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- Hi guys, David and David here
from payetteforward.com and upphone.com,
and in this video we're going to tell you
about 10 iPhone settings
you should turn on immediately.
- Right we just released a video a couple
of weeks ago about the seven iPhone settings
you should turn off immediately.
It's been a huge hit,
so we decided to make the inverse video.
- Yes.
- So let's dive in.
There's some really great tips we're going to show you.
- First thing we're gonna do
is customize your control center.
This is a relatively new feature
where Apple has let you really make it your own,
add a bunch of cool stuff to control center
that you weren't able to do previously.
- Yeah. And it's actually useful.
So you can access control center by swiping down
from the upper right-hand corner of the screen
on an iPhone 10 and later,
or swiping up from the bottom
of the screen on an iPhone eight or earlier.
- [David] Yes.
- [David] These are the icons
that you see in control center,
but you can customize them.
So just tap on settings and then go to control center.
It's under general.
And then tap customize controls,
and you'll see that there are a whole bunch of interesting
and useful controls - [David] Absolutely.
- [David] like alarm, you just tap on that.
Do not disturb while driving is cool.
You can check out the home.
We've got some low power mode.
People love to turn that on.
- I have low power mode of my control center.
Sometimes it's like, let's just turn that on real quick.
- Right. You used to have to go
into settings to battery and do it.
Now you can just swipe down
from the upper right-hand corner of the screen,
tap that battery icon, low power mode, and do that.
- So the next thing you'll want to turn on is magnifier.
- Yup, magnifier is kind of like a hidden app,
and it's really useful.
I see people all the time in restaurants
or in other low-light environments,
and they're opening the photos app
and turning on the flashlight
and trying to read like a menu,
but there's actually a little mini app called magnifier
that's hidden in settings that works perfectly
for that specific task. - Yep.
- [David] So to turn that on,
Oh, we need to go to accessibility.
- [ David] Yes. So open the settings app
and tap accessibility.
We're running the iOS 13 beta,
and it moved a little bit.
Now it's just settings, accessibility.
It used to be settings, general, accessibility.
So if you still have iOS 12,
settings, general, accessibility.
If you're on iOS 13, settings, accessibility.
- [David] Yup. - [David] Easy.
- [David] Let's tap accessibility,
and then we'll tap on magnifier,
and then I'm going to tap the switch and the right-hand side
of magnifier to turn that on and tap the switch to the right
of auto adjust exposure, which optimizes the way it looks.
So let's check it out.
The way you turn on magnifier
from within any app is simply
to triple click the side button.
One, two, three, which is the power button.
Okay. So now I see a nice little zoomed in view.
Here I have a tax letter from New York state
that we can use to demo.
And on the bottom,
I can turn on the flashlight
by tapping the little flashlight button
in the bottom left hand corner,
and I can also zoom in here.
And so if I'm trying to like read what it says
on this page, I can, I can do that.
It's very cool.
You could do color filters, all sorts of stuff.
And you can take little pictures of it
just like the camera by tapping there at the bottom.
- Great feature if you're in a restaurant with low lighting,
for sure.
- Yeah, or have trouble reading anything small text.
- Yes.
- Get rid of this.
- So our next tip is to turn on prevent cross-site tracking.
This'll just limit advertisers ability to
track you as you cross multiple websites in web browser.
- Yep.
- So what you want to do is open the settings app,
go back here to the main settings page.
- [David] Yep.
- [David] Scroll down to Safari.
- [David] Right.
- [David] And then turn on the switch next to
prevent cross-site tracking.
That's already on, so well done.
- [David] Right, we turned it on.
Cross-site tracking, as David said,
is an interesting feature.
It's one of those things where I look for a product
from Amazon and then all of a sudden I'm on this other
website and I see that same product.
- Yeah.
- I don't necessarily want to be tracked everywhere I go
on the internet or want that advertising,
so this is one of the things that prevents that.
- [David] Yes.
Similar to prevent cross-site tracking is limit ad tracking.
Again, we're just limiting the ability of advertisers to
track you online.
So we'll go back to the main page in the settings app,
and tap on privacy.
- [David] Alright. Scroll up to privacy. Yep.
- [David] And then we're going to scroll down
and tap advertising.
- [David] Okay.
- [David] And turn on that switch next to limit ad tracking.
- [David] Who needs it?
- Not me.
- Yeah. We're still, you still see ads.
Unfortunately it's not like an ad block,
but at least they're not tracking you specifically.
- Yes.
So the next thing to turn on is reduce white point,
and I know this is something that you turn on,
especially when you're in bed at night.
- So I actually just leave it on all the time,
but I'm going to just tap back to the main settings menu.
This is also in accessibility,
so if you're running iOS 12, it's in general, accessibility.
For us, we're just going to tap into accessibility.
And then we're going to come down to display and text size.
And then scroll down to reduce white point and turn that on.
And then I like to put this right there in the middle
of that 50%, the iPhone's display is extremely bright.
The reason I started to use this was that I would be
in bed at night and reading something or surfing the web,
and the screen would be too bright for me
even if the brightness was all the way down.
But by turning on reduce white point,
you can actually, I mean you can make it real dark,
but even if you just pick 50% and just leave it there,
you'll never notice that the screen isn't as bright
as it could be.
Secondary benefit.
You're going to save battery life
because your screen is just a little bit darker.
It just makes the white colors, the bright colors,
a little bit darker.
- So the next thing you'll want to turn on is wifi calling,
if your cell phone plan includes wifi calling.
And if your plan doesn't include wifi calling,
quick plug, up phone.com, switch to a plan that has it.
But wifi calling is great.
If you don't have great cell service,
you can make a phone call using a wifi network.
- Yes.
Super helpful if you're in a rural area or on vacation
where you have wifi access but no cell service,
works perfectly, texting, calling.
I could have used this when I lived in Hawaii.
- Yeah.
So back to the main page in settings app.
- [David] Back and back to settings.
- [David] And then you'll go to cellular.
- [David] Towards the top here.
Let's pick cellular.
And there's wifi calling here.
You just tap the switch and then tap the switch next
to wifi calling on this iPhone to turn that on.
There is a set up process where it has you enter
an emergency address,
so they know where to send people in case they can't use GPS
on your phone if you're that far out of range.
But that just points to the fact
that this a really good feature to have turned on.
- So the next setting to turn on is calls on other devices.
- [David] Let's step back to cellular
in the upper left hand corner
of the screen and tap on calls on other devices.
This is just a really cool feature that lets
your other devices like an iPad or a Mac ring
whenever you get a phone call on your iPhone,
which is awesome. - [David] Yep.
- As long as they're nearby and on wifi.
So your Mac isn't going to ring 400 miles away.
So it's pretty, it's smart like that.
- Yeah.
- [David] So I, and then you have to enable
which ones you want.
And I have a few different Macs and iPhones
that I like to get my phone calls on.
- [David] Sure.
- [David] Yep. So let's tap back to cellular.
- [David] There you go.
- [David] What's next?
- So the next thing to do is turn on iMessage.
- And a lot of people were already going to have this on,
but if you don't turn it on.
Let's step back to cellular in the upper left-hand corner
of the screen, back to settings, scroll down to messages.
- [David] There it is.
- [David] Oh, there it is.
And then make sure that iMessage is turned on.
And while you're in this menu,
there's another setting that you should turn on.
And that is text message forwarding,
which is kind of like calls on other devices.
So I can get regular old text messages
on my iPhone, iPad, Mac, everything else.
And the last thing I want to turn on
in the messages section of the settings app,
or just make sure that it's on,
is if you scroll down here send as SMS,
make sure that that's on.
It'll send a regular text message
when iMessage is unavailable.
Most people have unlimited texting.
This is a great idea to have it on,
and also just make sure that MMS and group messaging are on.
Sometimes people get confused
why their photos aren't going through.
If you have an unlimited messages plan,
make sure that all these are turned on.
- Absolutely. So the final tip we have
for you is make sure that do not disturb
while driving is set to automatically.
- [David] Let's step back to settings,
and then come up here to do not disturb,
and then come on down to do not disturb while driving,
activate, tap on activate,
and then tap automatically at the top.
- Yeah. This way you just don't forget to turn it on,
and then you get distracted by your phone
'cause it's not on do not disturb.
- [David] After you changed this to automatically,
make sure to check out our video called
seven iPhone settings that will literally save your life.
This is one of them.
And there are a whole bunch of other ones too
that can actually save your life in an emergency.
- Yeah, the one minor nuisance here,
it's not a huge deal,
is that when you go to the gym,
sometimes that you'll be on the bike or the elliptical,
and it'll think you're in a car driving
because you're moving a lot.
And your phone'll say, are you driving right now?
- Yeah.
- And I'll get stuck in do not disturb while driving.
Not a big deal.
- Right.
You can always turn it off.
- You can always turn it off when you're at the gym
and then turn it back on when you're in the car.
- Right. And you can use control center
in the upper right hand corner of the screen,
and just tap that little moon there to turn off
do not disturb.
Just like we talked about it sort of brings this video
full circle.
- Full circle.
- Yep.
- So those are 10 iPhone settings
you should turn on immediately.
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