- Out of the box, the iPhone settings app
is filled with landmines
that can wreak havoc on iPhone battery life.
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Let's open the settings app.
First thing we're gonna talk about is push mail.
So we'll scroll down,
tap on mail,
then tap on accounts
and then tap fetch new data.
- Turn off push the tap.
With push on,
your iPhone maintains a connection to your email server
all the time.
And it's constantly asking that server,
is there mail?
Is there mail? Is there mail?
That's gonna drain your battery life.
- [Lynch] Yup - [Payette] Apple even
admits it now.
- [Lynch] They do. - [Payette] Yep.
And now under fetch,
just choose the interval you want your iPhone
to fetch that mail.
For me it's 30 minutes.
We should also say anytime we open the mail app,
it'll fetch your new emails.
So, you know, whatever.
- Unless you need to know that you got an email.
More often than every 15 minutes,
I'm a 15 minute guy.
Turn this off, you'll save a lot of battery life.
It's worth it.
- Yep, let's set back to the main page of settings.
Another battery tip that apple is finally admitting to,
background app refresh. - Another landmine.
- Literal landmine.
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- General,
background app refresh.
First thing to look at here top of the screen.
I like to switch this to wifi.
This isn't so much a battery tip,
Again it's kind of a battery tip
if you have poor cellular data connection.
- Right? - But it's more about
saving your cellular data.
- Right, even if you have an unlimited data plan,
which people will say,
'oh I have an unlimited data plan, what do I care?'
Well it's gonna drain your battery
and you have a high-speed data cap,
fortunately, so it could burn through that too.
- Next look through this list of apps.
Which apps do you want to go to download new content
in the background of your iPhone?
For most apps the answer is gonna be
no, I don't want it to download new content.
- Everytime you turn off a switch,
you're saving a little bit more battery life.
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Let's get back to general,
back to settings.
And we're gonna talk about location services.
This is the big minefield.
Like you're playing Minesweeper on expert level
or whatever it is and it's just a gigantic grid.
- Yup.
You can't right click on these to mark them.
- Privacy,
location services.
First thing to look at,
look at your list of apps.
Do you see any apps that say 'always'?
- Oh I see one.
- I see one.
I'll tap on DraftKings.
DraftKings is only legal in certain states like New York,
so they need my location
to know that I'm placing legal contest entries.
Do I need my location all the time though?
- Nope, only when - Just while using the app.
- Right, and did they need your precise location?
- No, they just needed to know that I'm in New York.
It's a very broad.
- Right?
Precise location,
this should be called like, battery drainer GPS
because the more precise your iPhone targets where you are,
the more battery it uses.
So turn that switch off while using the app.
DraftKings can complain if it wants to
but it's not going to.
Precise is like three feet.
- Right - Like, come on.
- Very spe... yeah, that's crazy.
- Yeah.
- Let's tap back upper left-hand corner of the screen.
Then scroll down here to system services.
We got a lot of switches on here,
we need to turn most of them off.
- Right, every time you turn one off,
feel a little bit better about your battery life.
- So emergency calls and SOS, find my iPhone,
leave those on.
And then for a 'share my location person',
leave that on too.
- Right.
We have a video about what, specifically these do.
You know, we go into an,
you don't have to worry about this stuff.
It's not gonna break your phone.
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Significant locations.
Says a list of all the places
you visit most often. - Right.
- Used to be called freedom locations.
And - Free, yup.
A little bit creepy.
Home, work, this is how it knows.
If you don't care that your iPhone knows where your home is
and your work is,
like, just turn this off.
It's really, it's a battery thing.
It's not a privacy thing.
People used to say like, ah safe.
It is safe, we're not saying it's not safe
but it will drain your battery.
- Let's tap back.
Down here, product improvement.
We can just go ahead and turn those switches off.
Apple can improve their own products.
They don't need my location,
- Yup. - And my battery life to do.
- And you know,
there is no amount of improving maps
that's gonna make it better.
- Just use Google maps.
- Use Google maps.
They should run another set.
- Well set Google maps as default.
Thanks for watching this video.
We hope we helped you deactivate those land mines
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