(upbeat music)
- Hey, everybody.
David and David here from PayetteForward.com
and UpPhone.com.
And in this video, we're going to tell you
about some iOS 14 settings to turn off now.
- And we're going to start with a new one
that is actually in Safari.
So let's go to settings, and then Safari,
and we're going to turn off preload top hit.
- Safari, there it is.
- Right.
What precisely does this do, David?
- Well, preload top hit automatically loads the data
on the first page of a search.
So, you search for something, the number one article there
is just going to automatically load.
Can drain battery life, use some data,
and you might not even end up reading that article.
- Right.
- So, now that you've turned that off,
we're going to go to settings privacy.
There's a lot we need to turn off here.
- Right. - So, back to settings,
scroll up and tap on privacy.
- Yep, let's tap on location services.
Location services has to do with GPS,
letting your iPhone know
where it is in the physical universe.
So, just go through this list.
Pay close attention to anything that may say, "Always"
in this list.
- Yeah, I've got SEFCU.
I don't need my bank to know where I am all the time.
If I want to find an ATM, I'll just open it up,
and let it tell me then.
- Yeah, right.
Perfect
- While using the app.
- While using this app is a good choice.
- Yeah.
There's this new precise location feature,
allows the apps to use your specific locations.
The more targeted it gets,
the more battery it's going to use.
So, we recommend turning that switch off.
- That's well said.
- Yeah.
- Let's step back, and head all the way to the bottom,
to system services.
And we recommend turning off
pretty much everything in this list.
It's not going to negatively affect
your ability to use your iPhone.
For instance, yeah, Apple Pay, still going to work.
Cell networks, still going to work.
Compass, still going to work.
- Yep, we're going to leave on emergency calls and SOS.
Emergency SOS is a great feature.
Check out our other video on that.
Pretty much, you can just tap your side button five times,
slide it and call 911. - No matter what...
Or the local emergency number
in whatever country you are in.
Yes.
- Yeah, exposure notifications,
we're going to leave that on.
You probably want to know if you've been exposed to COVID.
- Right.
- Find my iPhone, that's a great feature,
we're going to leave that on.
But HomeKit, off.
Location based alerts.
- Location based alerts drain battery like crazy.
Just a tip there.
- There we go.
Here's a pop up, "Turning off location networking
and wireless may affect Bluetooth, WiFi,
or ultra wide band performance."
- It may not affect any of those things at all.
- I have had that off the entire time I've had iOS 14,
and that has not been the case.
- Maybe in some very strange circumstances.
- And one thing we should say real quick
is that if you've watched our previous videos on this,
when you update to iOS 14,
you may find that a lot of these settings
got turned back on.
- Yep, that'll happen.
- Setting timezone, off.
Share my location, off, I don't use that feature.
System customization, off.
WiFi calling off.
If WiFi calling stops working for some reason,
you can just come back and turn that back on,
but we haven't had any issues with that.
- Right.
It's off on our phones, and we can still use WiFi calling.
Significant locations.
- Tap on that.
- Turn it off.
- Keeps track of where you've been all the time.
- Yeah.
- And then comes up with a list of that.
David has nothing in his list because he leaves it off.
Saves your battery life, privacy concerns.
More of a battery life issue for us.
- Yep, just tap back, and then here,
underneath product improvement.
We believe that Apple can improve their products
on their own.
They're a great company.
They've shown that they can do it.
They don't need my help.
- They don't need iPhone analytics or popular near me.
Nah.
- Let's tap back.
- Yep, and back again to privacy.
- Back into privacy.
- Yeah, let's go to the bottom of the list.
And just tap on analytics and improvements.
And we're going to turn everything off in here, same deal.
Just more data that's being sent to Apple from your iPhone.
And from your watch perhaps.
- Yep. - Yep.
- Turn them all off. - Yeah.
- If you're using the beta like I am now,
maybe I'll turn that back on later to help Apple out there.
But that's okay, that's different.
- Well, he's not going to do that.
- In Apple advertising, tap on this.
I recommend turning off personalized ads.
I don't like when companies
collect a whole bunch of personal information about me,
and then hit me with targeted ads.
I'm going to go ahead and turn that off.
- Right.
But the thing to understand is that
this may or may not lead you to see fewer ads.
They're never going to say you're going to see fewer ads,
but the way it works,
I'm going to skip talking about how it all works.
The point is that companies will not bid for you
unless they know information about you.
If they don't have that information,
they may not bid for you.
So you may see fewer ads.
- There you go.
Good tip.
Back to privacy.
Another new iOS 14 thing is this research sensor
and usage data.
I'm going to tap on that.
And we're going to turn this switch off as well,
kind of like iPhone analytics,
just sending information to developers.
- Right.
And if you downloaded an app,
or have a device eventually that uses this feature,
that app or device will prompt you to come back here
and just turn it back on.
So any of these settings that we change,
this is not a forever thing.
You just come back, and turn them on
if we want to change our minds later on.
- Yeah, watch the video in reverse.
- Right, that would work.
- Tap back, and we're going to go back to settings.
Another thing to turn off is background app refresh
for apps that don't need it.
So, I'm going to tap on general.
And I'm going to tap on background app refresh.
- Background app refresh
allows certain apps, or the apps in this list
to download content in the background of your iPhone
even when you're not using them.
So, for most apps on this list, just turn it off.
I leave background app refresh on for messaging apps,
because I want those to notify me.
I leave it on for ESPN,
because I want to know when the sports teams get new scores.
Is that believable?
- That sounds good
- Does that sounds believable?
I don't actually have an app for ESPN,
but I wanted to sound relatable.
- I'm going to turn it off for some.
I already got it turned off for a whole bunch.
I'm going to turn it off for some more.
Just a lot of the stuff I don't need.
- Right.
Step back.
Back, back, back, Chris Berman.
- [Commentator] Back, back, back, back.
Way back.
- See, I know sports.
- [Commentator] Yeah.
- So, those are some iOS 14 settings to turn off now.
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