(upbeat electronic keyboard music) - Hey everybody. David and David here
from PayetteForward.com and UpPhone.com, and in this video we're
going to tell you about seven Mac settings you
should turn off immediately. Before we dive in, we just wanna say that
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that you need to turn off. - So on your Mac, we're going to go up to the Apple menu in the upper left-hand
corner of the screen, and just tap System Preferences. - So the first thing we're gonna turn off are unnecessary login items
that might slow your Mac down. - These are background programs that run, and a lot of the times they get installed when you install new software. And a lot of them will
just slow things down, because you never use them, and you might not even
know that they're running. So to do that, tap Users & Groups in System Preferences, and then just tap Login Items. And on my computer I can see
that I have six of these. So Backup and Sync from Google, I wanna hide that one but
I do want it to be there. aText, Spectacle, both
great pieces of software. But this ZoomOpener, it's a video chat app, but I don't use Zoom
anymore so what I can do, is just tap this minus sign here, and it's gone. And so now the ZoomOpener
is never gonna be running in the background of my Mac. I recommend hitting the
minus button next to any of the applications you see in this list that you don't recognize. The next time you reboot your Mac, it might be a little bit faster. - So our next tip is to
disable any unnecessary apps that are tracking your
location wherever you go. - So let's go back to the main
System Preferences window, and tap Security & Privacy. Just like the GPS
functionality on your iPhone, uses a lot of battery life. Same deal with your Mac. It might not have a GPS chip built in, but if it's constantly asking where am I, where am I, where am I? It's gonna drain your battery faster, and a lot of apps don't need to know where you are all the time. So this is one of those settings, make sure that you have Privacy selected over here on the right, where you have to click
the lock to get access. If you don't have a Mac with Touch ID, you have to enter your password here, and this is your Mac
password which may or not be the same as your Apple ID. I'm just gonna use the Touch ID here. And I do want to leave Enable
Location Services turned on, because Location Services
are great for a lot of apps. But this KisMac app does
not need to know where I am. And any of these where you
see an arrow next to them, means that it has used your
location and also your battery within the last 24 hours. So I don't need Siri to know where I am. I'll leave the Weather app on, because sometimes I like
to check the weather and it's cool if it knows where I am. Maps, I don't use Mac maps. So you get the idea, just go through this
list and uncheck the ones that don't need to have access to your location all the time. - Yep. The next thing we're gonna do is turn off those unnecessary system
services that are always running and this can drain your battery life too. - Yeah, these are the insidious ones. So you have to go all the way
to the bottom of this menu, and then click Details on the right. And here we have
Location-Based Suggestions, Time Zone & System Customization. If you're traveling
between time zones a lot, you might wanna leave this on. But what I do is, I just leave this off and then
when I go to a new time zone I check the box, it changes the time, then I uncheck the box. It doesn't need to always be checking what time zone I'm in. Significant Locations, kinda creepy, tracks
you everywhere you go. Location-Based Apple Ads? No thanks. Find My Mac is the only
one I'm gonna leave on, because I wanna be able to
find my Mac if it gets lost. And I'll just uncheck
HomeKit and Wi-Fi Networking. Wi-Fi Networking is still gonna work, HomeKit still gonna work, except for the location tracking piece. - So next we're gonna
turn off Mac Analytics. Just like on your iPhone, Apple gathers data about
how you use your iPhone. And they use that to
improve their products. We still believe that Apple can improve their own products on their own. - Yep. - We're not gonna send
them our analytics data, it can drain your battery. - So on the left-hand side of this window, just scroll down until you find Analytics. Click on that, and then uncheck Share Mac Analytics and that will automatically uncheck Share with App Developers, and also Share iCloud Analytics. There you go. - Yeah! - We're gonna save some battery life. So our next setting you
actually need to turn this on, to turn it off. We're gonna turn on Limit Ad Tracking, obviously we don't want
advertisers to track us everywhere we go, collect all that data about us. We're just gonna turn
Limit Ad Tracking on. - Boom. Turned on. And then you can also click
Reset Advertising Identifier. Are you sure you want to reset the ident- As if this is a bad thing? (sarcastically) Now the ads that you'll see in Apple apps, and also on the internet, won't be as targeted to you specifically. The less data they have on us, the better. Trust me, they still have more
than enough data on us, to send us ads even with this turned on. - Yep. So our next tip is to turn
off unnecessary notifications. - Notifications are
those things that appear in the upper right-hand corner
of your Mac all the time. They can be kind of annoying, and they also can drain your
battery life a little bit. So let's go back to the main
System Preferences window, and tap Notifications
over here on the right. Just take a look through
this list and ask yourself, do I really wanna get
these pop-up notifications from this app? So the Books app, I don't need notifications from. Calendar is a yes for me, because I wanna know if I have an event. FaceTime is a yes, et
cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Go through the list, if you don't recognize an app, turn it off. - Yep. So our next tip now that we've turned off
unnecessary notifications, we're gonna turn off
unnecessary extensions. - I'm gonna tap back to the
main System Preferences window, and head to Extensions. Extensions are little pieces of software that work with applications
that you install on your Mac, to give them special
access and permissions to the files on your
Mac or other services. But sometimes it's not good
to have these turned on, because little things can
crop up, little problems. So go though here. Evernote for instance, I don't need this to have
any access to Quick Look, which is what happens
when you click on a file and you hit the space bar, it brings it up. I don't need Evernote
to be able to see that, so I'm just gonna uncheck that. Skitch, Photos Editing. I don't need that to be happening. So just uncheck anything here, that you don't think needs
to have access to the files and Finder app on your Mac. - So those are seven Mac settings that you should turn off immediately. Now that you've done this, we recommend rebooting your Mac. Just to make sure that
these settings take effect. You can just do that by
hovering over the Apple, clicking Restart. Your Mac will reboot, you'll be all set. Thank you guys for watching this video. Give it a thumbs up if you've enjoyed. Leave us a comment down below, if you have any other Mac questions, and don't forget to
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