- By default,
the Safari settings on your iPhone
are designed to use a necessary cellular data.
- Right.
- Slow down your iPhone,
analog trackers to collect information about you.
- That's not good.
- Let's change some things.
First, we're gonna have to open up the Settings app,
scroll down, and tap on Safari.
First thing here is Preload Top Hit,
we're gonna turn that off.
- You're on Google, you search for something,
Safari is automatically going to load the first result
assuming that you're gonna go to that website?
Nah.
Turn that off.
- You gotta think too,
if it's a webpage that has a lot of video,
a lot of text, a lot of photos,
that's gonna use up a significant amount of cellular data,
and if you're in a low cellular data plan.
- Yep.
- You on web browsing,
you could burn through your data pretty quickly.
- And battery life. It's going to use extra battery.
- Yep. So if you scroll down,
next up, let's talk about Close Tabs.
By default, it's set to Manually.
And if you're a tab hoarder like me,
things can get out of control really quickly.
If you've got like hundreds of tabs open,
it can slow down your iPhone.
So what I like to do,
switch that to after one month,
if I don't go back to a webpage after one month,
it's a pretty safe bet I'm just never gonna get there.
- Right.
I'm on espn.com,
but I don't want ESPN to know
that I'm also looking for vacation spots in Tahini.
How do I turn that off?
- Well, let's go back to Settings, Safari,
right here, prevent cross site tracking,
turn that switch on.
Pretty simple.
It's not on by default, which I think is weird.
And if you go into Google Chrome settings,
it's actually the opposite,
it's like enable cross site tracking.
And I think Google might've done that intentionally.
- Google has their own tracking built into
the Chrome browser now,
so they don't need to have the setting.
So they're saying, "Oh, look how secure we are."
But it's all just built into the browser.
One below prevent cross-site tracking is hide IP address.
Got a few options here.
Trackers and websites trackers only or off.
- Right. The most secure obviously is trackers and websites.
But trackers is really the best option
because some websites do need to know your IP address.
A lot of times that your general location
is inferred from that.
So for instance, if you're on a website and this is off,
you're trying to place a bet on DraftKings,
you can't do it.
Come back here.
Tracker's only.
- Now, set back to Safari again,
and scroll down here to Settings for websites.
The first one to talk about is Camera.
Do you want to allow camera access to all websites
when you're using Safari by default?
- I think not.
- You do not.
So you can either set it to deny,
just no chance, or ask.
There are some websites
you want to have access to your camera from time to time.
They have to ask before.
- Sure. - They can do it.
- There are websites where you have to upload a picture
of your driver's license - Sure.
- For some sort of a personal confirmation thing.
I like ask on this one.
- Yep.
Tap back to safari.
Same thing for microphone.
Ask, deny, allow again.
I'm probably gonna choose to ask on this one.
- Right.
- And same thing for location.
Ask, deny, allow.
- Ask, deny, allow.
Who's "deny allow?" Ask her.
- Next, we'll talk about. - Ask her.
- The new feature, iCloud Private Relay.
- iCloud Private Relay (chuckles) is a very buggy,
very problematic new feature
that's supposed to make your iPhone more secure,
but just ends up breaking like 20% of the websites,
including Google half the time.
So turn it off.
- Now, let's go back to the main page of the Settings app.
Scroll all the way up
and tap on your name at the top of the screen,
then tap on iCloud,
iCloud Private Relay beta, tap on that.
So it is in beta mode.
That is one of the reasons why it's buggy right now
is also just buggy in general.
- That's their excuse for it.
- I've had a lot of issue, I've been surprised
by how many issues I've had on my iPhone,
browsing the web because of this feature.
- Right.
- Turn it off.
- Run for the hills with this feature.
But there is something you could do
to increase your privacy online
and speed up your web browsing,
and that is to download the CloudFlare Warp app,
or you could just set your DNS servers to CloudFlare.
Why don't we just set the DNS servers real quick?
- All right.
- We're gonna do it manually
because the app some people have had battery issues.
- Yeah. So back to the main page of the Settings app.
- Right. We're gonna go to Wifi
and then let's click the "I",
next to the name of your wifi network.
And then go down to DNS, Configure DNS,
and then change it to Manual,
and get rid of what's there.
Add Server,
1.1.1.1.
And then add another server,
Google's gonna be your backup server.
If the first one doesn't work for whatever reason,
it always will, but if it didn't,
you're gonna wanna have a backup server, 8.8.8.8.
- 8.8.8.8
- Right.
So CloudFlare is this worldwide network of servers.
They're very good at privacy.
We'll drop a link to how much better it is
as opposed to DNS,
which usually is hooked up through
your cable modem provider.
And they love to spy on you.
So, did you know that your spectrum for instance,
by default, can see every website that I go to?
- I did not.
- Yeah.
Well, they can't anymore because you just did that.
- That just happened!
- Let's tap Save, upper right hand corner of the screen.
Those are some Safari settings
you need to change immediately.
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