- iPadOS 15 is here.
There are some settings you need to turn off immediately.
Let's start with the one that Facebook absolutely hates.
- Let's open settings.
It's a little gear icon there in the bottom,
and I'm gonna scroll down to privacy,
and let's just tap on tracking.
- [Lynch] Tracking.
- [Payette] Boom.
- [Lynch] Allow apps to request to track.
Do you want apps like Facebook
tracking you across your iPad as you use it?
- All right, it's gonna track you.
It's gonna be like, oh, you're over here in this game.
Well, then he must like this game.
Let's give them ads about that.
Facebook hates this so much
that they took out full page ads in the New York Times
and a whole slew of other newspapers
saying that the setting was actually for small businesses
and the rest of us just didn't understand.
- So you got a couple options here.
You can turn it off for specific apps like Facebook,
or you can just turn off the switch entirely.
Ask apps to stop tracking.
- [Payette] Boom.
- [Lynch] Now no apps can even ask you
if you want to allow them to request to track.
It's- - Right.
- Just shut them all out. - You shut them out.
Facebook hates this,
but we like this.
- Facebook hates this.
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quick thumbs up.
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We like that.
- [Lynch] Let's tap back to privacy.
- [Payette] Okay.
- [Lynch] I must tap on location services.
- Location services is one of the most fun sections
and most important sections of the settings app
because of the effect it has on battery life.
So the thing to watch out for in this section
are apps with always next to them
because that means it can use your location all the time.
- [Lynch] Just go on here, Google Home.
- [Payette] Oh, geez.
Always?
I don't even use Google Home.
I'm just gonna change it to while using the app.
So if I ever do decide to use it,
then it can use my location for whatever reason.
Let's look for other ones.
Spectrum TV.
Always?
Nope.
How about while using the app?
- [Lynch] Yeah,
and the combination really to look out for here is
always plus precise location.
- Precise location uses more battery.
- [Lynch] Yep.
- And why does spectrum TV have know exactly...
Because they wanna know what zip code I'm in
to see if blacked out, whatever, who cares.
Turn it off.
- Yeah, so look out for those always apps,
go in, allow while using the app.
It's totally fine. - [Payette] Right.
Totally fine.
- [Lynch] So system services, let's tap on that next.
- [Payette] Whoa.
- [Lynch] Purple arrow, that's scary.
- [Payette] Yep.
- So here you have a whole bunch of system services.
We wanna turn off a lot of these.
- And it's scary because a purple arrow means
it's using your location right now.
- [Lynch] Yes, so we're gonna leave on
emergency calls and SOS, find my iPad.
I think that might be it.
- [Payette] Boom.
Location for networking and wireless
may affect Bluetooth and wifi performance.
Also, not going to
because a lot of these have to do with
the different configurations like for networking
or wifi networks in different countries.
So if you're not leaving the United States,
you don't need to have this on.
- [Lynch] Yeah, say they were setting time zone,
you just turn the switch on
when you travel to a different time zone,
your time zone will update,
turn the switch back off.
It doesn't need to be doing this all the time.
- [Payette] Right.
- [Lynch] Let's tap on significant locations next.
- [Payette] Oh, boy.
- Here's a list of all the places you go most often
(Payette laughs) with you iPad.
- Zero records.
I turned this on yesterday
so that we could show you how to turn it off.
- [Lynch] Yeah, let's tap that switch,
turn it off.
Battery drainer.
I mean, it's weird.
I don't know if it's actually a privacy issue for people,
but I don't like the list and-
- [Payette] Yeah.
- ... it's more of a battery drainer than a privacy thing.
- [Payette] Indeed.
- It used to be called frequent locations,
and Apple was like, wait a minute.
- [Payette] Yeah, people didn't like that idea.
- [Lynch] Under product improvement,
turn those right off.
- [Payette] Routing traffic status bar icon on the bottom,
bonus tip, turn it on.
I would anyway.
That gives you this little arrow
in the upper right-hand corner of the screen,
which tells you when your iPad is tracking your location.
If you see that arrow all the time,
it could be the reason why your iPad battery
is not lasting all that long.
- Yeah, if you like that bonus tip,
hit subscribe to a lot of great regular tips too
on this channel.
Let's go back to the main page of privacy.
- [Payette] Back.
- [Lynch] Tap analytics and improvements.
- [Payette] Boom. - Turn these off.
Apple can improve their own products.
This uses battery and a little bit cellular data too.
- [Payette] Sure does.
Are they paying you for this?
- Nope.
You're paying them.
- Exactly.
Top switch turns them all off.
- Turn them all off. - Bang.
It's the master switch. - Easy.
Let's head back to privacy again.
- [Payette] Boom.
- [Lynch] Let's tap on Apple advertising.
Personalized ads.
I like to turn this switch off.
- [Payette] Yeah, me too.
- People will say that, oh,
you're gonna see the same number of ads,
they're not gonna be as relevant to you.
- [Payette] Right. - Well,
if advertisers have less information about you,
you're a less valuable advertising target,
they might not even show you ads.
- Additionally,
it will still target you based on,
well, not you specifically,
but based on the context of what you're looking at.
So you might actually see more relevant ads.
For instance,
if you're reading an article about computer batteries,
you're not gonna see an ad for Ken Coon
because you were an Airbnb yesterday.
You're gonna see an ad for computer batteries
because that's what they have to go on,
the contextual data, not the personal data.
So turn it off.
You'll be fine.
- That's it for the privacy section,
but we have a lot of more tips to get through.
Let's tap on App Store, one below privacy.
- [Payette] Boom. App Store.
- [Lynch] In-app ratings and reviews.
- The most annoying thing.
- I downloaded this app,
and it immediately asked for a five star rating.
I haven't used the app.
- How am I supposed to know if-
- How am I supposed to know?
- Yeah, if it's good or not.
I just think it's annoying that these pop up
every once in a while.
But what's not annoying is subscribing to this channel.
- Yeah, tap that switch, turn it off.
Those pop-ups are gone.
- See you later, pop-ups.
I also like to turn off, bonus tip,
apps at the top under automatic downloads
because that would automatically
download the app on your iPad
if you download it on your iPhone.
For me, I like to keep them a little bit separate.
I used to have this on,
and then my iPad filled up with apps.
- Yeah, I have that same problem
when I first got my iPad,
I didn't turn off that switch,
it got messy,
and it still hasn't fully recovered from that.
Next, let's tap on home screen and dock on the left there.
- [Payette] Yeah.
- [Lynch] And we're going to turn off
show app library in doc if you want that.
iPadOS 15 introduced the app library to iPads,
by default, this switches on,
and in your doc on your iPad,
if we go back,
you'll see, there is our app library.
- [Payette] There it is.
- Yeah, I mean, I think it's really useful,
but I think some people just
don't wanna use the app library so.
- I prefer using spotlight,
which would just be swiping down from the middle,
and just typing in the app that I want
instead of using the app library,
which, of course, also gives you the ability to search,
but it's a couple extra taps.
- Yeah. - Up to you.
- Up to you.
And I think right now for people,
you can't really customize the app library,
so it's not particularly more useful than spotlight.
I think spotlight is faster and easier.
- I'm just, I'm an old-school guy.
Spotlight guy.
Give me a spotlight.
- Next, let's talk about push mail,
a gigantic battery drainer.
- Right.
Pushy mail,
tap on mail, tap on accounts,
then tap on fetch new data.
- [Lynch] Turn off that switch at the top of the screen.
- Right.
This is one of the things that we know for sure
is a giant battery drainer,
not just on experience when I was at the Apple store.
With push mail on your iPad
maintains a connection to your email server,
and it's saying, is there mail?
Is there mail? Is there mail? Is there mail?
So you do get instant updates if you're in a different app.
But if you don't need that,
you can save a lot of battery life
by switching from push to fetch,
and then have it fetch every 15 minutes.
- And we should say that if you open the mail app,
it's going to get that mail for you.
So it's not like- - [Payette] Instantly.
- It's like get to wait 15 minutes every single time
if you're waiting for an email,
just open the app and there you go, it loads.
- [Payette] There you go.
Most people don't notice the difference.
It's only if you're in a profession
or something where you need that notification immediately,
where you'd wanna have push on.
- Yeah, let's go to Safari in the settings app.
- All right.
So we're gonna scroll down to Safari.
- [Lynch] Tap on that.
So the first thing we're talking about is preload top hit.
This is more of an issue with iPhones
and cellular data plans
because it's loading that webpage,
might not need to,
use a little bit of data.
- [Payette] Also battery life though.
- Battery life too.
So if you turn that switch off,
it'll just load when you tap on the link
as you're gonna go Google search.
- Right, so you're on a Google search,
it thinks you're gonna go to the first result,
so it starts loading that page
that you haven't clicked on yet.
- [Lynch] Yeah. - [Payette] Yeah.
It can drain battery life,
so turn it off.
- Yep. - [Payette] Yep.
- And then scroll down.
Oh, we don't need to scroll down, it's right there.
Close tabs.
- [Payette] Close tabs.
- [Lynch] Let's tap on that.
So I am a person who leaves open my tabs all the time.
- [Payette] You're a tab hoarder.
- Tab hoarder.
And I just switch this to after one month,
otherwise, I can end up with hundreds of tabs.
This will automatically close your-
- Sometimes it's the same page.
- A lot of times it's the same page.
It's almost...
I got 25 ESPN MLB standings pages on my iPhone.
- It's important.
- So this will automatically close those tabs
after one month,
you're not going to miss them, I promise.
- Nope.
And you can always go back to espn.com.
- Next up,
it's a classic battery saving tip,
background app refresh.
Let's tap general.
- [Payette] Up to the general.
- [Lynch] Tap on background app refresh.
And here you go, a list of apps,
the ones where the switches are on,
these apps can download new content
in the background of your iPhone.
- [Payette] Right. - Battery issue.
- Now we've been telling people
to turn this off for 10 years.
We got a sentence,
turning off apps may help preserve battery life.
Thanks, Apple.
We've been...
We know.
- About darn time. - Yeah, so-
- So let's go through this list of apps.
Do you want Airbnb downloading new content
in the background of your-
- No.
How about it'll just download when I open the Airbnb app?
All right. How about chess?
Nope.
Books? Nope.
Apple Store. Nope.
- [Lynch] For most apps,
the answer is going to be no.
Obvious exception here is messaging apps.
You want those messages downloading in the background,
open the app, and they'll be ready to go.
- [Payette] Snapchat, I'm gonna leave that out.
- [Lynch] Snapchat. - I don't use Snapchat,
but if I did- - [Lynch] I mean, Slack.
- Yeah, Slack. Yes.
Slack is business app that we use internally.
- [Lynch] There you go. - Yeah.
You could try it too.
Not with us because it's private.
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