- David and David here. Out of the box, your iPhone comes with a bunch of pernicious
settings turned on, that most of all will drain
your I-phones battery life. If you liked our video, 7 iPhone Settings, You
Need to Turn Off Now, you'll like this one because we got a few new ones to talk about. - Right, things have changed. Especially since the last video, we realized that some of the settings, even if they're the same settings have moved to different places. - Yeah.
- Lets dive in. - [David On Right] I'll open
the settings app in my iPhone. Scroll down and we're
going to start in privacy. Tap privacy. At the top of the screen,
tap location services and scroll down to system services. There's a purple arrow right there. - [David On Left] What does that mean? - Bad sign already? It means that an app or service is currently used your location or has very recently used or location. So I'm gonna tap on system services. We've got a lot of switches
turned on by default and we wanna turn off most them. - We sure do. Apple pay merchant identification: Off. Sell network search: Off. Is this still gonna
search for cell networks and connect to them? Yes.
- Yes. - Most of these settings
like setting time zone, cell network search,
networking and wireless. All of these things have to
do with adjusting the way that your iPhones and tennis work when you go to other countries. So unless you're going to other countries, turn these things off. - [David On Right] So the
ones we're actually gonna recommend leaving on. Let's turn off that, turn off that, leave on emergency calls and SOS. Leave on, find my iPhone Home Kit? (upbeat music) Turn it off. Location based alerts, suggestions, motion calibration, and distance. Turn that off. Networking and wireless: Turn that off. - This talks about ultra wide band. Apple recently released for the
iPhone 11 and the iPhone 12, a U1 chip. And that is GPS at the
scale of your living room. Their words, not ours. Meaning, that if I want
to airdrop to somebody, I can point my phone at David's phone. And then David will be the
first person that appears on that list. If you're in a busy office, I can see how that would be helpful because you might get airdrop suggestions with a whole bunch of people. But if you're not, turn this
off and save battery life. - I'll tap turn off. Setting times zone, let
office share my location? - I don't use it.
- Okay. System customization
off and wifi, calling. Turn that off. Wifi calling will still work. - You gotta ask yourself: Are you traveling to a different country where wifi calling is
calibrated differently? That's the only reason
to leave these things on. It has nothing to do with the actual wifi calling where you live. - Next, let's talk about
significant locations. Go ahead and tap on that. You'll see a list of places you
visit often that Apple saves using your location,
draining battery life. A little bit weird, I
get a little weirded out when I see this. I didn't even remember going
to Queensbury, New York. But then I looked up on the map and I was like, "Oh yeah, it was there." It was kind of weird that
Apple remembers And I don't. - Yeah. - So--
- Well, nobody remembers if they go to Queensbury New York, David. - So just tap the switch
at the top of the screen to turn off significant locations. And tap, turn off. You wanna clear this history list? Just tap clear history here on the screen. - Right. - Next let's tap back in
the upper left hand corner of the screen and scroll down here to product improvement. Go ahead and turn all these off. - Only if they're paying you. If Apple's paying you to
help improve their products, leave it on. But for me, they can improve
their own gosh darn traffic. - Yeah, we are not fortunate enough to be being paid by Apple,
- Right? - And, but we'd love to be, you know. Hey, I'll turn these on. Improve maps. There's no way that my iPhone's location is gonna do enough to make Apple Maps as good as Google Maps. I'm sorry, it's just not gonna work-- - Well, maybe you should turn it on and help them improve their maps. - Maybe I'm the reason why
their maps aren't as good. I don't think so.
- Perhaps. In the upper left hand
corner of the screen we'll just tab back. And here are all the main
page of location services. The next thing you wanna do is look through your list of apps, and look specifically for the word always. This means an app always
has access to your location and it can drain your battery really fast. For example, I turned
on DraftKings' location, setting up for a video. I drove back up I87. And during that drive DraftKings used my location 32 times. - Right, that's incredible. They're just always checking
to see where you are. - Not necessarily. I'm not entering contests
while I'm driving in my car. - That's good. - So I'll tap on DraftKings, for example. So they only need your location while. you're actually using the
app and entering contests. I'm gonna switch that
too while using the app. - Yeah, pretty much everything from always switched it
to well using the app. You're going to save battery life. - Yeah, I'll tap back one more time. One other example I
wanna point out is SEFCU. SEFCU always has access to my location. Not necessarily, but you want to be wary of maybe apps that
aren't as well developed accessing your location.
- Right, and you may not know what SEFCU is, weirdo. SEFCU is David's bank.
- Yes. - Local credit union. Why would they always need
access to David's location? - To how nearby ATM's. - I guess always, but that
would be while using the app. I have no idea why they
always need his location. I think that, as David said, it was just a development team that didn't know what they were doing. - So I'm gonna tap never here. They don't need my location. - Let's get into something
kind of controversial here, personalized ads. And it's been amazing,
the amount of pushback we've gotten from people
who want to see ads (crowd cheering) that are tailored to them. Let's dive in here.
- Yeah, so I'll tap back upper left-hand corner of the screen. Tap back to privacy, scroll
down here to Apple Advertising. - Personalized ads. If you wanna see
information about yourself, you can tap on view ad
targeting information. But in my experience, there really isn't a lot of
stuff in there, if anything. But they are still targeting me. Personalized ads. People think, "Okay, if I turn this off, I'm gonna see all these really
low quality crappy ads." But that's not necessarily true, because just because they
can't tell that you went to the Airbnb App, and now you're playing a game and you see an advertisement for the same exact place or Amazon, the same products. Doesn't mean that you're not gonna get relevant ads at all. It just means that they're gonna use other targeting criteria. Life if you're on an iPhone help website, you're gonna see ads
about iPhone batteries. Not about Cancun, if you
wanted to go to Cancun. So a lot of the time, I like to just turn this
off because I still see ads, but they're almost more
relevant to what I'm looking at. And then Airbnb, isn't
like trying to target me. 'Cause a lot of the times
I go on that website and I just wanna go someplace, but I don't really wanna spend money. - Also, if advertisers have
less information about you, then you become less valuable to them, they may actually target you less. - Exactly. You may see fewer ads. But they won't tell you that. - Long story short, turn
off personalized ads. And while we expect to get a lot of comments about that, that's fine. - Calm down!
(crowd chattering) - Yeah well, I don't wanna see crappy ads. This is not what's gonna happen. - Next, let's tap back to privacy in the upper left-hand
corner of the screen. One above Apple Advertising
is analytics and improvements. - It's amazing how much data
is constantly being sent from your iPhone to Apple and
other app developers. And what's funny is that they keep building in new switches here when they get caught doing
something they shouldn't. Like the improved Siri
and Dictation thing. They were just sending
people's conversations to their servers for analysis. - Yeah.
- But now you can opt out of that. So every time you do this, you just remember like
improve Siri and Dictation. The only way that's gonna happen is if they send audio files from
your phone to their servers. That's gonna use battery life. - So I'll just tap the switch. Also, turns off data
collection on your Apple Watch. Two for one tip there. I'm just gonna start
turning off these switches. There we go. The last thing in privacy: Let's tap back in the upper
left hand corner of the screen. Scroll all the way up and tap on tracking. This is the allow apps to request a track, allows apps to apps to
ask to track your activity across other company's apps and websites. That's a bit of a mouthful. - You know who doesn't
like this setting, David? - Facebook. - Facebook does not like the setting because whenever you open Facebook App for the first time after
you update your iPhone, it's gonna say, "Hey, Facebook would like to track you everywhere you go." And a bunch of other scary stuff. And then you have to opt into it now. It's not just automatically
turned on for Facebook. - Nobody's gonna say yes to that. Nobody's gonna say yes to that. Yeah, and Facebook would
like to see everything about what you're doing online, so that they can sell you as a
product to their advertisers. When you see ads, it is Facebook selling you,
selling traffic to advertisers. If you're not gettin' a cut of
that, I would turn this off. - All right, well I'm gonna
go ahead and turn that off. That's it for the privacy
section of the settings app. - But wait, there's more! - The next thing we're gonna talk about is in-app ratings and reviews. I'm sure most people watching this video have downloaded an app for the first time, opened it for the first time. And the first thing they see:
Can you write us a review? How many stars did you give us? And it's like, "I don't know, I haven't used the app before." - I know, yeah, how am
I supposed to do this? Also, have you ever done it? I've done it like twice. I usually say no.
- I say no as well. I think most people do. - Let's head back to privacy in the upper left-hand
corner of the screen, back to settings. One below privacy, you see App Store. Tap on that and look for
in-app ratings and reviews. Help developers and other
users know what you think by letting apps, ask for product feedback. - Right, turn that switch right off. You can always go and
leave a review for an app if you feel so inclined, but now it's on your terms. You're not gonna see that
annoying little pop-up. I like to turn this off. - And now in a cruel twist of irony. (dramatic symphonic music) Please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel. It's kind of like an
in-app ready interview. But--
- It's more like a in-video rating and review.
- Yes! - Absolutely, please do. - Would help us a lot.
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talking about is push mail. I'm gonna tab back to settings. Upper left hand corner of the
screen, and scroll down here, and tap on mail. Then tap accounts, and
then tap fetch new data. Right now, I have mail set to push. - Right, one of the
biggest battery drainers on iPhone was push on. Your iPhone is constantly asking: "Is their mail, is their mail, is their mail," to the mail server. But with push mail off, your iPhone will choose how often to fetch the mail from the server. So for most people, every 15 minutes to check or whenever
they open the Mail App is more than often enough. - Yeah, so I'll turn off
the switch next to push at the top of the screen. And then I'll set every 30 minutes. I don't do a lot of email
on my iPhone anyway. The next thing we wanna talk about is background app refresh. This lets apps download new content in the background of your iPhone. So the next time you open your app, it's a bunch of fresh
content in front of you. - Right, do you open all of
your apps every single day? I certainly don't. Do I want all of those
apps that I never opened, always downloading
content in the background, which is gonna drain my battery and also use cellular data? I don't think so. So you might wanna have
this on for one or two apps. Let's choose. - Yep, I'll tap back to accounts. Upper left hand corner of the screen. Back to mail, back to the
main page of the settings app. We're gonna scroll up and tap general. Then we're going to tab
background app refresh. First thing to do, tap
one background app fresh at the top of the screen. Do you want cellular
data to be use by apps to download new content in
the background of your iPhone? Probably not.
- Nope. - We recommended choosing wifi. I'll tap back. And here's a list of all
your apps that can download new content in the
background of your iPhone? I think by default it is all of them. - Yeah, it is all of them. For instance, Note:
Notes might be a good one because you want notes to be able to download the notes so that
when you open the Notes App, it's not gonna like have
to load a list of a hundred if you haven't opened it in a while. But a lot of things like
Facebook could be downloading all sorts of stuff in the background. Instagram images, anything like that, you might wanna just turn off. Anything that's a
messenger type of an app, you might wanna leave on if
that's a concern for you. - Yeah, so let's go through this list and you know, find what works for you. - All right. You'll say battery life,
you'll save cellular data. The cost of this is maybe
having to wait a second or two when you open the app for it to download. I turn them off, it's gonna totally. Turn most of 'em off. - And those are some iPhone
settings you should turn off. Now give this video a thumbs up. - Yeah.
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