what's up guys my name is Brandon and by now you've probably already unboxed your brand new
2022 iPhone SE but now you might be going through the settings you know googling some things or just
kind of wondering what you should do next with your new phone and that's why i wanted to make
this video to show you the first 16 things to do on your new third generation iphone se so
this is going to include some settings to change some features to take advantage of and just some
overall tips and tricks that you might find interesting and if this video helps you out i
would appreciate if you gave it a thumbs up and also consider subscribing for more iphone tips
and tricks alright so the first thing you need to do is understand that you now have 5g this
is the first iphone se to get 5g so make sure you understand it in the best settings for 5g because
it is different from lte so the first thing you need to know is that we have sub 6 5g so it's
not the top tier 5g like we have on the iphone 13s they have a millimeter wave 5g we only have sub 6.
well that's still better than lte it's just not the best of the best when it comes to 5g
so that's one thing to understand also if you go into your settings and go to cellular and then go
to cellular data options and then voice and data you will see a new toggle in here for turning 5g
on or 5g auto i would highly recommend keeping that on 5g auto and the reason being is because
if you have 5g on all the time it's going to drain your battery it's only going to connect you
to 5g even if that signal is weak so i would highly recommend keeping this on 5g auto and
if we go back to data mode right here i would also recommend keeping this on standard or low
data mode as you could read down here what the allow more data on 5g option is but 99
of you will not need to enable that really at any time but i will say that low data mode is
very useful if you're running low on battery or if you're concerned about your battery life
i would consider putting your phone in low data mode you can see here it says it helps
reduce cellular data usage by pausing automatic updates and background tasks and then also in
this section is limit ip address tracking which i would also highly recommend although that has
nothing to do with 5g i just wanted to point that out to keep that enabled now the next thing you
guys need to do is understand the home button on the iphone se so some of you are going to come
from mechanical home buttons like the iphone 7 and earlier so if you had an iphone se
iphone 6s iphone 7 you guys had a mechanical home button well this is not a mechanical home button
it's actually software based so if you push down it feels like you're pushing a physical button but
you're not it's actually based on software just like with the iphone 8 had and if you go into your
settings and go to general and then to home button you have the option here to change the haptic and
you probably already did this in the setup process but if you wanted to go back and change it you
could go in here and change the home button haptic and basically how it feels when you press it i
think too the default is the best but you can play around with that here in settings but i did also
just want to point out that it's a haptic home button not a mechanical home button which means
that it technically cannot break because it's not mechanical no matter how many times you press it
it will not break now the next thing you guys need to do is set up your touch id and passcode if you
did not do so in the initial setup process there's also some things in here that i would recommend
changing so first off i would recommend adding at least two fingerprints right here so when you go
down to fingerprints add a second fingerprint either that's for another finger or your other
hand or if you have you know like a kid or a significant other that you want to allow into your
phone have them add their fingerprint right there as well also one thing that i change in here is
password autofill i turn that off so i don't have to use touch id every single time i want to enter
a password in safari that gets pretty annoying that is personal preference but i personally like
turning that one off and all the other ones i like keeping on also if we go down to the allow access
when locked section you may want to consider turning some of these off so you have more privacy
so people can't just go into your phone and search for things reply to messages from your lock screen
so this is where you change that right there the next thing you should do with your iphone se
is test out that camera and the brand new photographic styles so you'll see this pop up
the first time you open up the camera and i'll show you how to do that in a minute but the first
thing you guys should do is just test out this camera because it is definitely greatly improved
from the previous generation iphone se so that's thanks to the a15 bionic chip inside and that
gives you smart hdr4 and deep fusion which are both post image processing features that just
make your photos look so much better those are the features that the iphone 13 and 13 pro have
so try out that camera and you'll be surprised at how good photos turn out from such a tiny little
camera on the back of this phone and now let's talk about those photographic styles so if you
swipe up in the camera app you get these quick controls right there if you tap on this that will
take you to the photographic styles and what these are is they're essentially glorified instagram
filters just built in to your camera application but keep in mind once you take a photo with that
filter you cannot change it so if you go over here you have standard you have rich contrast you have
vibrant you have warm and you have cool now the cool thing about this is you can customize these
to your liking so if you don't like the preset you could change it to whatever you like and
then once you are set on one so let me go ahead to vibrate right here and customize it a little bit
there we go now it's set and if i take a picture it's going to take it with that filter on and you
cannot change it afterwards and if you take a look up in the top right it will indicate when you have
a photographic style enabled so if you tap on that it will show you which one you have right there
and you can also get to this in settings so if you go into your settings and then down to camera and
then just scroll down to photographic styles you could select them right here you also get
additional details in here as well i also wanted to mention this toggle right here that says show
detected text that is live text so you want to make sure that's turned on unless you find this
annoying which i don't i think is a really cool feature but if you hold your phone in front of
some text you will actually be able to copy that text right there you don't even need to take the
picture if you just go ahead over you see it says iphone just tap this little icon down there in the
bottom right and you will be able to copy select all or look up straight from here you don't even
need to take a photo of it of course you can if you want to but you don't need to and if i
were to take a photo of something and then go back into my photos application right here i could also
do the same thing i can copy the text from that photo which is really cool the next tip is to take
advantage of voice control for a fully hands-free experience so the iphone se is small so you know
you're probably going to be able to use this at all times but if you don't have a free hand
you can enable voice control and actually talk to your phone and tell it to do exactly what you
want so if you go into your settings here we're gonna go to our accessibility settings and then
if we scroll down to voice control right here you want to turn this on and it will have to download
some files and it will be turned on right after that and then if we go out of that settings page
you can see right here we will get some numbers on our screen and we could just basically talk
to our phone and tell it what to do so watch this press 20 press 16 scroll down press 11
scroll down go home
press three press two and just like that we were able to control our phone just from our voice and
nothing else so you could also enable this via siri so if i go ahead down here to siri turn
on voice control you can see it will turn it on just like that and speaking of siri you may want
to change the siri voice and we actually have a brand new one with ios 15.4 which actually comes
pre-installed with the iphone se so if you go into siri and search right here and then go to
siri voice you now have five different options to choose for your siri voice so the voice five is a
brand new one so you may wanna listen to that and change it if you would like to now the next thing
you guys should do after getting your new iphone se is to set up your display settings so if we go
into our settings here and go to accessibility and then to display and text size and then go all the
way down to the bottom we have things like auto brightness so i've had a lot of mixed opinions on
auto brightness over the past few years but it's gotten a lot better recently and something i use
every day on my main phone so that's something you might want to consider also if you cannot see as
well you could turn on bold text you could also turn on larger text right here and other things
like button shapes and on off labels and also reduce transparency now if we go back into our
settings and go to the display and brightness section we also have our light and dark mode
and i like turning this on automatic so it goes into dark mode when the sun sets i am recording
a video though so it looks better in light mode so we do also have true tone right here
you could turn that off or on so it just depends on your style i personally like turning it on
but if you turn it off you can see you get a much more blue screen so just depends on what you
prefer with the tone of your phone we also have night shift and auto lock i like turning this on
five minutes that is just when your phone locks after not touching it or interacting with it
if you turn it on never sometimes you could just forget or go to sleep with your phone on and it
will drain all your battery so that's why i like turning it on to five minutes also raised to wake
is a feature i just do not like i think it wastes a lot of battery and it's just unnecessary but if
you like that you can turn that on i personally keep that off we also have the display zoom right
here since we do have a small phone you may want to consider putting this on zoomed so you can
see things better since this is again such a small display and then also we do have our text size and
bold text right there as well you should also go ahead and customize your home screen and at your
control center so your home screen right here is very easy to customize now of course we can move
multiple icons at once if we just tap and hold on one and then use our other finger to tap the
other icons you can see you can move multiple applications at once very easily also now if
you tap and hold and if you're in the jiggle mode right here if you tap on the page dots down there
you could hide entire pages so if you just tap on the check mark there you can hide an entire
page you could also remove an entire page or you could just move them around so if you want this
to be your first page you can now move that and it will be your first page on your springboard
so you can do a lot of customization with your home screens on the iphone se here in ios 15.
if you tap on the little plus icon there up in the top right that is how you get to the widget so if
you tap on that it will take you to widgets right here i would recommend putting on some widgets
because they are awesome and they don't drain battery life like they did in the past you can go
ahead and add those here you usually get multiple different styles of the widget different you know
sizes as you can see here and then customizing the control center is also something i would highly
recommend doing so if you go into your settings here and then go down to control center and then
to show home controls i like turning that off on the iphone se i have a lot of homepod minis and
homepods in my house so i do love having that in my control center however the iphone se is a small
device and that is just taking up a ton of space i like the toggles a lot more than i like seeing
my home controls so that is something i would consider turning off depends on how much you use
your home controls but down here is where you add in your different control center toggles that you
would like i do like music recognition let me go ahead and add that one in there and i pretty much
have every one i want in there right now so this is uneven i don't like having to scroll
in my control center so i'm going to take one of these out one that i don't use that much i don't
use stopwatch really at all so there we go i can now screen record i can turn on my low power mode
i have my flashlight there all kinds of things i could do from the control center of course you
can always move these around if you want to as well and speaking of customizing the iphone se
also comes with exclusive wallpapers that are only available on the iphone se so if you go into your
settings here and if we go down to wallpaper and then choose new wallpaper and then to stills and
go all the way down to the bottom you can see we have three exclusive wallpapers again only found
on the new iphone se3 so we have this one right here which is meant for my color the star lights
you have this one right here and then you have this one right here which i believe this
one is meant for the midnight this one for the product red but you have all those that you could
choose and they look much better than the default wallpaper that comes with your sc and if you want
to take it one step further you could also set up an automation so your wallpaper changes every
single morning and if you want to find out how to do that i will leave that linked in the card up
above and also down in the description below the next thing you guys might want to do is add the
battery percentage to your status bar so i don't know how this is not enabled by default but it's
not but if you go to your settings here and then to battery you should turn on battery percentage
right here that is definitely something you should do right away because it's always good to see what
your battery life is and not have to guess also if you go down to battery health you want to make
sure your maximum capacity is at 100 if it's not i would take that back to the apple store asap and
get a new one also i would recommend keeping on optimized battery charging so it trickle charges
after 80 and if you find your battery life to be poor on the iphone se3 make sure to watch
my battery saving tips video that's going to go through a ton of different settings that you might
want to disable that could be eating away at your battery life on your se so if you want to watch
that video i will leave that linked down in the description below the next thing you guys need to
do is to customize your notifications and your notification settings so notifications are one
of the number one killers of battery life i see it all the time so many people get way too many
notifications they just simply don't need so if you go to your notifications here i would go ahead
in each application and select what you want if you want notifications from those applications or
not or an easier way to do this now in ios 15 is through a focus mode so if you go into focus right
here i'm currently in my recording a video focus mode so i will not get any type of notification
except for from certain people that you see right here so if you go down here to applications you
can add applications that you would like to see notifications from and anything that's not in here
you will not receive any notifications from so i would highly recommend going into your focus modes
right here and customizing walnut to your liking that way you could always turn it on or off from
the control center right here and you will not get as many notifications or if you don't do that at
all just go into your notification settings right here and just turn off notifications for the apps
that just simply do not need notifications like call of duty why would i need notifications
for a game and things like that you know what i mean just customize your notifications so you're
not getting a ton of them throughout the day the next thing you guys need to do after getting your
iphone se is to set up emergency sos and emergency contacts so if you go into your settings here
and then go down to emergency sos you will see that we now have an option to call withhold so
this is also new in ios 15.4 and it says if you press and hold the side button right here and
volume buttons together the emergency sos slider appears if you continue to hold them a countdown
begins and an alert sounds when the countdown ends iphone calls emergency services so if you want to
call emergency services quickly all you have to do is hold all three of these at the same time
and it will call of course you can also do the five presses right here so if you tap this five
times rapidly it will call but that is disabled by default so if you want to re-enable that if
that's the way you prefer you can turn that on and turn off call withhold i would also add at least
one emergency contact right here that way somebody else is notified if you are in danger or if you
got hurt or something like that now the next thing you need to know is that your iphone se is able to
be fast charged so you could charge up to 50 in 30 minutes but only if you're using a 20 watt adapter
so by now most of you should have a 20 watt adapter if not i would go out and buy one for 19
it's going to charge your phone much faster than one of those old blocks that you had back in the
day i'm sure you guys saw this one coming but the next thing you need to do is to consider
getting a case for your iphone se and a screen protector so one of the two if not both so these
are the apple silicone cases right here which are nice they don't offer the best drop protection
so you can look at alternatives for better drop protection but i would consider at least a screen
protector if you're not going to get a case at least get a screen protector although the back is
glass so you probably want a case as well i would just protect that investment with both again it
may not look the best but you're not really buying a phone for the look you're buying it more for
that functionality and protecting that investment especially if you don't have apple care and then
finally if you bought a 64 gigabyte iphone se you should buy more icloud storage and better off you
know if you're still within the return period of your iphone i would just return it and pay 50
additional dollars to double your storage to 128 but if you can't afford it i understand but you're
just going to need to buy more icloud storage and that's going to add up to 50 bucks in no time
so low storage is the number one cause of battery drain and slow performance so even if you got 128
i would recommend getting above the default icloud storage you need a lot more than five
gigabytes so if you go to your icloud and then go to manage storage right here and then go to change
storage plan this is where you'll be able to have a different downgrade or upgrade options so i have
the two terabyte plan which is overkill for 99 of people but i would recommend at least upgrading
from the free icloud storage that way you're able to actually store more things on the cloud and not
have them be on your device and bogging it down and draining your battery life so consider buying
more icloud storage it is definitely worth it oh and if you do buy more icloud storage make sure
you turn icloud backup on that way if something happens to your phone you're still able to retain
all of your information you will not lose it so there you have it guys those are the first 16
things that you should do after getting your brand new iphone se third generation of course there are
more out there and i may even make another video on tips and tricks for the iphone se
if you would like to see that let me know in a comment down below but nonetheless i hope this
video did help you out at least a little bit if it did i would really appreciate if you gave it
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a lot more iphone tips and tricks videos in the future and i do these type of videos every
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