(bouncy 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 Android settings
to turn off immediately. We have a Samsung Galaxy
S10 running Android 10. If you have a different phone,
different operating system, it might look a little bit different but the settings are all the same. - Everything we're going
to talk about today is designed to either take the load off your phone's processor which
is going to speed it up or it's going to save your
battery life; both good things. - Yep. - Or it's going to increase
your personal privacy which is also a big
consideration nowadays. - Yes. - So we need to go to the
Settings app to get started. - Right, so to do that, swipe down from the top of the screen there. I have the Settings app here. If you don't see the
Settings app in this menu just go to search and type
in Settings. There it is. I'm just going to tap on that.
We are in the Settings app. First thing we're going to turn
off is Nearby device scanning. - Nearby device scanning does
what it sounds like it does. Your phone is constantly
searching for other devices that are nearby that it
might want to connect to. It can really drain your battery life. - [David] Yep, so we'll
tap on Connections. We will tap on More
connection settings here and then Nearby device scanning, tap that switch, turn it off. - Next we're going to talk
about how to choose which apps you want to allow to continue
to run in the background of your phone even when
you're not using it. Pretty easy to get there.
- Mhm. - We need to enable developer mode though. So, let's do that. - [David] So we go back to the
main page of the Settings app and scroll all the way down
to About phone, tap on that. - [David] Then tap on
Software information. Now tap on Build number seven times. - [David] One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven. - [David] Then enter your
PIN or your passcode. - [David] Developer mode has
been turned on, excellent! - [David] Alright, so we're
going to go back to the main page of the Settings app.
- [David] Back, back. So now you'll see developer
options underneath About phone. Tap on developer options. - [David] And we're going to
scroll down to Background check. - [David] Background check. - [David] It's under the Apps section. - [David] Under the Apps section. Lot of stuff in here, lot of cool stuff. There it is, Apps. - [David] Background check. - [David] Background check, tap. - In this list, go through
and pay specific attention to which ones have a
time amount underneath because it shows you how
long ago that app or service used the processor on your phone. This can use cellular data but it also, it's just going to drain your battery. - Alright. - [David] So if there's
anything in this list, especially things that have
been using it like Bixby Voice. - [David] Let's just tap
that switch, turn it off. - [David] Turn it right
off, let's go down the list. Anything that you don't recognize
in here that doesn't need to be updating in the background when you're not using your phone like Galaxy Essentials Widget,
let's turn that thing off. - [David] Turn it off. - Just turn it off.
- Yep. - You can always come
back here and turn it on if something doesn't work...
- Yep, that's it. - ...the way you expect to. Next we're going to turn off
Usage and diagnostic information. So this is information
that's getting sent to Google or to Android developers in the background when you're not using your phone. - Mhm. - Burning through -
- Battery life. So let's go back to the main
page of the settings app. Tap, tap, here we go
and then tap on Google. Then tap on the three dots in the upper right hand
corner of the screen. And tap Usage & diagnostics. Here you'll see a nice little
switch, it's On right now, just tap it, now it's off. - Save some battery life,
save some cellular data. - [David] Easy.
- [David] Why not? Next we're going to talk about
turning off ads personalization. - Mhm. - This is going to just
deliver; I know it's anonymous but still, it's sending
information about the way that you use your phone to ad networks so that they can send you
more relevant advertising. - Yeah, they're collecting
data on you and so you can say, oh I just talked about
biscuits in my living room and now all of sudden I'm
getting biscuits ads on my phone. - I know, it's weird. - [David] So we'll just
tap the back button in the upper left hand
corner of the screen. And you'll see underneath
here Ads, tap on that. Opt out of Ads Personalization. You know, it's a settings
to turn off video- - Right. - You have to turn this
one on to turn it off. - Right. - [David] We're going to go
ahead and turn that switch on. Opt out of interest-based
ads, you'll still see ads but they may not be
based on your interests. Note if you clear your cache, you will lose your opt-out setting, okay. Now it's on. - [David] Interesting, you'll
lose your opt-out setting. - Yeah, so if you clear
your cache, come back here. - That's, that's a load of
crap they're doing that- - (laughs) - Because they don't need to do that. - Right. - [David] That's crazy. Anyway... The next thing we're
going to do is take a look at the location settings on your phone. - [David] Yep, so let's
go back to the main page of the settings app and we're
going to tap on the Location. The first thing we're going to do is talk about Improve accuracy,
use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for more accurate location detection. Go ahead and turn these right off, Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth scanning. I've seen actually a
lot of posts on forums where people are saying I
turned these two settings off and I saved a ton of battery life. - Yeah this- - Because it's just constantly
scanning and scanning and scanning and
- Right. - drains your battery. - Yeah and your location's
still going to work, GPS is still built into the phone. - Right. - You don't need to have these things on. - [David] Let's go back here. Next let's talk about
Google Location History. There's just going to
be a location history of all the places you've been. - Yeah, a little creepy. - It's, it's similar to the
iPhone Significant Locations where it just started saving a long list of all the places you've been
- Right. - And it's just, it's a
little weird for my taste. Tap the switch and then tap Pause near the lower right-hand
corner of the screen. And now it has been paused. Perfect. And go back to the location settings here and last thing
here is network data analytics. This is like sending data analytics to your wireless carrier, who needs it? Not me. Again, this is just going
to be burning your battery by constantly sending
data to your carrier. Just tap that switch at
the top of the screen - [David] Yeah. Turn it off. Are you sure? Yes, and don't show me this message again. Great. - Sorry Sprint. - Sorry Sprint, fix your own network. - [David] Too late,
we're getting bought out. (laughs) - The next thing we want to talk about is restricting background
data for specific apps. Like we said earlier, if an
app is constantly getting new data in the background of your phone, it can drain the battery pretty quickly. So let's come back to the
main page of the settings app. And then tap on Apps. Here you'll see a list of all your apps. Just go ahead and pick one, I'm
going to pick Bixby Routines. - Yeah. - And then I'm going
to tap on Mobile data. Here you'll see Restrict background data. We're going to set this to
Always, this way it always restricts the background
data the app is using. - Right. - Especially for apps that
you don't use very often, set it to Always. - [David] Yeah, it's going to
save your cellular data plan, it's also going to save your battery life. It's just about being
intentional about which apps you want to download
content, like maybe ESPN, and which apps you don't
need to download content, like maybe your bank or something. - [David] Right. The last thing we want
to show you how to do is turn off Install unknown
apps for pretty much all of your apps.
- Mhm. - What this'll do is will
block your apps from installing the other apps- - From unknown sources.
- From unknown sources. - Could be ransomware. - Yeah, you just don't want
to end up with some malware on your Android because some other app downloaded some other app and then... - Yeah. - Avalanche; not good. So let's go back, go back again, now we're on the main Apps page here and tap those three dots in
the upper right-hand corner of the screen and then tap Special access. Scroll down here and tap
on Install unknown apps. And, pretty much, just turn
this off for everything, make sure it's not allowed.
- Yeah. - If you see an app that is
allowed, you can just tap on it and then you'd say Allow from this source if that switch was on, turn it off. - A lot of the times apps
will ask your permission if they're allowed to do
this, you just tap yes because you're not paying attention and that's how bad things can happen. - Yeah.
- So just go through, this is a really important
security measure. - Yeah, of course, if you're
okay with an app installing - Unknown apps. - The unknown apps, you can
go ahead and leave it on for certain apps but most of
the time you don't want that. - Yeah, you could be surprised. - Surprise, here's some malware. - Here's, yeah (laughs) - Thanks for watching this video. Those are some Android settings
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