What's up guys, my name's Brandon. And today I'm going to be showing
you some new settings in iOS 15, that you need to change
on your iPhone right away. So these are going to be settings that
will have an impact on your privacy, your battery life, and just overall
ease of use throughout iOS 15. And if you want to see an extensive
video specifically on how to save battery life on iOS 15, that video will be linked in the cards
and down in the description below, along with my video where I show
over 300 new features in iOS 15. Alright, so now let's go ahead and get into
these settings that you should strongly consider changing immediately. The first one has to do with
a safari and your IP address. So if we go down and our settings to
safari and then scroll down until we see hide IP address, you want to tap on
that and make sure that is turned on. You do not want this off. You want to hide your IP address
and you can see right there. It says your IP address can be used to
determine personal information like your location. And this is going
to protect you from that. Now you might also see
from trackers and websites. So you want to make sure
that that's enabled. That's only if you have
a private relay enabled. So if you don't have private relay
enabled, you'll only see from trackers, but nonetheless, we
should have this enabled. And now that we've talked
about private relay, we may as well go ahead
and talk about that next. So in iOS 15 in iCloud, there was a new feature called private
relay. And you could see that right here. If you tap on that, you may want
to consider turning this on. So it is currently in beta at
the time of recording this. And that's the only reason I have mine
currently disabled because it is kind of spotty with the connection.
But once this is out of beta, I will be having this on pretty much
the entire time I'm on my device. So this is going to hide at your IP
address and your internet activity so that websites can not build a profile for
you based on your web activity. Now, this is not a VPN. It only works in safari and it can't
hide like the region you're connecting from. So you're not going to get the
same benefits that you do from a VPN, but this is still a very, very great feature to have built in
to iOS now. And when you enable this, you will see that you have a section
right here that shows IP address location. If you tap on that, you can maintain general location
or use country and time zone. So this is definitely a feature
you want to consider turning on, especially once it comes out of beta. So this feature comes with
your iCloud plus subscription, which is the same price as what you
were already paying for before iOS 15. So it's going to be free if you are
already paying for storage beforehand and also included in iCloud plus
is the hide my email feature. So this is another really great
privacy feature and iOS 15. That's going to allow you to use a unique, random address that forwards
to your actual email address. So this is going to keep your personal
emails, private. So this is great. If you want it to maybe sign up to a
website's newsletter to get a discount, or if you just thought your information
might get sold to a third party, you definitely wants to have like an
alias email set up. And of course, if you start getting spammed, you can delete that alias email and
just create a new one very easily. So if you want to just tap
on, create a new address, you'll see that it gives
me a random email here. It just says compact dash
oh five stylish@icloud.com. So basically it just combines
random words with numbers, and that's what you get for
your alias email address. And now you can also label them. So
if you want to label your address, so say you signed up for a
specific website and this
email is only tied to that one website. You can
maybe put it in there. So maybe it's like a target email or
something like that. You could do that. And it could also make a note about it, like saying that you signed up for a
discount so you can label them and leave notes if you want to. And then when
you tap on next, you are all set. And now if you go down, you will see the email you just
set up and if you tap on it, you can easily deactivate
that email right there, or change anything that you want to. And
then also if you go down even further, you have the forward to section what
Joel lets you change the email that these aliases forward to. Now, the next thing you might want to change
has to do with focus modes and notifying others when you are in a focus
mode. So as you guys know an iOS 15, once you enter a focus mode, this is what we'll show at the bottom
for other people who go to text you and we'll let them know that
your notifications have
been silenced and you can disable this. If you go into your settings and go to
focus and then go into that focus and then focus status, you could
turn it off for everybody, but you might not want it to
be off for every single person. You might only want it to be off for
specific people and you can do that. So if we go back into our messages, once you're on a conversation right here
with somebody's top on their contact, and you will see a toggle here
called a share focused status. So you can disable that for a specific
contact and it will no longer show that message. So that is definitely a
setting you should consider changing. If you don't want specific people
seeing when you're in that focus mode, the next setting you guys should
change, it's inside of accessibility. So if we go into our
accessibility right here, you want to go down to audio visual
and then to background sounds. And this is something I've
talked about it so many times. This is one of my favorite
features in iOS 15. And I'm kind of surprised that
it is not enabled by default. So what this feature does is
it plays some background sound. So you can see you have
different ones right here, like the rain ocean and just different
ambient noises that will help you concentrate or go to sleep. And you
can also stop sounds when locked, if you want to. And also if you have the hearing
control center toggle right here, if you have to press on that, you have a quick little
access to background sounds
right here where you could turn it on and off easily
and also adjust the volume. So I would definitely recommend enabling
background sounds right here and also adding the hearing
toggle to your control center. If you think you're going to
use this at any given point, the next setting you guys should
change an iOS 15 it's inside of camera. So if we go into camera right here, you want to go to preserve settings
and then you want to make sure that you change your night mode
and also live photo. So this is one that drove me
crazy, especially in night mode. So this is new and iOS
15. So before on iOS 14, when I would turn night mode off, because sometimes it's really annoying
when I would turn it off, you know, I would take the picture
without night mode. And then the next time
I went into my camera, nightmare mode turned on and ruined my
photo and I had to go in and turn it off again. And I wished that I was able to
preserve the settings, but now in iOS 15, you are able to, so I would definitely recommend enabling
the preserved settings toggle right here for night mode and also maybe for
live photo or anything else that you see in here that you want to
preserve the settings for. So the next time you go into your camera
and one of these is not enabled or disabled. Now the next thing you guys want to
change is the notify when left behind feature. So this is also brand new and I was 15
and this is going to be very beneficial if you have an air tag and also if
you have multiple apple devices. So if you go into the, find my
application and then go to your device, you will see under notifications.
It shows notify when left behind. If you tap on that, you can enable that and you can see us
has received a notification when you leave that product behind. This can be helpful when taking this
item with you and then down here, you also have notify me except at
where you can add in your home address. Because obviously if you leave your house
without that product, it's not lost. So you don't want to get
any notification for that. So this is going to be very beneficial
for traveling and just really any other time that you maybe leave
something. If you're very forgetful, you may want to have this enabled, especially if like you have an air tag
connected to your keys or something important. The next setting that you need to
change is for those with an apple card, and this is going to help
prevent fraudulent transactions. So if it go into our wallet application
here where our apple card is set up, and if we tap on the little
card icon up in the top, right, to view our card information, you will see that we have a new
toggle in here for advanced fraud protection. And you could see, it says
to keep your card information safe, your security code will
change periodically. So you definitely want to make sure
that is enabled to prevent fraudulent transactions. And you will see
next to your security code. You will now get a new little icon.
So that is a must enable feature. If you have an apple card, the next setting you guys need to
change is inside of the mail section. So if you go to male and then
down to privacy protection, you want to make sure that
protect mail activity is enabled. This is an important one. And you can see it says male privacy
protection works by hiding your IP address and loading remote content
privately in the background, even when you don't open the message. So essentially this feature
not only hides your IP address, but it's also going to prevent senders
from tracking if you open their email or not. So now people are not going to be
able to see if you open the email or not. They're not going to be able to see
if you forwarded the email or not. So basically this is going to prevent
follow-up emails and other spammy tactics used by websites and others who have
little hidden pixels in the emails. So strongly, strongly
suggest turning this on. If you use mail on your iPhone, another
major privacy feature here in iOS 15, that you need to configure is
built in two factor authentication. So if you go to your settings
and then down to passwords, and then if you tap on the account, you could see at the bottom
under account options, we have set up verification
code. And if you tap on that, you will see that you can enter
a setup key or scan QR code. So now with iOS 15, you do not need to have a third party
application for two factor authentication, which is really, really nice to
have right here on device. Now, if we go back into our
accessibility settings, there's another new feature in here
that I want you guys to enable. And that is per app settings down
here at the bottom of accessibility. If you tap on that, you can
have per app settings now, so you can customize apps to only do
certain things in that application. So let me show you guys what I mean. So
I have it set up for Amazon right here. So if you guys don't know, Amazon does
not have a dark mode for the application. I know it's 20, 21. They
still don't have it. So you can basically do that
with this perhaps settings. You can have smart and
invert turned on for Amazon, so that now when you go into the Amazon
application, it's in a dark mode. So of course it's not a full
dark mode, not a real one, but that's just an example
of how you could use this. You could also do it for bold text, larger text and all these different things
right here, again on a per app basis, which is key. And you could also do something similar
with the text size control center toggle. So like for instance, if we go into Twitter right here and then
go down to the text toggle right here and have to press on that, you could change the text size
for this application only, instead of all throughout iOS, which is also kind of an extension of
at this perhaps settings feature here, an iOS 15, which I'm a big fan of. And I definitely think you guys should
consider adding in whatever application you wants and configuring
it to your liking here. The next thing you guys need to change
is inside of the weather application. So if you go into weather and if you
tap on these three dots in the bottom rights and then tap on the three
dots in the top rights right here, and then go to notifications, I would recommend turning on this
right here under my current location. My location turned that on
for weather notifications. So this will notify you when it's about
to start and stop raining or snowing at your current location. So I'm in
Florida. It rains all the time. This is very accurate with notifying
me when it's about to rain. And when it's about to stop raining, the next thing you guys need to change
is inside of the iCloud section and then inside of iCloud and then iCloud backup, we have a backup over cellular. So this is available on the iPhone
12 and newer because it uses 5g. But what this does is it backs
up your iCloud data over 5g instead of wifi. So I would strongly consider turning
that off because that's going to eat through your data and
also your battery life. So I would definitely only do iCloud
backups when you are connected to wifi and apple even warns you themselves. I say this may cause you to
exceed your cellular data plan. So take apples and take my advice. The next thing you guys might want to
do is go into your settings and go to notifications and then go to scheduled
summary and add in the applications that you want to add it to your scheduled
summary. So this basically, this is what it looks like right
here on your notification center. It shows your evening summary. This
comes in at one specific time per day, and it will show you notifications
from applications that you deem as not important enough to send
you a push notification, like an important notification.
So you can set this up right here. You can have multiple summaries
throughout the day. So for me, I only have these three applications
because I don't have a lot of unimportant notifications that I even have enabled. So I have these as just coming in at
6:06 PM because I don't want them to come in right when I get them,
because I'm not important enough. So I would schedule this up. You
know, a lot of people just say, just disabled notifications, if
you don't want them. But to me, there's some notifications
that I just want to have on, but I just don't need to
know about them right away. So that is what the scheduled
summary is for. Now. The next thing you guys should
consider changing is inside of safari, the address bar is going to be something
that some people just simply do not like being at the bottom, but
thankfully you can change that. So if you tap on the two,
A's here in the address bar, you have up top right here, it
shows, show top address bar, and that will revert the address
bar back to being up top. Like you've been used to for a while
that you could also change this inside of your safari settings right here. So you can change it from
tab bar to a single tab. You also have the option to change
the landscape tab bar and the tenting, if you want to. So I would just recommend going in here
and changing that tab bar to either the top or the bottom. Whichever
is your preference. Although I will say I would give the
bottom bar a chance if you just installed. I was 15 everybody's first instinct
is that they don't like it. Just give it a chance. It took me
about a month before I got used to it, but now I never want to go back. Now, the next thing you guys want to do
is go into your settings and go to notifications and then go to announce
notifications and make sure this is turned on. Make sure that announced notifications
and when connected to headphones, and you may also see CarPlay right
here, make sure those are enabled. And then you may also want to have reply
without confirmation enabled as well. So this an iOS 15, it's no
longer announced messages. So now Siri will not only announce your
messages when you get them when you have air pods in, but it will also announce
the notifications that you
have set up right here, if you want them to. So for me, I've like Chick-fil-A enabled and some
of these other applications enabled as well, that I would like to hear notifications
from like when I'm on a bike ride or when I just can not be
looking at my iPhone. Now, one of the best features
in iOS 15 is live text. And this is a feature where if you hold
your camera up to like a sign or up to something with text on it, it
can transcribe it in real time. And you could copy that to your notes
or, you know, send it in a message, whatever you want to do with it.
So this feature is really awesome, but some people are not going to
like it. And if you don't like it, you could actually turn this off and you
can do that by going into your settings and then going all the way down to
the camera and then down to live texts. So if you turn live, text off, it will turn off the live text
in the camera application. Now you're still going to
have it for screenshots. Like you could still do it in screenshots
and photos that you actually take and, you know, save it to your camera roll,
but you won't be able to do it live. You know, when you have the camera
application pulled up and in real time, the next thing you guys need to change.
It's inside of settings and privacy. If you go all the way down
to record app activity, you want to make sure that this is
turned on. So this is new and iOS 15, and you can see right here, it says, save a seven day summary
of when applications, access or data like your location or
microphone and see when apps or websites you visit within apps, contact domains. So you want this to be on and
you want to have this data saved. So as of right now, there is no UI right here that
shows when apps access your data. But in a future iOS 15 release,
you will see that right here. And you want to make sure that this
is enabled for when that time comes. And then the final thing
you guys should change. And iOS 15 is also here
under the privacy section. And if you go to location services and
then all the way down through system services, and then all the way
down to significant locations, you want to make sure that is disabled. That's basically just going to be
following you around and keeping a log of where you go every single day, which
will not only eat up your battery life, but it's also going to eat up your
data so that I would also go ahead and consider disabling most
of these systems services, because you just simply do not need
them. So things like cell network, search compass, calibration, device
management, system customization, we have the product improvement
toggles right here, both disabled. You want to disable
probably most of these. And basically all this is doing is again, it's for your system services for
the location. It's not disabling. These features like if you had
disabled the home kit right here, it's not going to disable home kit. It's only going to disable the
location based features of home kits. So that's why you can disable
most of these in here, because most are not going to
matter like setting time zone, unless you're traveling all the time.
You don't need that enabled, you know, you don't need the compass
calibration and things like that. Nothing in here you really need enabled
besides maybe like find my iPhone, maybe emergency calls. And that's Wes things that are actually
going to matter at the end of the day. So there you have it guys. Those are about 20 settings
that you should be aware
of and that you may want to change on your iOS 15 device. Now, if you guys want to see another episode
like this with more settings of change, let me know down in a comment below, and also let me know what
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of my other iOS 15 videos, those are all linked to down
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coming very soon. But anyways, guys, thanks again for watching
and I'll see you soon.
