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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
nine Samsung Galaxy settings you should turn off now.
- These settings are going to help you save battery life
and protect your privacy.
And the first one is to turn off
Install Unknown Apps.
This setting allows apps on your phone
to install other apps without your consent.
It's not a good idea.
- Especially if they've got a real sketchy third-party app
which would then install more sketch,
it's like a pyramid scheme of bad apps.
- Exactly.
- Yeah, so I got the Samsung Galaxy S20 here.
I'm going to swipe down the upper right-hand
corner of the screen, and that little gear icon,
just tap on that, and now you are in the settings app.
Pretty cool. So this is in Biometrics and Security.
Scroll down to "Install Unknown Apps,"
and here you'll see a list of your apps.
You want these to say "not allowed,"
and as you can see right here, Messages says "allowed,"
so I'll just tap on Messages and turn off the switch
next to "allow from this source."
- Next we're gonna choose which apps are allowed
to use data to download content
in the background of your Galaxy phone.
- So let's go back to the main page of Settings
and we're going to go to Apps.
Here once again, you will see a list of your apps.
So just go ahead and tap on one.
I'll do Bixby Vision, I guess,
and then tap on mobile data.
And here you go, allow background data usage.
Do you want this app to go to use your cellular data
in the background of your Samsung Galaxy?
Sometimes the answer is going to be yes.
- Yup.
- Other times it's gonna be no.
You have to make that decision for yourself.
- Right, so it's gonna no for most apps.
And it's going to be yes for apps
where you need to get updates
when you're not using your phone.
So like messages apps, Facebook, social media maybe,
if you want to get these updates.
It's sort of similar to notifications,
but this is actually downloading content
which can be a lot more data heavy than notifications are.
- Yeah, so you wanna turn it off for an app,
just tap that switch next to allow background data usage.
The next thing we're going to talk about is similar,
allowing apps to run in the background of your Android,
and a lot of times you don't want this to happen either.
That'll drain your battery when you're not using the apps
and you don't want all your apps
running in the background all the time.
- Exactly.
- So we're going to go back one screen here
and tap on Battery and allow background activity,
that's the setting, if you don't want this app
running in the background on your Samsung Galaxy
all the time, tap that switch, turn it off.
You have to do this for all your apps,
so it might, you know, a little bit of a longer process
but this is just one example.
- Next we're going to turn off
usage and diagnostic information,
which is going to stop your phone from sending
that type of data to Samsung
or app developers in the background
when you're not using your phone.
You can save data, save battery life.
- Yep, so let's go back to the main page of Settings,
a lot of tabs here, and we're going to tap on Privacy,
and here it is, send diagnostic data.
That switch is currently turned on.
Turn it off.
- Right, next we're going to talk about
turning off ad personalization.
Maybe you've seen "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix.
If you haven't, it's an excellent watch.
Talks about how companies track you,
how they use your personal information to sell you,
you are the product,
and they make money off of us.
- Yeah.
- These services aren't free. They're selling us.
So you can protect yourself a little bit
if you change a simple setting.
- Yeah, this is one of the ones you have to turn on
to turn it off, right?
So we're gonna scroll down to Ads in Privacy.
And we're going to turn on the switch
next to "Opt out of ad personalization."
- Yep, you will still see ads,
but they will not be based on your interests.
And the truth behind this is you may still see
as many ads but you may see fewer ads,
because what this is going to do is it's going to
make you less interesting to advertisers.
Every time you see ads, not to get too deep into this,
but an auction runs and they auction you off.
If they don't know that much about you--
- Undesirable.
- Yeah, and sometimes there just won't be an ad.
Nobody will pay for it.
So we basically want to make ourselves as bland as possible.
- Yeah, we want to make ourselves worthless.
We're gonna it's gonna tap that okay button there,
come on, there it goes,
and now opt out of ads personalization is on.
The next thing we're going to turn off
is Improve Location Accuracy.
- And this is a great battery sitting tip.
How do we do it, David?
- So let's go back to the main page of Settings
and tap on Location, Improve Accuracy,
use wifi and Bluetooth for more accurate location detection.
It doesn't need to be so super accurate.
- [David] No it doesn't.
I don't, I don't feel that way anyway.
- And just turned off the switches
next to wifi scanning and Bluetooth scanning.
If it's constantly scanning to improve your location,
it's going to drain battery faster.
- Right, simple as that.
I suppose, if you had an app and it wasn't close enough,
you could turn these back on,
but these probably should be off by default.
Of course they're not, you know,
it would make sense if they were.
- The next thing we're gonna turn off
is Google location tracking.
This is kind of like Significant Locations on iPhone,
where it just makes a list of all these places
you visit often and it might improve your experience
if you needed to take a bunch of photos
at a family vacation maybe and it kind of tags location,
but it's a battery drainer.
It's a little weird, you know.
- Yeah, it's kind of a weird thing.
People could see everywhere you've been
if they use your phone.
- I don't want Google having that information.
So let's go back one page.
We're on Location Settings and we're going to tap
on Google Location History, so pull up your Google account.
And there's the switch, location history is on.
Turn that switch off, pause location history,
and that has little information there.
And just tap pause.
- Next we're going to turn off unnecessary app permissions.
Let's head to that menu, because it's easier to explain
if you look at it.
- [David] So we'll go back to the main page of the settings
and tap on Privacy, Permission manager
right at the top, tap on that.
- Perfect, so this breaks down the different categories
of permissions that your phone has,
like camera, which apps can use the camera,
which apps can access the phone or the microphone.
And it's a good idea to just go through
these individual settings and make sure that
there aren't any sketchy apps
or apps that you don't think should have access
to your microphone, for instance.
- Yeah, microphone and cameras seem to be the two big ones.
Step one, microphone.
Right now, Camera, Duo, Facebook,
Messages, and Samsung Capture.
If you don't want Facebook having access to your microphone,
you might just want to tap on that and set it to deny.
- [David] Yep. Perfect.
- There you go, just hit back, now it's gone.
And real quick, let's also just take a look at camera.
Just make sure.
- [David] That's the other big one.
- AR Zone, Bixby Voice, Camera,
Duo, Messages, Phone, Samsung Capture.
Those all seem pretty reasonable to me.
- They do, and we haven't actually installed
a lot of apps on this phone yet because it's new.
Take a look through your list, it'll probably longer.
- Especially when you install a new app
and it asks you for all these permissions,
and a lot of people just tap allow, allow, allow, allow.
And then all of a sudden they're like
"why does this app have access to the microphone?"
- Right.
- You allowed it when you installed it.
- Right. That's how they get you.
The last setting we're going to talk about
is turn off unnecessary location services.
This will disable certain apps
from the ability to use your GPS,
which is going to save your battery life.
- Yep, so let's go back to the main page of settings
and tap on Location.
Then tap on App permissions,
and here are how your apps are using location.
Like right now, Facebook is using my location all the time.
- Bad.
- Bad, very bad.
- [David] Everything using location
all the time is bad basically.
Even Maps.
- Yeah, well Maps, you only need it while it's in use.
- Yeah, let's go in here and tap on these.
- Yeah, I'll tap on Facebook and here you go.
Location access for this app,
allow only while using the app or deny.
I'm just going to deny Facebook access to my location.
- [David] Right, and let's do Maps though and give it the--
- [David] Maps.
- [David] Yeah, a little bit gentler.
- Allow while using the app. Let's tap that.
If you deny, I hit the wrong button.
If you deny this permission, basic features that your device
may no longer function as intended.
- [David] Just tap Deny anyway.
- Deny anyway.
If you have an issue with your maps,
you can come back to this video and yell at us.
- It still works.
- Leave a negative comment, yep.
Yeah, those are the nine Android settings
that we want to tell you about the Samsung Galaxy.
Turn those off immediately,
improve privacy, save battery life.
- It's going to make a big difference.
A little bit, big difference.
- Yeah, thanks for watching this video.
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Leave a comment down below and if there are any other
settings we should be turning off, let us know.
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to use data in the background of your iPhone.
- It's an Android.
(laughs) Samsung, Samsung Galaxy.
Apps.
- And then we're going to tap Choose App.
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Let's go back to the, the.
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