- Life is hard.
Your iPhone can't fix all your problems,
but you can make it a little bit easier
by changing these five settings.
- Yeah. Let's start in the settings app,
open that up.
Then I'll scroll down and tap on Display & Brightness,
and then tap on Night Shift.
Our phones, our tablets, our computers,
they all emit blue light
which can trick your brain into thinking it's still daytime.
So, if you're using your phone at night,
you may have a hard time falling asleep.
- That's right.
- That's no good. - Yep.
- You can turn on Night Shift manually,
it's something that I do sometimes,
but it's easier if you just schedule it.
So, tap the switch next to Scheduled to turn it on,
and then from 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM
seems pretty reasonable to me.
- Yep, that's about what mine's set to.
I like seeing it turn yellow a little slowly.
The next one is to save your parking spot.
- Yeah, well you know it's kind of difficult
to remember your parking spot,
especially in a large party,
Six Flags, for example, massive parking lots
and you'd walk forever to get there.
- It's awful. - How do you remember?
Well, just ask Siri, save my parking spot.
There we go, parked car.
And now when you go into the maps app,
there'll be the pin right there
where your car is parked, it's great.
I actually use this sometimes when I do park 'n rides.
I get kind of anxious leaving my car
in a public parking lot,
so I just tag the parking spot
and make sure my car is still there.
- You do a lot of park 'n rides, David?
- No, not recently. - Not recently?
You've done it before though?
- I've done it before.
- We've all done the park 'n rides before, yeah.
It's supposed to be some big park 'n rides.
- Yeah. - Yep.
- Do you remember the Shazam app?
- Yes.
- Apple purchased it in 2018
and built it right into your iPhone.
So, if you start playing a song
and you wanna remember what that song is
and not to memorize the lyrics
then Google search it later,
you can just ask Siri,
"What song is this?"
- A minor.
- "All Too Well. (Sad Girl Autumn Version)" by Taylor Swift.
- F major.
Oh look, a song with a C G, a minor F progression.
Never heard one of those before.
Great job Taylor
- So now what you can do,
if you just tap on that song on your iPhone,
it'll take you right to apple music and that song,
make it super easy for you to download that song.
Save it on your phone.
- How was that the best new song?
That is so stupid.
- Taylor Swift. This is-
- You cannot make that the best new song.
- She played in C major,
let's give her an award for that one.
- I love this one. Scan and sign documents.
No need to print it out.
Well, I guess David printed it out.
- Sometimes.
- So. Sometimes it's easier to print it out.
- If you got a document you wanna scan open the notes app
and create a new note,
then tap on the camera icon and then tap scan documents.
So, just gotta pull up just a little bit here
and it will usually capture the document for you.
- What's tough white paper, white background.
- Yep. So then if you tap save,
- Did that work?
- It sure did.
- Wow.
- And then you can come into this document.
So it actually gave me the title
to medical records release form.
This is not a real document, by the way,
I Google searched sample document form.
So don't try to steal this information.
You won't get very far.
So if you tap on your scanned document
and then tap on the share button
in the upper right-hand corner of the screen,
and then tap markup, you can add a signature,
tap that plus button,
lower right-hand corner of the screen, signature.
So I've already got some saved signatures.
If you don't have any signatures,
you can just tap add or remove signature.
- This is all good stuff.
- I'll tap that plus button
upper left-hand corner of the screen.
We'll try and do a new signature here.
It's kinda hard to do with your finger,
but that's close enough and then resize it.
You get the just-
- (hums)The sound effect.
- And once you're happy with your signature size,
just tap done upper left-hand corner of the screen.
There you go.
- Boom.
- There's your scanned and signed document. You all set
- I love it. Next one.
Turn on automatic backups.
This is just very important.
- Yep.
- It's a good idea.
- I actually had a situation where I couldn't open any
non-native iOS app on my iPhone.
- I remember.
It happened twice. Actually.
I'm like, okay, well,
if I didn't have these automatic backups safe,
I would have just lost a whole bunch of data,
which would have been-
- That was a frustrating couple of days.
- That was, it was tough.
- Yeah.
- So let's go back to the settings app,
go back to the main page,
scroll up and tap on the name at the top of the screen.
Then tap iCloud,
tap iCloud backup
and make sure this switch next to iCloud backup is on.
When the switch is on your iPhone will
automatically backup your apps and data to iCloud
when this iPhone is connected to power locked
and on wifi or cellular.
- Is there anything else on this particular
page you want to point out to people?
- Yeah. Turn off backup over cellular.
This is an option for 5G iPhones,
I don't know why apple gave us this option,
but it's a...
you don't want that because you're gonna burn
through your entire cellular data allotment,
- But I have an unlimited data plan.
- Well...
Yeah, well there's high speed data caps.
- Exactly. So you're using a lot of video.
You're backing it all up.
Actually that's the iCloud photos over cellular,
but it's a good idea to just turn this off
it'll back up every night when you're connected to wifi.
- And those are five settings
that can make your life easier.
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