Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 13 pro and iphone 13 pro max have been out
for a few days at this point and i wanted to share with you some things to try and some best settings
based on how i have my phone set up now these things will work on the 13 and 13 mini however
certain features such as pro motion and camera and more are new to the 13 pro and pro max so some of
these things will be specific to those devices now the first thing is apple's new pro motion a lot
of us have wanted this for some time 120 hertz promotion that makes the display super smooth
and if you want to see the difference you can actually do that by going into your settings
and if it doesn't matter to you you can actually turn it off so if you go into your settings
and then you go down to accessibility and then you go to motion you have the option to limit
the frame rate limiting the frame rate will show you the difference between the smoothness
of promotion and turning it off altogether so you'll see if we turn this switch on here
it says sets the maximum frame rate of the display to 60 frames per second
now the great thing about pro motion is it actually ramps up to 120 hertz when needed
and then goes down to 10 hertz when not needed to save power when it's at 60 frames it can't
go up to the higher limit so it will actually save you a little bit of battery if you were
scrolling through things now if you switch this off and then you go back and switch it back on
i can definitely tell the difference between those two things it's hard to see on camera but
in slow-mo you can actually see the difference so there is a definite big difference on that
now some other things i wanted to share with you is i would recommend keeping that on and
trying it for a while but some other things i would change have to do with the display itself
under display and brightness under your settings there's a couple things that you may or may not
like i personally turn off true tone because i want to see maybe what a photo looks like based
on the photo not based on the room light that i'm in so turning on true tone will adjust the display
based on what the ambient light is like and trying to make white more of a paper white i typically
turn it off because i want accuracy all of the time instead of this adjusting on its own if you
like true tone of course keep it on if not i would recommend turning it off i typically leave it off
the same is true for night shift if you want to edit photos or video i would typically turn it
off and then turn it back on as needed or you can schedule it however i personally leave it off as
i don't tend to like the way it makes the display look or you can just turn it on and you'll see it
just yellows there i don't like the way that looks but it's good for going to sleep maybe
getting ready for bed then you can turn it back on or leave it on scheduled i typically
turn those things off just to sort of make sure this is as accurate as possible since i'm using
it as a tool to record video and take photos now the other thing too you may want to take
into consideration is auto lock now currently i have it on never so the screen doesn't lock
by itself while i'm making this video but under auto lock i typically have it on 30 seconds and
the reason for that is it will save the most power if i set the phone down not only is it is it open
and maybe a security risk if i set the phone down it will lock itself in 30 seconds
obviously you have different settings here one minute two minute three minute four five or never
and use whatever is best for you but if you're by yourself and you set your phone down you can
leave it if not i would recommend 30 seconds for the best battery life now finally to do with the
display under display and brightness at the top you'll see that we have appearance light or dark
i typically have this on automatic because i like it bright during the day and at night i want to
switch it to dark mode this will save a little bit of battery leaving the pixels black if it's on a
true black display but typically it's not a huge difference unless you have a lot of apps that are
completely dark now if you switch between light and dark obviously there's a big difference and
some prefer one way some prefer the other i typically prefer automatic so it switches based
on time of day at night this will be dark during the day it will be light so those are the settings
i use for my display now the next thing that's big in the 13 pro and pro max is the cameras
the cameras are really great in fact i've used them quite a bit for a lot of the videos with
unboxings and things in the past few days as i've been unboxing the iphones but the cameras
have some settings that i typically change and these of course can be customized to your liking
under camera if we go under camera you'll see that it says photo and then you have the new cinematic
mode the cinematic mode is something i would try out for sure if you haven't tried it already it
allows you to pick a subject afterward that's in focus but it does only record in 1080p so this is
something i would recommend trying out and seeing how it is for you but typically i would recommend
trying it see if it works if it doesn't it's basically like a portrait mode for video
but in only 1080p but if you want that higher resolution you'll need to go to your video mode
now under video modes one thing that you may want to change has to do with your settings
for the camera in general typically one thing i change has to do with locking these settings how i
leave them so when you go into your camera if you change a setting and then you go out and go back
in sometimes those settings actually revert back to something else i want them to stay how i've had
them all along and so we can do that by going into our settings and then we go down to our camera
under camera you'll see that we have preserve settings under preserve settings you can see
we have camera mode creative controls exposure adjustment night mode portrait zoom apple pro raw
and live photo if we want to have the settings stay like we set them in the camera app itself
you'll want to turn these on if they're not on every time you leave the app they'll revert back
to something else so i recommend turning that on as it's something that bothers me quite a bit
now another thing i highly recommend trying is apple's new macro mode on the pro cameras so if
we go to photo and as we get closer to maybe this iphone here you'll see that it switches
to macro mode it has this sort of jump where it senses that it's getting closer and closer and
then you can get about two centimeters away but where it's most impressive is with maybe
a cleaning cloth or a microfiber cloth this goes to my pro display xdr and as we get closer we
can get really really close let's see how close we can get we'll snap that photo and using the
processor and the neural engine you'll see that we can see the littlest fibers within
the microfiber cloth it allows us to zoom right in and get up close to everything i highly recommend
trying this out it also works in video modes so if you want to get nice and close in video
we'll see if it jumps there you can get nice and close in video and do the same thing so you do
have to reset sometimes by pulling back but you have those new modes which are really nice another
thing you have that's great in this is new photo modes or we have scenes so if we go to this button
here which allows us to flip between different modes you'll see we have a couple things here
this button right here is one of the new features and this applies to the 13 and 13 mini as well so
if i bring in the iphone 13 pro you'll see here we have different modes so we can switch between them
between standard mode maybe rich contrast maybe vibrant and it will stay on this mode as you set
and then you can adjust things such as tone if we want it to be a little bit more or less vibrant
and it gives it a name and then we'll switch to warmth if we want it less warm or more warm or
cool you can leave it that way and then it will stick every time you come back and take a photo
these are not filters but they're rather sort of cinematic modes or photo styles that will give
you this look and keep the look that you prefer so that you can post it on social media whether that
be instagram or youtube or somewhere else now another thing i personally change is with the
photo mode as far as its aspect ratio so you'll see it says 4 3 i prefer 16 9 and this allows me
to frame different thumbnails for youtube in the way that they'll look youtube wants 16 by nine
thumbnails so i typically set it up like this 16 9 frame the photo take a photo and now it's framed
perfectly i don't have to go in later and then crop it so it's something that allows me to see
the entire frame the way i want it to see when it's done so that's something that i recommend
if that works for you then you can post it whether that be on youtube or instagram or somewhere else
or keep it at 43 or square whatever works for you you have the option but because we set those
settings earlier to have the camera settings stick when we leave if i set it to 16 9 leave the camera
app go back in it will still be on 16 by 9. now the next thing i would recommend doing is if you
haven't had this turned on already is to preserve some battery life or preserve the health of your
battery overall i would go to your settings then battery under battery health make sure optimized
battery charging is turned on this will learn the patterns of your charging and then you can charge
at night if you'd like to leave it on the charger it will ramp up to 80 percent and then it will
hold at 80 percent until it's closer to the time you normally wake up and then it will continue to
100 that way it doesn't keep the battery at 100 percent which typically degrades it a little bit
more quickly over time if it stays at 100 it will keep it at 80. so i typically recommend turning
that on then you don't have to manage anything iphone can manage it now other than the optimized
battery setting i typically turn off background app refresh as well and the reason for this is it
will refresh all of the app data in the background and continue to use power now if it's an app that
you use regularly maybe you're opening up youtube regularly you may want to leave it on however i
typically just turn it off because it saves the most amount of power and it's not something that
i typically value however it's possible that it could save a little bit of power if you're going
into that same app over and over but i typically turn that off myself now there's a couple other
settings i would recommend changing and if you go into settings and go into your cellular settings
under your cellular data options it's on 5g auto which is typically pretty good overall however if
you're someone that doesn't have access to maybe wi-fi regularly i would customize this so either
leave it on auto if you don't have 5g in your area you'll save some battery by switching to lte
but if you go back and go to data mode allow more data on 5g this will allow you to prefer
5g over wi-fi and use it for software updates automatic icloud backups and higher quality media
so if you don't have access to wi-fi regularly flip this on now you can do updates over 5g so
it's great if you have that option available now another thing apple has added with ios 15 that i
would recommend turning on if you haven't already is under settings go down to music under music
there's new dolby atmos which was added which is basically spatial audio i leave it on automatic
since it's based on whether or not the music has capabilities of that and if you're using apple
music i would adjust the auto audio quality as well you have lossless audio now which will give
you the best quality but you want to make sure that you optimize this for your cellular streaming
because over cellular it uses a lot of data and sometimes even slows down or skips so i typically
leave it on high quality or lossless i would not use high res lossless when you're streaming over
over your internet connection if you're using wi-fi then it's fine but i typically don't
recommend leaving that on the highest quality over 5g or streaming for downloads i typically turn it
on to high res downloads since i want to use the best quality possible now you may not be able to
hear this unless you have proper headphones wired into it but it definitely makes a difference
in the quality overall and at least leave it on lossless so you get the best experience if you're
using a lot of data and you're worried about that make sure you flip that to high quality
instead now just a moment ago i mentioned icloud backup and that's another thing i would recommend
turning on it will back up everything on your phone and then if you lose your phone need to
get a new phone you can just seamlessly move over to the new one and it's very simple to do so if
you go into your account at the top of settings tap on icloud and under icloud you'll see icloud
backup now you may need to purchase more data i need to clear some out here you'll see i have
the two terabyte plan and i have all of my family on this and they're backing everything up so it's
great to have that we don't have to worry about it i would at least turn it on and consider maybe
getting the next tier up as it's about a dollar a month for the next level up of icloud storage
now you don't have to do this and you don't have to back up over cellular you can also use itunes
to backup as well but i would recommend doing that and turning on icloud photo library as well
if you want to back up your photos there are other options out there but this typically is a no worry
situation and it just you can let you know when to back up you can back up now this was backed
up at 3 14 a.m last night if you want to back up now you can and i know that all of my data
is here including all of my app settings and everything else i typically recommend turning
that on now another thing i would recommend trying is a focus mode prior to this with ios 14 we had
do not disturb but focus modes can be incredibly helpful based on where you're located and i have
an in-depth video about how to fully configure this but if you haven't tried this out you can
change it so that it configures automatically and changes your home screens so you can fully
customize your home screen with ios 15 just press and hold go into jiggle mode as they call it
tap here and you can move around your home screens and make them on or off based on your focus mode
and then you can also have certain people contact you during the focus mode that you're on
as well as notifications turned off and everything else they're super helpful and i highly recommend
trying them out if you haven't tried them out already and if you don't like them that's fine
but you can go in and configure them and pick one that works for you whether that be gaming
personal reading or more and i'll link the video that i talk about how to configure this in the
description below now the final thing i would recommend turning on if you haven't already
is if you have an apple watch and you want to unlock your phone maybe you're wearing a mask
and your face is obstructed you can have your watch signal to your iphone to unlock based off
of biometrics on your wrist and you will need a secured passcode on your apple watch for this to
work so first make sure you have a password turned on on the apple watch and then go over to your
settings under settings go down to face id and passcode once you have that turned on scroll down
and turn on unlock with apple watch once you have this setting turned on it will just work and then
you can obscure your face and it will unlock when it's doing that i used this quite a bit the other
day and it worked really well you'll feel a little haptic feedback on your wrist when it unlocks and
it works really really well so i highly recommend doing it just remember you will need a passcode
turned on on your watch for it to work though it won't work otherwise and so those are the first
things i would try with your new iphone 13 pro or 13 pro max as well as settings that i would
configure or try yourself let me know which one's your favorite new feature of the iphone 13 pro
and pro max and of course i'll link this wallpaper in the description this is the stock pro wallpaper
and if you don't have it on your current phone i'll leave it so you can check it out yourself
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