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- Hi guys, David and David here
from PayetteForward.com and UpPhone.com,
and in this video we're going to tell you
about 10 ways to optimize your iPhone.
- So the first one we're gonna talk about
is to optimize your iPhone storage
as it relates to the music that's stored on your iPhone.
- Great.
- So let's head to Settings,
- [David L.] Settings - then down to Music
- [David L.] Down to music, it is down here.
- And then tap Optimize Storage.
- [David L.] Optimize Storage.
- Yeah, and what this does is it removes songs
from your iPhone that you haven't listened to in awhile
to clear up storage space.
So you're iPhone's actually gonna run a little bit faster
if you're running really low on storage.
Just turning this on is a good way
to keep your iPhone running smoothly.
And then you can choose the minimum amount of storage
that you want to have on your iPhone.
So if None is selected, it means that it could go ahead
and delete every single song.
- Don't want that.
- [David P.] Nope, but if 4 gigabytes is selected
then you're still going to have about 800 songs.
- [David L.] Let's go with that for now.
- Sounds good to me.
So our next tip is pretty similar,
but it has to do with the photos on your iPhone.
So let's tap Back to Music,
and Back to Settings,
and then right under Music is Photos.
And make sure that you have Optimize iPhone Storage
turned on here as well.
The Download and Keep Originals setting is cool
if you're going to be printing out photos
or you really need the entire, full resolution photo.
But those files are really big.
So if you're just sending photos to your friends
with email or through iMessage,
Optimize iPhone Storage.
Those photos are more than sharp enough to look great.
- [David L.] Yep.
- [David P.] And if you don't see this setting,
it's probably because you don't have
iCloud Photos turned on.
- Yep, so our next tip is to turn on
Optimize Battery Charging.
So Back to Settings,
scroll up to Battery,
tap on Battery Health,
and then turn on the switch next to
Optimize Battery Charging.
This helps reduce battery aging.
So our next tip is turn off iPhone Analytics,
iCloud Analytics, Apple Watch Analytics,
all the Analytics, just turn them off.
- [David P.] Let's tap back to Battery,
and then Back to Settings,
and head up to Privacy.
And then go down to Analytics, tap on that.
And turn off all the Analytics.
- [David L.] Yep. - [David P.] So, Share iPhone
- [David L.] Don't need that. - [David P.] and Watch.
- [David L.] Yep, just tap OK.
And that just gets rid of a lot of them right there.
And then turn off the switch next to Share iCloud Analytics.
This will save you some battery life,
you don't need to be sending this data to Apple,
- Yep.
- they can improve their own products.
- [David P.] Yep, and cellular data,
it will save you as well.
Our next tip is to turn off unnecessary Location Services.
And we don't recommend you turn off
Location Services entirely,
it's the GPS, it's what let's your iPhone know where it is
in the world, and if you turned it all the way off,
you're Google Maps or Apple Maps wouldn't work.
Your Apple Maps doesn't work anyway, so--
(laughs)
Let's tap Back to Privacy in the upper left and scroll
up to Location Services, right?
- [David L.] Yep.
- [David P.] So don't turn off that switch at the top,
but go ahead and take a look through this list.
If you see any arrows that are purple,
it means that it is using your location right now,
and gray arrows means that that app has used your location
within the last 24 hours.
- [David L.] All right, yeah, well one app I don't need
to have my location, the Apple Watch Faces app.
I don't think I've actually ever used that app.
So I'll just tap Never.
- [David P.] Okay.
- [David L.] There we go.
- [David P.] Yep.
And tap Back, and as you look through this list,
if there's anything that says Always,
turn those off,
unless that app always needs to have access
to your location.
So just tap on the SEFCU one,
because we changed that last time.
- [David L.] Yep.
- Why would David's bank need to have access
to his location all the time?
- No reason.
- And if you're bank app is using your GPS all the time,
it's gonna kill your battery.
It's possible that just one app could be the reason
why your iPhone battery is draining so fast.
- [David L.] Yep, so I'll just tap Never here.
There we go, problem solved.
- [David P.] Yep.
- [David L.] Let's go Back.
- Yep, and let's head all the way to the bottom
to System Services which is our next tip.
We're gonna turn off the unnecessary ones
and you can use David's iPhone here
- Yep. - as a template.
We recommend turning off everything in this list
except Emergency Calls and SOS,
Find My iPhone,
and Share My Location.
- [David L.] Yep.
- If you use that.
Things like Setting Time Zone,
you can just toggle on and toggle off
if you ever go somewhere else in a different time zone,
that's what we do.
But it doesn't need to be checking all the time.
- [David L.] No way.
- [David P.] Yep.
- [David L.] And real quick, while we're here,
just tap on Significant Locations.
Turn this off,
as you can see I actually have a history now
because I've left this on for a while.
- Yep.
- A little weird,
turn this off, save a little bit of battery.
Turn Off.
- [David P.] Yeah.
- [David L.] There we go.
- [David P.] A little bit creepy,
and if you want to clear that history out of there
you can just go to the bottom.
- [David L.] Clear History.
- [David P.] There it goes.
All right. - Nice try, Apple.
- Nice try.
Let's tap Back in the upper left hand corner,
and then at the very bottom of this list
there are more Analytics.
- [David L.] Yep.
- [David P.] So make sure all these Product Improvement
Analytics are off.
These are the ones that have to do with your location.
Turn them off!
- Yep, so our next tip is to switch mail
from Push to Fetch.
- With Push mail your iPhone is constantly checking
your email server to see if there's new mail.
It's always checking.
Is there mail?
But with Fetch, you decide how often you want your iPhone
to check for new mail.
- Yep.
- So let's tap Back in the upper left hand corner,
then Back again to Privacy,
and then Back to the main Settings menu,
- [David L.] Here we go.
- [David P.] And scroll down to Passwords and Accounts,
and then under Fetch New Data down here,
tap where it says Push.
That's gonna open up the Fetch New Data menu.
So first thing is to just turn off Push at the top,
you could also go into individual accounts
and decide whether you want them to be Push or Fetch.
Accounts like Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook
were always the biggest offenders.
They just destroy battery life, but iCloud for instance,
which is an Apple service,
it's designed by Apple so it doesn't really use
that much battery life so it's okay to leave that on Fetch.
Or on Push, I'm sorry.
Let's tap Back to Fetch New Data.
And then last thing to adjust here
is at the bottom of the screen.
You can change it to how often you want you iPhone to check.
What do you want?
- [David L.] Yeah, 15 minutes is what we usually recommend.
And any time, you can always just open up the Mail app
and say, "Is there new mail here?"
- Yeah.
- And you don't have to wait 15 minutes every single time.
- Right, if you want to know, it's gonna tell you.
- Yep.
- Next up, we're gonna turn off unnecessary
Background App Refresh.
Background App Refresh, or BAR,
- BAR
- B-A-R allows certain apps on your iPhone
to download new content in the background
when you're not using them.
So there are some apps that you want to allow to do that,
but other ones that can just burn through your iPhone,
cellular data, and CPU.
- Yep.
- [David P.] Yep.
- [David L.] Back to Accounts,
Back to Settings,
scroll up and tap General,
tap Background App Refresh.
And first thing you want to do here is tap,
this is at the top of the screen,
and make sure you select just Wi-Fi,
you don't want to use cellular data updating apps
in the background of your iPhone.
Make sure that's on Wi-Fi,
and then go Back here,
and then just look through this list.
Which apps need to be refreshing content
in the background of your iPhone?
Likely answer is not many of them.
So start turning off switches.
- [David P.] Right.
And this is going to save cellular data by turning off
that switch at the very top.
- [David L.] Yep.
- [David P.] And it's just gonna also, you know,
save data overall and the amount of work your iPhone
has to do in the background,
which is gonna save battery life.
- So our next tip is to close out of the apps
you're not using on your iPhone.
- And this is a little bit controversial
because a lot of people say not to do this,
because the truth is, you should never have to do this.
But certain apps on your iPhone can crash
and they can rev the CPU up to 100% and get stuck there.
That's why iPhones get hot,
is that a lot of the time an app has crashed
in the background of the iPhone
and closing out your apps is a good way to prevent
problems from happening.
- Yep.
So to do this, open the apps switcher.
If your iPhone has a Home button,
double press that Home button.
If you have an iPhone X or newer,
swipe up from the very bottom of the screen
to the center of the screen.
Opens the app switcher,
I'm not using any of these apps right now.
Swipe them up and off the top of the screen,
now they're closed.
- And our next tip is to clear out
some iPhone storage space.
- Yep.
- Now iPhone's are like computers,
it's not a good idea to let your computer
run out of storage space
because it doesn't have enough room to do the reads
and writes to the hard drive
that it has to do to keep things moving.
Same thing with an iPhone.
So let's head Back in the upper left hand corner,
and then head down to iPhone Storage
which is right there - [David L.] There we go.
A lot of the time you see these great recommendations
that are super easy to set up.
You know, Auto Delete Old Conversations,
save 140 megabytes,
- [David P.] Yep. - [David L.] just tap Enable.
Auto Delete Old Conversations
and any message you received over a year ago
it'll be erased but you probably don't need those messages.
- Yeah, and Review Large Attachments.
Sometimes family members can send you a video
of some recital that's four minutes long
- Yeah. - and 300 megabytes.
And a few of those, and you iPhone's really gonna
take up a lot of space.
- [David L.] Yep.
- [David P.] This makes it easy to find out
which of the attachments from your mail
are taking up the most.
- Yeah, other great ways to clear up
the storage space,
delete some old photos,
delete old videos.
One thing you'll probably see on your iPhone too
is that there's this Other,
kind of nebulous.
We have a video of how to clear out Other and iPhone Storage
we'll link that in the cart above,
and in the description section below.
- What is Other?
We'll answer that question in that video.
- Yep.
So those are ten tips to optimize your iPhone.
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