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- Hi guys, David and David here
from payitforward.com and upphone.com
and in this video we're going to talk about
seven iPhone settings you should turn off immediately.
- Right away.
- So, the first one is iPhone Analytics.
iPhone Analytics sends data from your iPhone to Apple,
which drains your battery
and presents a privacy issue
about how you use your phone.
It's so that they can improve their stuff
but that's their job,
in my opinion let them worry about that.
- So, how do we do it?
We open the settings app,
Scroll down to Privacy,
Scroll down to Analytics,
Turn off Share iPhone Analytics.
This will also turn off data collection on your Apple Watch.
Great!
- Bonus. - Bonus.
- And everything else in here, too, turn it off.
iCloud Analytics is the next thing.
We just want to turn that off as well.
Same thing as iPhone analytics, it's just with iCloud
Totally. next up significant locations.
Significant locations means that your iPhone keeps track
of everywhere you go,
which uses your GPS everywhere you go.
And then they can deliver relevant advertising to you.
And it's supposed to make your experience better.
But I think it's kind of creepy.
- (laughs)
It's really weird when you had it turned on for a long time
and then you go to significant locations and it's like
here are the 10 places you've been.
And I'm like, Oh my God.
- Yeah. It's just, it's just, yeah.
- It's like a horror movie.
So how do we turn off significant locations?
- A really boring horror movie,
- Really boring horror movie.
- Let's go back to privacy.
Tech privacy in the upper left
and scroll up to location services.
Now scroll all the way to the bottom to system services.
You know, they don't want you to turn it off
when they bury it in like five layers of menu.
So scroll to the significant locations,
tap on that - tap on that.
- And turn it off. - Turn it off.
- I turned it off for the sake of this video.
So I have no places here, but if I had left with us
if I had left it on for a week, it wouldn't have
like my home address and here dress the gym, a gym
and that's it.
- And that's it.
- It's all on the places I go.
So I'm going to turn that off.
There we go.
- Yeah.
- Significant locations is now off
- And you can clear the history there
in case you're freaking out.
- Yeah.
- Which is pretty cool.
- Yes.
- Yep. Next up is everything in location services,
system services, so let's just tap back.
So it's this part of settings app.
- Yep.
So we're going to turn off everything in here.
And this is my recommendation
except for emergency calls in SOS.
Find my iPhone and share my location.
If that's a feature that you use.
- Right, so I'll turn off compass calibration,
I'll turn off location based alerts.
I'll turn off setting time zone.
That's kind of important if you're traveling a lot.
Right.
What I do when I travel is I just like, turn it on and then
Fixes the time zone.
And then I turn it back off again.
You could tell that even right there
it was a purple arrow until a second ago
which meant that it was tracking your location to find
out what time zone you were in
which was using your battery.
Like we're not traveling through time zones right now.
So it does not need to be checking all the time.
- Share my location, turn that off or on?
- I like to leave it on.
In case you want to, you know.
- In wifi call we'll leave that on.
If wifi calling is something that you use. No?
- Just turn it off.
- Turn it off. All right.
- Here's the thing.
All these things make it seem like if you turn them off
then it's going to stop working
except it doesn't stop working.
If you turn it off,
a lot of this stuff is just data for Apple.
So I promise you that all
of these things are going to continue to work
just fine, if you turn them off.
It's just going to save your iPhone battery life.
- Great.
- Yep.
We've done that, we turned off these
switches and system services, what's next?
- The next feature is something we're going to turn on
on in order to turn it off.
All right, so let's tap back to head back
to the main location services menu,
back to privacy,
and then scroll to the bottom and tap advertising.
So limit ad tracking is off by default
but we need to turn it on in order to limit it.
- Yes - So let's turn that on.
And it's going to turn off the ad tracking.
- Yes.
- This really prevents advertisers from tracking you
as you use your iPhone, connected to the internet,
and they track you from site to site, to site
to site, and get more information about you.
- It's amazing how much information,
when we run ads we can target people down to like
you know, they like Shania Twain and
they're between 25 and 34.
- And they live in Omaha, Nebraska.
- Exactly. It's amazing.
You've got a sample of six people and...
- Yeah.
- Super targeted.
- Yeah. We don't really do a lot of that
but it's kind of creepy when you look
at all the things that you can target based
on they know everything about us.
So this will help them to not know as much at least.
Okay. So next let's tap privacy
in the upper left hand corner to go back,
tap settings again, and scroll down to
passwords and accounts.
So we're going to talk about fetch new data.
Right now, David has it set to 15 minutes,
which is good, let's just tap on that.
So David has push, turned off.
I recommend always turning off push.
So with push on your, iPhone is always
connected to your mail servers and iCloud.
And it's always asking, is there mail, is there mail,
is there mail, is there mail, every second.
Whereas fetch means that your iPhone
checks every 15 minutes or 30 minutes
or however often you decide,
whether there's new mail.
So unless you're in a situation where
you need to know exactly this second
when you got a new email,
you can save a lot of battery life
by turning off push, and changing your accounts
to fetch, which you can do individually.
So I turn off push, and I have fetch enabled
for my main mail account, just like David has.
And then you can set up the fetch settings
at the bottom, and I choose every 15 minutes.
David has his set up perfectly.
- And we should mention too that,
you can always open the mail app and see
if there's a new email, and it'll get the data for you.
- Exactly. Yeah.
Whenever you use the app,
it's going to check as well.
So most people won't ever notice a difference.
- Yeah. I haven't noticed a difference.
- Except for improved battery.
- Except for improved, yeah, exactly.
- Right, so our last setting that you should turn
off right away is, let's head back to accounts
and back to settings, and scroll up to general.
And then scroll down to background app refresh,
perfect.
Background app refresh allows
certain apps to download data in the background,
even when you're not using them.
So I recommend going through this list
and turning off background app refresh for apps
that don't need to download data when you're not using them.
So for instance, David has a lot of these.
Yeah. If you don't need the Amazon app to
update when you're not using it,
if you don't need Hulu to download new information.
- I sure don't.
- Right, you know.
- Nomo Robo, I don't know why that's installed.
- Right, Yup. So like an app, like news
maybe you want the news app
to be updating in the background.
So that, that, that might be understandable
but stuff like full, for example,
I have the ESPN app turned on background app refresh
because I want the score right now.
- Which is perfect.
- Yeah.
- Yep. That's exactly what you
should have it on for.
- Perfect.
- But other things, turn it off.
- Yes. So those are seven iPhone settings
you should turn off immediately.
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