- Hey, everybody, David and David here
from PayetteForward.com,
and UpPhone.com.
And in this video,
we're going to tell you
about some iOS 14 battery tips.
Now one of the biggest changes
with the iOS 14
is that home screen,
looking at all these amazing widgets,
but if you start
to add a whole bunch,
it can drain your battery pretty quickly.
- Yep, widgets are like mini apps,
and they used to be this...
Their own thing,
totally stand-alone,
but like David just said,
they will drain your battery
if you have too many,
so go ahead, David.
- Yeah, so. - How do we clean this up?
- Yeah as you can see
I got some widgets on my home screen,
what you should really look for,
as you swipe left to right,
you'll see all these other stuff,
and you might not even use these that often,
so if you wanna remove some of these widgets,
press and hold on the screen,
I tap edit home screen
just so I can get all the minus icons there,
and to start removing things
that you don't use. - All right.
- So, I mean the map,
I just feel like that one's kind of useless.
I've got weather on my home screen,
don't need that,
and I don't have any stocks,
so I can just tap that minus button, tap remove,
and you're done.
- Mm-hmm. - Tapped up.
- If you were a stock,
I'd invest in you.
- Excellent.
- Okay, what's our next step?
- The next thing we're gonna do
is turn on optimized battery charging.
This will just help reduce battery aging on your iPhone.
So to do that,
open the settings app,
scroll down to battery,
tap on battery health,
and just turn that switch
next to optimized battery charging.
- This feature has gotten better
over the last few years.
Right now David has enough capacity
where there isn't that switch.
You might see a switch there
that you can flip
to give your iPhone fast performance,
but you could just leave it the way it is.
- Yeah, if that percentage is really low
like 50%, you might wanna consider
getting the battery replaced
or getting a new iPhone.
- Yep, and a great place to do that
is on UpPhone.com.
- Yep, so our next tips,
we're gonna do a lot of stuff
within the privacy settings
of your iPhone.
So let's go back to battery,
back to the main settings page,
and I'm going to tap on privacy.
So where should we start here?
- Let's go to location services at the top.
And first thing to do
is take a look through the list.
Pay special attention
to any apps that say, "Always,"
because those apps can always be using your location,
location services, GPS on your iPhone,
this is one of the major reasons
why iPhones have been dying
for the longest time.
- Yep, so I've got always on SEFCU,
I mean, it's probably good
if you wanna find an ATM near you, but...
- Maybe, but you could just open the app.
- You could just... - Why would David's bank app
need to know where he is all the time?
- I don't know.
So I'm gonna tap on SEFCU,
I'm gonna switch it to while using the app,
because if I wanna find an ATM,
I can just open up the app,
find an ATM near me.
- Yep, and this gives us an opportunity
to talk about another new feature in iOS 14,
which is awesome,
which is this precise location switch.
So this is also going
to save you a little bit of battery life
and protect your privacy.
When app developers create iPhone apps,
they have a number of different settings
that they can choose from
to tell your phone how specific it should be
with exactly where you are.
The more specific it gets your location,
the more battery it uses,
so Apple has a whole thing on their developer website
about being responsible.
Not all app developers,
especially app developers
that make smaller apps,
really care about the difference here,
because they really don't have to.
- Mm-hmm.
- So if you wanna protect your privacy,
and save some battery life,
go through your list of apps
and location services
and...
Turn off that precise location thing
for apps that don't need to know
precisely where you are.
- Beautiful, let's go back
to location services.
Next, tap on system services.
You see a whole bunch of things here,
and we usually recommend
turning off pretty much every single one.
- Yeah, a lot of these are for Apple.
For instance, cell network search,
your iPhone will still connect to cell networks,
even if Apple doesn't know where you are.
- Yep.
- Compass calibration.
We leave...
What do we leave on?
Let's just talk about that.
- So emergency calls and SOS.
Emergency SOS is a great feature,
you press your side button five times
and it automatically calls 911 for you,
it's a...
- Well it gives you the slider.
- It gives you the slider. - Yeah.
- That's great.
- Mm-hmm?
- Yeah, exposure notifications, COVID related.
You probably wanna leave that one on
just in case you happen
to get exposed to COVID,
you probably wanna know about that.
- Yep.
- Find my iPhone,
great feature, we wanna keep that one on.
- Mm-hmm.
- Motion calibration and distance.
- Yeah, if you care about
motion calibration and distance.
For instance, my friend Dan
and I go golfing a lot,
he leaves this on
because he has a golf GPS app on his phone
that connects to his Apple watch,
it's pretty cool.
If that wasn't on,
it wouldn't be as accurate.
- Yeah, one thing we get a comment about
every now and then is WiFi calling.
If you turn off this switch,
WiFi calling still should work,
if it doesn't,
just come back,
turn the switch on.
- It still works.
It definitely still works
because I have it off
and it still works.
David has it off. - Yep.
- And it still works.
- Yep, so next we're gonna tap on significant locations,
another feature that kind of tracks you where you go,
and says, "Here are the places
you are most often,"
and it helps create some custom photo albums sometimes.
But it's a battery drainer,
I don't think it's useful,
I think it's kind of weird when these...
The list of places starts to stack up,
so I like to turn this one off.
- Yeah, David doesn't have any locations here
because we both leave this off all the time.
Battery drain, privacy issue. - Yep.
- It used to be called frequent locations,
that was too creepy,
so they changed it to significant locations.
- Yeah, so let's tap back again.
- Mm-hmm.
- And down here you have some product improvement stuff.
Go ahead and turn this off,
iPhone analytics, popular near me,
routing and traffic.
Don't need it.
- Apple is gonna be fine,
without you sending your data to them,
in my opinion. - Yeah.
- If you want to, feel free.
- Yeah, so let's go back
to location services
and we'll scroll up.
- To privacy, head back to privacy.
- Privacy. - Perfect.
Now let's scroll down
to the very bottom
and tap on analytics and improvements.
So here we have a bunch of options,
you might not see all of these options
because we're running the beta.
Just go ahead and turn off everything.
- Yep.
- This is just sending data
about how you use your iPhone to Apple.
Recently, they got caught working with people's...
This improved Syrian dictation thing,
that's a new thing,
because they got caught,
they were listening to people's Siri conversations,
to try to improve the products,
but without their permission.
So now they made it
so that you have to give permission
for Apple to listen to your Siri.
- That's good events. - Conversations.
Yeah.
- Let's tap back again,
a new iOS 14 feature here
is this research,
sensor and usage data option.
Sensor and usage data is sensitive research data.
Enabling its collection allows apps
and studies you authorize
to access important sources
of information that are otherwise unavailable.
- Mm-hmm.
- Kind of like iPhone analytics
where it might drain your battery
a little bit,
send some of information,
I'm gonna turn this off.
- Yeah, go right ahead
and turn that off.
You can always turn these things back on
if there's an issue.
And if there is an issue,
like you download a new app
and you get a new product or something,
that app will say,
"Hey, you have to go back to settings
and turn this thing on before it'll work."
It's pretty easy to do,
so it's good to just go here
and turn everything off,
you can always turn it back on.
- Next we're gonna go
to settings general background app refresh.
Tap back to settings,
tap general, tap background app refresher.
Next tip is just to turn this off
for apps that don't need
to be constantly refreshing new content
in the background of your iPhone.
- Yeah, so this allows apps
to download content
when you're not using the app.
Go ahead and turn it off for those apps.
- Yeah, Chipotle, no, no.
You just start turning off switches,
I've got a lot of them already turned off, but...
- It's gonna be mostly off.
- Yeah. - I think on your iPhone,
if you set it up correctly.
For me, I leave it on for the messaging apps,
because I want those to be able to update.
- Mm-hmm.
- I leave it on for my mail app.
If you are a sports fan,
maybe you leave it on for ESPN.
- Yeah.
- Maybe you leave it off for now
until they bring back sports,
but maybe you're watching this
after sports are back,
which will be awesome,
we're looking forward to that.
- Yeah, one more thing to do here
is just tap on background app refresh,
I like to set this to WiFi only
just 'cause I don't want all my cellular data
to be drained refreshing content
in the background of my iPhone.
That might also save a little bit of battery life.
- Sure, definitely.
- That's why I like to switch to WiFi.
- Great idea.
- But don't use the off master switch.
- Right.
- There are apps that you're gonna want this,
like we said,
messages, ESPN, social media,
you're gonna wanna leave it on for some apps.
- Yeah, sometimes we get comments
that are like,
"This is a great iPhone,
how come you tell us to turn every single thing off?"
"Now it's just a piece of crap,"
but we don't tell you to turn everything off.
We just say,
"You should be deliberate,
intentional, about which settings
you wanna have on
and which ones you don't wanna have on,"
and that's why we're here.
- Yep, our next tip is
to turn on the reduce motion.
This will just cut down
on some of the onscreen animations on your iPhone
and you won't miss them very much,
I don't think the average user even realizes
some of the animations you're seeing.
Let's go back,
and then back and back to settings,
and we're gonna tap on accessibility,
tap on motion,
and just turn on this switch next to reduce motion.
- Sweet, yeah, the GPU,
or the graphics processing unit
inside iPhones is one of the biggest battery drainers.
If you talk to anybody
who plays a lot of 3D games, kids,
their phones get hot
because the GPU is working a lot
and the batteries drain fast.
This will put less load on your GPU
and your battery will last longer.
- Couple more tips,
we're gonna set auto-lock to two minutes.
If you leave auto-lock to never,
you might end up in a situation
where your screen is on all night
and then you wake up
and you got no battery life.
- Right, I just ended up leaving it on in my pocket,
so with auto-lock,
is how long it takes before your screen turns off.
- Yep, so let's go back to accessibility,
back to the main page of settings,
tap on display and brightness,
and then tap on auto-lock.
I have it set to never now
because we're doing a screen recording,
and the last thing we want
is the screen to go black
and then screen recording cuts off it's YouTube thing.
We recommend setting into two minutes,
that's pretty standard.
- Yeah, the last thing you want
is for a button to get hit,
and like David said,
I've actually had this before,
when we've recorded a video,
and then I forgot to turn this off
and then I left it on in my pocket all day.
So, oops.
- Yep. - Yep.
- Another big battery drainer is Push mail.
We're gonna switch mail from Push to Fetch.
Let's go back to the main page
of the settings app
and tap on mail.
- Yep, and then tap on accounts.
I love how they changed this...
Like every version of iOS,
they change the precise location of this.
With Push mail,
your iPhone is constantly asking
the email server,
"Is their mail?"
Keeps that constant connection.
With Fetch, you decide how often
your iPhone checks to see if there's new mail.
So with Fetch,
we recommend just changing your accounts to Fetch,
and then they will refresh,
let's say every 15 minutes,
I think is fine,
it's better than all the time.
And I don't think you'll notice the difference
because it's still going to refresh
whenever you open the mail up for instance,
it's not like you're gonna really miss it.
So unless you're in a profession
or something where you really need
to get those updates immediately,
Fetch new data is the way to go.
- Yeah so just tap on Fetch new data.
First, turn off the switch next to Push as you said.
Every 15 minutes is pretty good,
open the app if you're looking for an urgent email
of refresh on that before.
- Yeah, be careful of Microsoft exchange servers in here.
Like David has here,
he's got Gmail in Fetch,
which I like,
and iCloud on Push,
which I also like,
because iCloud being an Apple service
really doesn't drain
all that much battery if it's unplugged.
- Yeah, so our last tip
really is just to turn your iPhone off
once every week.
If you leave it on
for extended periods of time,
little software bugs
and started draining the battery,
and...
- Yeah, but with the RAM fill...
This is one of those tips,
where people will say, "You're crazy."
"You should never do that because there's no effect."
But in truth,
the software on iPhones isn't perfect,
sometimes things glitch out in the background,
this is a way to start fresh.
So as David just said,
this is one of those,
wearing your seatbelt
when you're driving in the car type of tips,
where you should never have to do it,
but in case something goes wrong,
you'll be glad you did.
- Yeah. - It's quite the metaphor.
- And I guess on that note too,
closing out of your apps
when you're not using them.
- Yeah, let's do it.
So on an iPhone 10 and newer,
swipe up from the very bottom of the screen
with your finger
and hold it there,
and then swipe apps off the top of the screen.
iPhone eight and older,
double tap the home button.
- Yup, and even any iPhone with the home button,
double tap the home button.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, that's just good...
If an app crashes in the background,
it could start draining your battery pretty quickly,
and you wouldn't even know it, so...
- Yeah, I do that once in a while too.
It's like an automatic habit now.
- Yeah.
- I can't not do it.
- Yes, so there are our whole bunch
of iOS 14 battery tips.
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