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- Hi guys, David and David here
from PayetteForward.com and UpPhone.com,
and in this video we're gonna talk about iOS 13 settings
you need to turn off now.
- Mm-hm, Apple has a way of making sure
that the settings they want you to have on
get turned back on during the software update process,
so we figured we'd make this video
because iOS 13 came out recently.
And, it's a good idea to check this no matter when it is.
So the first tip we have is actually really cool,
and I was excited when I found it.
It is actually the ability to turn off
those annoying pop-ups that ask for reviews within apps.
I didn't know that existed.
Let's head to the Settings app,
and then head down to iTunes & App Store,
and then scroll down to In-App Ratings & Reviews.
- It's especially annoying too
when you just download an app for the first time,
and right away, first time you open it
they're asking for a five-star review,
and it's like I haven't used the app yet.
- Yeah.
- [David Lynch] So, just tap that switch, turn it off,
there you go, problem solved.
- That's awesome.
And I couldn't believe when I saw that,
that that's an option for us now.
So our next tip is to turn off iPhone,
iCloud, Health, analytics.
- Yeah, especially if you have
all these switches turned on too,
you're sending some health data
if you have it set up in Health app on your iPhone,
which is a little weird to me.
- Yeah.
And there've been - So--
- some privacy concerns recently
where Apple was caught in the news,
they were listening to people's Siri conversations, yeah.
Anyway, they're not always the most transparent
about how they use your data.
Tap Back to Settings, scroll up to Privacy,
and then scroll all the way down to Analytics,
and pretty much we're gonna turn off everything
in this list.
- Yeah, if you just tap Share iPhone & Watch Analytics,
that automatically turns off most of these switches,
and then just tap Share iCloud Analytics.
Turn that switch off, problem solved again.
Next we're gonna turn off any unnecessary location services.
- And, let's tap back to Privacy
and head up to Location Services.
Location Services is the GPS of your iPhone,
and we don't recommend turning it off entirely.
Instead, take a look through the list of your apps here,
and pay attention to any apps that say Always,
which means that that app would have, always have access
to your location. - Yeah, and I have one,
it's my SEFCU app, that's my credit union.
- [David Payette] Okay.
- So we don't want them to have access
to my location always.
They don't really need it, do they?
- I don't think they need it at all.
Right? - Yeah so I'll just tap Never,
top of the screen.
- Yeah, and if you're havin' battery problems,
or your iPhone's getting hot,
sometimes it could be just one app
that's not set up correctly.
If the developers don't know what they're doin'
and they save the wrong settings, then,
this could solve big problems on your iPhone.
Let's tap Back in the upper left-hand corner,
and after you go through this list,
just turn off the ones you don't need,
and scroll down to the bottom, and tap System Services,
which is our next tip.
We're gonna turn off everything in list that we can.
And so the only ones that we recommend leaving on
are Emergency Calls & SOS, Find My iPhone,
and Share My Location if you use it.
So let's go through that.
- [David Lynch] Start turnin' off these switches,
keep those two, off, off,
off, off. - Right, Compass
is still gonna work,
you're still gonna connect to cell networks.
You're still going to be able to do wi-fi calling
and wi-fi networking, and,
let's go into Significant Locations too.
This is the creepy part,
and David actually just recently cleared that out.
- Yeah, I had like five locations,
and it was a little weird.
- Yeah, just tracks you everywhere you go,
to be able to deliver appropriate content to you?
That's-- - So,
if you see your locations first, just tap Clear History,
I don't have any history here but if I tap it,
nothing's gonna happen,
and then just turn off - And let's turn it off.
- that switch at the top of the screen, Turn Off.
Apple doesn't need to know your significant locations.
- Yep, all the time.
And it's-- - It used to be called
Frequent Locations, - Right, it's kind of--
- which is weird, and then,
they kinda massaged it with Significant--
- Significant Locations, 'cause people were freakin' out
about Frequent locations,
so, let's tap Back and then scroll down
to the very bottom of this menu,
where we find more analytics that are hidden, so like,
just turn off all of these,
the iPhone Analytics, Popular Near Me.
- [David Lynch] These are strictly
for product improvement too,
we think Apple is smart enough
to make their own products better.
- Our next tip is Background App Refresh.
Background App Refresh allows certain apps on your iPhone
to download new content in the background,
when you're not using the apps.
So, you can imagine
that not every app needs to be updating itself all the time.
It can use your cellular data,
let's tap Back, the upper left-hand corner, back to,
that's Privacy, Settings, yep. - Privacy and back
to Settings, tap on General, tap on Background App Refresh.
First thing to keep an eye on here,
tap on Background App Refresh at the top of the screen,
and just select Wi-Fi instead of Wi-Fi & Cellular Data.
You don't wanna be using cellular data
to background app refresh your apps.
- Right.
- That was said poorly.
- That's, (laughs) that's good enough though.
Yeah 'cause, you don't want Background App Refresh
to always be running.
Let's tap Back in the upper left-hand corner,
and then just go through this list
and turn off the switches next to the apps
that don't need to be downloading new content all the time.
- [David Lynch] Yep, Apple Store, no,
Burger King, no, Books, no.
- [David Payette] Right.
Maybe you want ESPN to stay on,
because you always wanna be able to open the app
and have all the latest scores right there.
- Yeah, Voice Memos, no.
- Yeah, but, lot of 'em you can just turn off,
it's gonna save battery life and cellular data.
Our next tip is switching your mail from Push to Fetch.
With Push, your iPhone maintains a connection
to your email server all the time,
it's constantly checking to see if there's new mail,
uses data and it uses a lot of battery life.
With Fetch, you decide how often you want your iPhone
to check for new mail.
So let's tap Back in the upper left-hand corner,
back to Settings, and tap,
- [Both] Passwords & Accounts, yep.
- [David Payette] And then tap Fetch New Data
at the bottom where it says Push,
and turn off Push at the top.
- There we go, and then, just under Fetch,
how often do you want your mail to fetch?
We say 15 minutes is pretty good,
and you can always just check your mail
by opening the Mail app,
you don't have to wait the 15 minutes intervals
every single time.
- Yep.
And iCloud is a service that's built by Apple,
so I recommend just leaving that on, for Push.
I've never really had a problem with that,
but I have seen problems with other mail providers
like Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, where,
it's not as optimized for the iPhone,
and it destroys iPhone batteries.
- So the next thing to do is disable microphone,
camera access, for apps that don't really need it.
Again, you don't wanna these apps to be able to,
look through your photos, privacy issue there.
So I go back to Accounts, back to Settings,
and tap on Privacy.
And here, just tap the Photos app for example.
These are apps that might have access to your photo library.
They could access your photos and do,
what they want. - Yep, they could send them,
to a different server.
This is the result of clicking the Yes pop-up
when you open an app and it says,
this app wants access to your photos,
this app wants access to your camera, and,
you can go back and change those settings after the fact.
So we recommend doing that,
make sure there isn't anything weird in these lists,
where an app has access to your camera or your photos
that you don't want it to have access to.
- [David Lynch] Like for Instagram for example,
you're uploading photos,
it needs to have access to your photo library
if you wanna do that. - Makes sense, yep.
- Makes sense.
So go ahead and do the same thing for Microphone,
Speech Recognition, just make sure there're no weird apps
that have access to those things in your iPhone.
- Yeah that's interesting, microphone, speech recognition?
The wrong app could be sending your voice
to god knows where.
Next up we're gonna talk about third-party keyboards.
With iOS 13, Apple released the swipe keyboard,
so you can swipe now,
but you used to have to download third-party apps
to be able to do that.
So back in the day, I downloaded Gboard,
which was Google's keyboard,
because I wanted to be able to try the swiping thing
and then I decided I didn't wanna use it.
But third-party keyboards can have access
to everything you type on your iPhone,
so they present kind of a security risk.
Let's head to Settings in the upper left-hand corner,
and scroll up to General, and then scroll down to Keyboard,
and then Keyboards at the top, tap on that.
David has the English (US) keyboard and Emoji,
both of which are fine because they come from Apple,
and then Gboard.
- [David Lynch] Yep.
- [David Payette] And multiple languages.
- [David Lynch] Let's tap on Gboard.
So it has full access, right now.
- Just toggle that switch on and off, off and on.
And it says, "Full access allows the developer
"of this keyboard to transmit everything you type,"
credit card numbers, street addresses,
that's why it's important to make sure
that the keyboards that you're using
are developed by people you trust.
So, tap, let's just say Don't Allow.
- [David Lynch] All right.
- [David Payette] And then, let's go back to Keyboards
and remove Gboard.
Tap Edit in the upper right-hand corner,
and then just tap that minus circle, and tap Delete.
- Yep.
Google's pretty reputable, so is Bitmoji,
those are probably fine, but, other keyboards,
we'd be a little bit way of.
- Yep.
And, if they're not necessary,
sometimes you find yourself clicking through
that little globe icon,
on the keyboard, - Yeah.
- and you're cycling through all these keyboards
that you don't need,
this is a way to make your iPhone
just a little bit easier to use too.
- So those are iOS 13 settings to turn off immediately.
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