- David and David here.
Out of the box, your iPhone comes
with a bunch of pernicious settings turned on,
that most of all will drain your I-phones battery life.
If you liked our video,
7 iPhone Settings, You Need to Turn Off Now,
you'll like this one because we got
a few new ones to talk about.
- Right, things have changed.
Especially since the last video,
we realized that some of the settings,
even if they're the same settings
have moved to different places.
- Yeah. - Lets dive in.
- [David On Right] I'll open the settings app in my iPhone.
Scroll down and we're going to start in privacy.
Tap privacy.
At the top of the screen, tap location services
and scroll down to system services.
There's a purple arrow right there.
- [David On Left] What does that mean?
- Bad sign already?
It means that an app or service
is currently used your location
or has very recently used or location.
So I'm gonna tap on system services.
We've got a lot of switches turned on by default
and we wanna turn off most them.
- We sure do.
Apple pay merchant identification: Off.
Sell network search: Off.
Is this still gonna search for cell networks
and connect to them?
Yes. - Yes.
- Most of these settings like setting time zone,
cell network search, networking and wireless.
All of these things have to do with adjusting the way
that your iPhones and tennis work
when you go to other countries.
So unless you're going to other countries,
turn these things off.
- [David On Right] So the ones we're actually gonna
recommend leaving on.
Let's turn off that, turn off that,
leave on emergency calls and SOS.
Leave on, find my iPhone Home Kit?
(upbeat music)
Turn it off.
Location based alerts, suggestions,
motion calibration, and distance.
Turn that off.
Networking and wireless: Turn that off.
- This talks about ultra wide band.
Apple recently released for the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 12,
a U1 chip.
And that is GPS at the scale of your living room.
Their words, not ours.
Meaning, that if I want to airdrop to somebody,
I can point my phone at David's phone.
And then David will be the first person that appears
on that list.
If you're in a busy office,
I can see how that would be helpful
because you might get airdrop suggestions
with a whole bunch of people.
But if you're not, turn this off and save battery life.
- I'll tap turn off.
Setting times zone, let office share my location?
- I don't use it. - Okay.
System customization off and wifi, calling.
Turn that off.
Wifi calling will still work.
- You gotta ask yourself:
Are you traveling to a different country
where wifi calling is calibrated differently?
That's the only reason to leave these things on.
It has nothing to do with the
actual wifi calling where you live.
- Next, let's talk about significant locations.
Go ahead and tap on that.
You'll see a list of places you visit often that Apple saves
using your location, draining battery life.
A little bit weird, I get a little weirded out
when I see this.
I didn't even remember going to Queensbury, New York.
But then I looked up on the map
and I was like, "Oh yeah, it was there."
It was kind of weird that Apple remembers And I don't.
- Yeah.
- So-- - Well, nobody remembers
if they go to Queensbury New York, David.
- So just tap the switch at the top of the screen
to turn off significant locations.
And tap, turn off.
You wanna clear this history list?
Just tap clear history here on the screen.
- Right.
- Next let's tap back in the upper left hand corner
of the screen and scroll down here
to product improvement.
Go ahead and turn all these off.
- Only if they're paying you.
If Apple's paying you to help improve their products,
leave it on.
But for me, they can improve their own gosh darn traffic.
- Yeah, we are not fortunate enough
to be being paid by Apple, - Right?
- And, but we'd love to be, you know.
Hey, I'll turn these on.
Improve maps.
There's no way that my iPhone's location
is gonna do enough to make Apple Maps
as good as Google Maps.
I'm sorry, it's just not gonna work--
- Well, maybe you should turn it on
and help them improve their maps.
- Maybe I'm the reason why their maps aren't as good.
I don't think so. - Perhaps.
In the upper left hand corner of the screen
we'll just tab back.
And here are all the main page of location services.
The next thing you wanna do is
look through your list of apps,
and look specifically for the word always.
This means an app always has access to your location
and it can drain your battery really fast.
For example, I turned on DraftKings' location,
setting up for a video.
I drove back up I87.
And during that drive DraftKings
used my location 32 times.
- Right, that's incredible.
They're just always checking to see where you are.
- Not necessarily.
I'm not entering contests while I'm driving in my car.
- That's good.
- So I'll tap on DraftKings, for example.
So they only need your location while.
you're actually using the app and entering contests.
I'm gonna switch that too while using the app.
- Yeah, pretty much everything
from always switched it to well using the app.
You're going to save battery life.
- Yeah, I'll tap back one more time.
One other example I wanna point out is SEFCU.
SEFCU always has access to my location.
Not necessarily, but you want to be wary
of maybe apps that aren't as well developed
accessing your location. - Right, and you may not know
what SEFCU is, weirdo.
SEFCU is David's bank. - Yes.
- Local credit union.
Why would they always need access to David's location?
- To how nearby ATM's.
- I guess always, but that would be while using the app.
I have no idea why they always need his location.
I think that, as David said,
it was just a development team
that didn't know what they were doing.
- So I'm gonna tap never here.
They don't need my location.
- Let's get into something kind of controversial here,
personalized ads.
And it's been amazing, the amount of pushback
we've gotten from people who want to see ads
(crowd cheering)
that are tailored to them.
Let's dive in here. - Yeah, so I'll tap back
upper left-hand corner of the screen.
Tap back to privacy, scroll down here to Apple Advertising.
- Personalized ads.
If you wanna see information about yourself,
you can tap on view ad targeting information.
But in my experience,
there really isn't a lot of stuff in there, if anything.
But they are still targeting me.
Personalized ads.
People think, "Okay, if I turn this off,
I'm gonna see all these really low quality crappy ads."
But that's not necessarily true,
because just because they can't tell that you went
to the Airbnb App,
and now you're playing a game
and you see an advertisement for the same
exact place or Amazon, the same products.
Doesn't mean that you're not gonna get
relevant ads at all.
It just means that they're gonna use
other targeting criteria.
Life if you're on an iPhone help website,
you're gonna see ads about iPhone batteries.
Not about Cancun, if you wanted to go to Cancun.
So a lot of the time,
I like to just turn this off because I still see ads,
but they're almost more relevant to what I'm looking at.
And then Airbnb, isn't like trying to target me.
'Cause a lot of the times I go on that website
and I just wanna go someplace,
but I don't really wanna spend money.
- Also, if advertisers have less information about you,
then you become less valuable to them,
they may actually target you less.
- Exactly.
You may see fewer ads.
But they won't tell you that.
- Long story short, turn off personalized ads.
And while we expect to get
a lot of comments about that, that's fine.
- Calm down! (crowd chattering)
- Yeah well, I don't wanna see crappy ads.
This is not what's gonna happen.
- Next, let's tap back to privacy
in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
One above Apple Advertising is analytics and improvements.
- It's amazing how much data is constantly being sent from
your iPhone to Apple and other app developers.
And what's funny is that they keep
building in new switches here
when they get caught doing something they shouldn't.
Like the improved Siri and Dictation thing.
They were just sending people's conversations
to their servers for analysis.
- Yeah. - But now you can
opt out of that.
So every time you do this,
you just remember like improve Siri and Dictation.
The only way that's gonna happen is if
they send audio files from your phone to their servers.
That's gonna use battery life.
- So I'll just tap the switch.
Also, turns off data collection on your Apple Watch.
Two for one tip there.
I'm just gonna start turning off these switches.
There we go.
The last thing in privacy:
Let's tap back in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
Scroll all the way up and tap on tracking.
This is the allow apps to request a track,
allows apps to apps to ask to track your activity
across other company's apps and websites.
That's a bit of a mouthful.
- You know who doesn't like this setting, David?
- Facebook.
- Facebook does not like the setting
because whenever you open Facebook App
for the first time after you update your iPhone,
it's gonna say, "Hey, Facebook would like
to track you everywhere you go."
And a bunch of other scary stuff.
And then you have to opt into it now.
It's not just automatically turned on for Facebook.
- Nobody's gonna say yes to that.
Nobody's gonna say yes to that.
Yeah, and Facebook would like to see everything
about what you're doing online,
so that they can sell you as a product to their advertisers.
When you see ads,
it is Facebook selling you, selling traffic to advertisers.
If you're not gettin' a cut of that, I would turn this off.
- All right, well I'm gonna go ahead and turn that off.
That's it for the privacy section of the settings app.
- But wait, there's more!
- The next thing we're gonna talk
about is in-app ratings and reviews.
I'm sure most people watching this video
have downloaded an app for the first time,
opened it for the first time.
And the first thing they see: Can you write us a review?
How many stars did you give us?
And it's like, "I don't know,
I haven't used the app before."
- I know, yeah, how am I supposed to do this?
Also, have you ever done it?
I've done it like twice.
I usually say no. - I say no as well.
I think most people do.
- Let's head back to privacy
in the upper left-hand corner of the screen,
back to settings.
One below privacy, you see App Store.
Tap on that and look for in-app ratings and reviews.
Help developers and other users know what you think
by letting apps, ask for product feedback.
- Right, turn that switch right off.
You can always go and leave a review for an app
if you feel so inclined,
but now it's on your terms.
You're not gonna see that annoying little pop-up.
I like to turn this off.
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- Yes, next thing we're talking about is push mail.
I'm gonna tab back to settings.
Upper left hand corner of the screen, and scroll down here,
and tap on mail.
Then tap accounts, and then tap fetch new data.
Right now, I have mail set to push.
- Right, one of the biggest battery drainers
on iPhone was push on.
Your iPhone is constantly asking:
"Is their mail, is their mail,
is their mail," to the mail server.
But with push mail off,
your iPhone will choose how often
to fetch the mail from the server.
So for most people, every 15 minutes
to check or whenever they open the Mail App
is more than often enough.
- Yeah, so I'll turn off the switch next to push
at the top of the screen.
And then I'll set every 30 minutes.
I don't do a lot of email on my iPhone anyway.
The next thing we wanna talk
about is background app refresh.
This lets apps download new content
in the background of your iPhone.
So the next time you open your app,
it's a bunch of fresh content in front of you.
- Right, do you open all of your apps every single day?
I certainly don't.
Do I want all of those apps that I never opened,
always downloading content in the background,
which is gonna drain my battery
and also use cellular data?
I don't think so.
So you might wanna have this on for one or two apps.
Let's choose.
- Yep, I'll tap back to accounts.
Upper left hand corner of the screen.
Back to mail, back to the main page of the settings app.
We're gonna scroll up and tap general.
Then we're going to tab background app refresh.
First thing to do, tap one background app fresh
at the top of the screen.
Do you want cellular data to be use by apps
to download new content in the background of your iPhone?
Probably not. - Nope.
- We recommended choosing wifi.
I'll tap back.
And here's a list of all your apps that can download
new content in the background of your iPhone?
I think by default it is all of them.
- Yeah, it is all of them.
For instance, Note: Notes might be a good one
because you want notes to be able
to download the notes so that when you open the Notes App,
it's not gonna like have to load a list of a hundred
if you haven't opened it in a while.
But a lot of things like Facebook could be downloading all
sorts of stuff in the background.
Instagram images, anything like that,
you might wanna just turn off.
Anything that's a messenger type of an app,
you might wanna leave on if that's a concern for you.
- Yeah, so let's go through this list
and you know, find what works for you.
- All right.
You'll say battery life, you'll save cellular data.
The cost of this is maybe having to wait a second or two
when you open the app for it to download.
I turn them off, it's gonna totally.
Turn most of 'em off.
- And those are some iPhone settings you should turn off.
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