Two years ago, we put out a video called,
"6 Facebook Privacy Settings You Should Change Now".
Today, we have many more powerful tools at our disposal
to limit how much information Facebook can collect about us.
Those tools are so powerful,
Facebook recently lost $232 billion in a single day.
- They did.
Sorry, Mark.
- So we're gonna talk about those,
but first we're gonna limit
Facebook's access to your camera, photos, and microphone.
We're gonna start in the Settings app.
Open Settings,
and then scroll down to Privacy and tap on Photos.
So right here, Facebook, let's tap on that.
Do you want Facebook to have access to your photos?
Some people do like to upload photos to Facebook.
- People upload photos to Facebook, David?
- [David] Some people do. - News to me.
- Right now, Facebook has access
to all the photos on my iPhone.
- Too many. - That's too many.
So you can do Selected Photos,
where you choose which photos Facebook has access to.
Or if you're like me,
you don't really upload photos to Facebook
because that's just not something I do.
You could choose None.
So whatever you're comfortable with, just allow all photos,
that's every single photo on your iPhone.
Let's tap back to Photos, upper left hand corner
of the screen, back to Privacy.
A few below Photos is Microphone.
Tap on that.
These are the apps that have access to your microphone.
Do you want Facebook having access to your microphone.
- All the time? I don't think so.
- Probably not.
- No, just unless I'm,
if you're doing a live video on Facebook,
you need to do this.
- So just tap that switch next to Facebook. Turn it off.
Let's tap back to Privacy.
One more setting we're gonna look at here is Camera.
Here are the apps that have access to your camera.
- And so different than photos.
Photos are the photos that are already on your iPhone,
this is for taking and new photos within the Facebook app.
If you don't think you're gonna be doing that,
or live streaming.
- Yeah. Same thing too.
You can turn it off,
and then on the off chance you need to take a picture
through Facebook and upload it right there,
it'll ask for access again.
You can just give it to it and come back here
and turn it off again.
So I'm gonna tap that switch and turn it off.
So let's tap back to Privacy,
upper left hand corner of the screen.
Let's come to Tracking here.
Allow Apps to Request to Track.
Do you want Facebook to be tracking you
across other apps and websites?
- Facebook hates this setting so much.
They took out a full page in The New York Times,
saying that if you turn this off,
then you're killing small businesses.
And they also said, don't subscribe to this channel,
because they don't want you to subscribe,
but you're not gullible.
You are gonna subscribe to this channel.
- This setting is really one of the biggest factors
to that $232 billion one-day loss.
It's amazing how just turning off that one simple switch
can really deal a death blow to Facebook
- Death blow! - Death blow.
- Geez.
- And while you're here, what I recommend doing
is just turning that switch off at the top of the screen
and then, not just Facebook,
now no apps can track you
across other companies apps and websites.
It's something I just really recommend,
turning that switch off.
- Yeah, the secret is that you're not actually hurting
small businesses by turning this setting off.
We're a small business.
We could care less about the setting.
- Yep, let's head back to Privacy,
upper left hand corner of the screen.
Then tap on Location Services.
Let's scroll down and find Facebook.
Right now, Facebook has access to my location all the time,
even when I am not using Facebook.
- Too often! - Too often.
So let's tap on Facebook, Always.
We don't want it to have Always have location access.
While Using the App,
Ask Next Time Or When I Share, or Never.
- Ask Next Time, I kind of like,
but also While Using the App should be as frequent
as it gets for your.
- I'm gonna choose While Using the App,
and then just look at Precise Location.
A lot of apps use your specific location when this is off.
Apps can only determine your approximate location.
That's probably good enough for pretty much every app.
- Yeah, you don't really need
to have Precise Location turn on.
You would, if it was Google Maps, but not for Facebook.
- Yep. So let's tap that switch next to Precise Location
and turn it off.
The next two tips are within the Facebook app,
and Facebook has really buried these settings.
So I'm gonna go and open up the Facebook app on my iPhone.
Tap on your account icon
on that lower right hand corner of the screen,
and then scroll all the way down
to Settings & Privacy.
Tap Settings.
Scroll down.
Tap Ad Preferences.
Tap Ad Settings.
And then down here,
Data about your activity from partners, tap on that.
Choose whether we can use data
from our partners to show you personalized ads.
We recommend turning this switch off.
- Yeah, turn it off.
If you join the channel, we have a guide, a PDF.
- We do.
- It'll walk you through that whole thing.
So if you don't like rewinding,
you don't have to leave a comment
that says, "You guys are going too fast!"
You could just join this channel
- Get the PDF, and also has other apps too,
not just Facebook.
And trust us that they are all similarly convoluted.
So let's go, tapping that back button,
upper left hand corner of the screen.
And we're gonna go back again.
And we're gonna scroll up to Location, tap on Location.
So we did set Facebook and no longer has access
to my location all the time,
but did you know Facebook saves your location history?
So if you have always had Always
as your Location Services option for Facebook,
there's probably be a list of locations
that Facebook has saved.
- Right. And what are they using it for?
To sell advertisers ads, based on your location.
- Once you're in those Location Settings,
tap on Location History,
and then turn off this switch at the top of the screen.
If you wanna see the information that they have,
you can tap See Location History.
I just turn this on for this video,
so there's not much there,
but if you just haven't touched this at all,
that list is probably pretty long.
In our previous Facebook settings video
we recommended turning off facial recognition
and they listened to us.
- They did. - They totally discontinued
face recognition in Facebook a few months back.
That's really, really cool.
- Yeah, they did.
And you're welcome.
- You're welcome.
- Everyone and privacy experts worldwide,
they're reaching out to us.
People say we're doing a really great job.
- Yes.
Those are some Facebook settings
that you should turn off now.
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Their names are rolling down the screen
like a post show credits.
- Yep. Like, literally a post.
- Yeah. Literally.
- Like, they are. Okay.
- Thanks for watching. - Thanks for watching.