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- Hey everybody, David and David here
from payetteforward.com and upphone.com
and in this video we're going to tell you
about 8 iPhone settings you should never change.
- Every Apple tech will tell you that our first setting
is one of the most common reasons why
people come into the Apple Store,
especially when their iPhone won't connect to websites,
even though it's connected to wifi.
Let's head into the settings app
and talk about date and time settings.
- [David] Yap. So I'll open settings,
scroll down and tap general, and then tap date and time.
- Never turn off Set Automatically,
and even if you do never change the date and time manually
on your iPhone.
And the reason is that secure websites
use what's called the SSL certificate which is dated.
And part of the way that websites maintain their security
is by checking is the date on the phone
the same as the date of the certificate.
As soon as they get out of whack,
the websites will stop working completely
but there's no alert on the iPhone
that says, "Hey this is why this is happening."
So never change the date on your iPhone manually.
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- Next let's talk about MMS and SMS messaging.
- Every message that's not an iMessage
is either an MMS, multimedia, picture messages
or regular old old-school SMS, text messages.
Let's head to that part of the settings app.
- Yeah, I'll tap back to general,
back to the main page of settings
and then scroll down to messages.
I'm gonna scroll down here to Send as SMS
and the SMS and MMS settings.
- Right. So send as SMS, don't touch it.
MMS messaging, don't touch it.
Group messaging, don't touch it.
If these get turned off,
then you won't be able to send or receive messages
or group text messages
with your friends that don't have iPhones.
So another common reason why people
come into the Apple Store.
They don't know what this is. They turn it off.
They get in trouble.
What's next?
- Next let's talk about auto-brightness.
We're gonna go back to the main page in the settings app,
scroll up to accessibility
and then tap on display & text size
and scroll all the way down here to auto-brightness.
- This is more of a battery saving feature,
auto-brightness for me I just have it on all the time.
Leave it on all the time. It will save your iPhone battery.
- Absolutely.
And while we're here, let's talk about reduce white point.
If you turn this on, you can all save some battery life.
- Right. So you can change that.
I leave this on all the time for me
and 50% just like you do.
The next setting we're gonna talk about is zoom
and unless you know how to use this
it can be extremely difficult to get out of.
And people would come to the Apple Store
and wonder what the heck was going on with their phones.
The fix is pretty simple, but just don't turn it on.
Let's go talk about that. - Yap, let's go back
to the main accessibility page and tap on zoom.
So why don't I turn on zoom show you what that looks like?
- Whoa.
So most people don't know how to get out of this.
And a lot of the time they'll turn this on
with good intentions they wanna be able to zoom in,
but they can't, they get stuck.
And the way to get out of this is to
three-finger-tap twice on the screen.
So this is one of those things
that people will come into the Apple Store with
and we'd fix it in two seconds and then they'd say,
"Why did I drive four hours to get here?"
- To Googled it.
- Sorry.
Yep. Could have watched this YouTube video in the future.
- Yeah. So next, we're gonna go
into the phone section of the settings app.
I'm gonna turn off zoom, tap back to accessibility,
tap back to settings, scroll down to phone.
And we wanna talk about my number.
- So, although there is a my number setting here
and you can actually go in there and change it,
it doesn't actually change your number
on the cell phone networks.
It has nothing to do with that.
It just has to do with the number on your iPhone,
in your contact.
Maybe it has something to do with activation settings
for iMessage.
But if you change it here,
all that is gonna happen is it's gonna break things
on your phone.
Don't change the setting.
Everything, it should be correct.
- Yeah. Well, if it's not your phone number
maybe you change it to your phone number
if (indistinct) with that. - Yeah.
Unless it's wrong, yeah.
And definitely change it.
Yeah. Don't mess with this.
- Next we're gonna go and talk about Safari,
I'll go back to the settings app, main page
and then right below a phone, Safari.
We wanna talk about blocking all cookies
and you shouldn't block all cookies
because some cookies are good.
- Cookies are little tiny files
that save little bits of data
about how you're using your iPhone on the iPhone itself.
- Cookies start with C.
Let's think of other things that start with C.
- And they're not all bad.
The bad ones are the cross-site tracker cookies
which the iPhone selectively blocks, which is excellent.
But the good ones, help you to do things
like save playlists online in Pandora for instance,
or add items to a shopping cart
and then the shopping cart isn't empty
every time you go to the next page on that website,
it's a cookie that allows that data to be stored
on your iPhone.
So leave this one on or else you're gonna have some problems
with websites.
- Yep.
Next we go back to the main page of settings,
scroll all the way up to wifi
and then tap on the information button
next to your wifi network.
And we're gonna talk about a couple of things here
starting with configure IP.
- Yeah. Configure IP.
Don't change this stuff
unless you know exactly what you're doing.
This is all established automatically by your wifi router,
and this can change pretty much
for every wifi access point different settings
that's why Meowi_5G, which is my iPhone network
has its own settings that automatically get configured.
As soon as David were to go in there
and start to change things,
his iPhone will lose its connection
to the internet completely.
- I'll take tap back.
- The next thing is private address.
Private address helps your iPhone stay anonymous
as it goes from one wifi network to the next.
So leaving this on is a good way to protect your privacy.
Just don't turn it off.
- For more iPhone privacy tips, check out our video,
All About iPhone Privacy Settings,
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