close all seven tabs,
and you'll know that there's a problem
when this number is 292, as opposed to just seven.
- Yeah, it's crazy.
So, all this stuff just gets stored
on your phone and it'll slow it down battery life,
as David said, close them.
- The next mistake is leaving Background App Refresh on
for too many apps.
- Background App Refresh allows certain apps
to download new content in the background,
even when you're not using them,
and you can imagine that that could use a lot of data,
so let's check which apps are allowed to do that.
- Let's go back to the settings app,
and we're gonna tap back to the main page of settings,
scroll up and tap on general,
then tap Background App Refresh.
First thing, this is kind of a bonus tip for you here,
if you tap on Background App Refresh at the top,
choose Wi-Fi only, not Wi-Fi and cellular data.
- Battery, really with unlimited data plans nowadays,
it's possible to go through it
and hit the high speed data cap, et cetera.
- Let's tap back upper left hand corner of the screen,
now go through your list of apps,
which apps do you want to be able to download new content
in the background of your iPhone?
So right now, AAA can download new content in the background
of my iPhone, I don't think they need that.
- I don't think they do either.
- I'm gonna switch that off, and just go one by one,
I think you have a pretty good idea
of what apps do and which apps don't.
- Yeah, so, messaging apps, sports apps,
maybe if you wanna get those scores right away.
- Our Next mistake, not canceling subscriptions
on your iPhone, a lot of these subscription based companies
they're banking on you getting that free trial,
then forgetting to unsubscribe afterwards,
I've had this happen to me before and it's sick
and add up quickly.
- Yeah, it's happened to me too.
Happens to the best of us, but how do we get rid of them?
- Well, let's go back to the home screen on your iPhone,
and then scroll up
and tap on your name at the top of the screen,
then tap on subscriptions,
gonna take this second to load here,
and here you can see all these subscriptions
that are active on your iPhone, Apple Music, Simply Piano,
I'm not gonna cancel either of those,
but if you have any that you don't really use
and you kind of forgot about, let's go in and tap on it.
- You might wanna cancel the Simply Piano one.
- Next up, a mistake that I am making right now,
and that is not updating your iPhone."
Let's go back to the main page of the settings app,
scroll down, and tap general, tap software update,
and you can see that big red one on my phone,
because I have not downloaded the most recent iOS update.
- Yeah, so what do we do?
- Yeah well, you just tap download and install,
or install now and it's great out for me,
because my iPhone is not a 15% battery life,
and it is not plugged in.
- Well, looks like it's plugged into me, David,
just saying there's a cord coming out at the bottom of it,
but it's not actually plugged in.
Boom.
- Sneaky
- Sneaky, we're using it as a stand.
- Keeping your iPhone up to date
will just help it keep running smoothly,
also can patch up some pretty significant bugs,
where there was that recent Safari bug
that was kind of out of control,
but an iOS update patched up.
- It was crazy,
you know it's another bug that we sort of have,
is that we don't have a million subscribers yet,
and one of the best ways that you can help us,
help that YouTube algorithm push us out there,
is to hit that subscribe button,
we would really appreciate it,
cause we're almost to a million.
- It's right below that video.
Similar to not updating your iPhone,
not updating your apps is another mistake.
- Yeah, that can cause all sorts of problems
in the background of your phone,
or even with the apps themselves, let's update the apps.
- So, let's go to the app store,
I'm gonna go to the home screen on my iPhone,
and open app store, tap on your account icon
upper right hand corner of the screen,
and then scroll down here,
here's a list of apps with a bunch of updates,
I've got 21, I could go one by one through this list
or just tap update all the top of the screen,
I think I'll do update all after we finish this video.
- He's an expert.
- We promised you a mistake
that 5G iPhone users are probably making right now,
because this setting is on by default,
and it has actually been turned on for me,
after I did an iOS update once,
so, it's always good to go back and check.
- Up until recently, iCloud Backup would work every night,
as long as your iPhone was plugged in,
and you're connected to Wi-Fi,
will backup everything on your phone,
and that's good enough for most people,
but then with 5G iPhones, they said,
"okay, we could just do this all the time,"
which is kinda dumb because even 5G unlimited data plans
have high speed data caps,
and if you're using all of your data to back up your iPhone,
if you're taking videos, or pictures,
you're just gonna burn through your whole data cap,
and drain your battery during the day.
So turn this off, just do it overnight.
- So let's go back to the settings app on your iPhone,
back to the main page of settings, tap Cellular,
and then scroll all the way down to iCloud Backup,
we're not connected to Wi-Fi, use your cellular network
to automatically back up to iCloud,
we don't want that, we're gonna turn that switch right off.
- That's right.
Another mistake you're making, is not joining this channel.
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- He was also the one that gave us that tip
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The next mistake you're probably making,
I think a lot of us make this mistake,
is we don't clean our iPhones nearly often enough.
- Right.
So, let's clean it David.
- Yep, so, couple things you'll need, micro fabric cloth
for the screen and the back, and toothbrush, unused,
or a anti aesthetic brush.
So, get in those ports, really get that gunk out of there.
- Well done.
- So if it's really dirty,
take it out of the case and do it,
and then clean your case separately,
the unused toothbrush is the way to go,
a lot of times people think their phone won't charge,
but it's not that it's just their stuff in the bottom.
Don't use anything metal, anything wood,
anything like a tissue, anything that's gonna splinter off
in the bottom or damage the pins.
- Yeah, there's actually been studies done
that show our cell phones can have more bacteria
than toilet seats,
so, it's really important to clean your iPhone often.
- Yeah, the scientists are really spending their time,
doing some worthwhile research there.
- Those are some iPhone mistakes
you're probably making right now.
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