9 iPhone Settings You Need To Turn Off Now [2021]

david and david here, out of the box, your iPhone comes with a bunch of pernicious

settings

enabled which, above all, will drain the battery life of your iPhone. If you liked our video, 7 iPhone Settings You Should Disable Now. You'll like this once I have some new ones to talk about the right things that have changed, especially since the last video, we noticed that some of the

settings

, even if they are the same settings, have been moved to different places, let's dive in , I'll open the Settings app on my iPhone. down and we're going to start under 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, what does that mean?

Bad signal, it already means that an application or service is currently being used. in the location or have used your location very recently, so I'm going to tap on system services. We have many switches

turn

ed on by default. We want to disable most of them. Surely Apple Pay identifies the merchant outside of cellular network searching. disabled, will this still scan for cellular networks and connect to them? Yes, most of these settings, such as setting the time zone, cellular network scanning, and wireless connection, all of these things have to do with adjusting the way your iPhone's antennas work when you go to other countries, so unless you're going to other countries,

turn

these things off, so the ones we're really going to recommend leaving on, let's turn that off, let's turn it off, let's leave emergency calls on sos, let's leave it on, find my iPhone starter kit , turn it off. location-based alerts suggestions motion and distance calibration turn off networks and wireless turn off this talks about ultra wideband that Apple recently launched with the iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 a u1 chip and that's GPS at the scale of your living room being there where it is is not ours, which means that if I want to airdrop someone I can point my phone at David's phone and then David will be the first person to appear 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 bunch of people, but if you don't turn this off and save battery, I'll just tap turn off setup times, turn it off, share my location, I don't use it, okay, system customization. turn off and Wi-Fi calling turn it off. Wi-Fi calling will continue to work. You have to wonder if you are traveling to a different country where Wi-Fi calling is calibrated differently. That's the only reason to leave these things on. It has nothing to do with it. with real Wi-Fi calling where you live next, let's talk about important locations, go ahead and tap that here you'll see a list of places you visit frequently that Apple saves using your location, draining battery life.

Bit strange. I get a I was a little weirded out when I saw this, I don't even remember going to Queensbury, New York, but then I looked at the map and thought, oh yeah, it was there. It's a little strange that Apple remembers it and I don't, yeah, so no. but no one remembers if they went to Queensbury, New York, David, so just tap the switch at the top of the screen to turn off important locations and tap Shut Down. If you want to clear this history list, just tap Clear History here on the screen just then let's tap.

Go back to the left corner of the screen and scroll down here to upgrade the product. Go ahead and disable all of these options only if you get paid. If Apple pays you to help improve their products, leave it on, but to me you can improve their products. My own damn traffic, we're not lucky enough to get paid through the app, but we'd love you to know, hey, I'll turn them on to improve the maps, there's no way my iPhone location is going to do enough to Manzana. maps as good as google maps sorry but it's not going to work maybe you should activate it and help them improve their minds maybe I'm the reason why their maps are not as good I don't believe it at the top In the left corner of the screen, let's tap back and here on the main location services page, the next thing you

need

to do is go through your list of apps and specifically look for the word always, this means that an app always has access to your location . and it can drain the battery very quickly, for example I turned on Draftkings location settings for a video.

I drove back down I-87 and during that trip, Draftking is using my location 32 times. That's amazing, they're always checking to see where. You're not

need

ed, I won't enter contests while driving my car, that's good, so I'll tap on draftkings for example, they only need your location while you're using the app and participating in contests. I'm going to change that. also while using the app, yes, almost everything from always changing it to using the app well, you will save battery. Yes, I will play again. Another example I want to point out is sef queue sef always has access. to my location it is not necessary, but you should be careful with applications that you may not know about, they are well developed in your location and you may not know what things the signal is strange, the signal is David's bank, yes the local credit union, why would they always need to? access to David's location to show nearby ATMs, I guess always, but it would be nice to use the app.

I have no idea why they always need this location. I think, like David said, it was just a development team that didn't know what they were doing. so I'm going to touch on never here, you don't need my location, let's get into something controversial here, personalized ads and it's been surprising the amount of pushback we've received from people who want to see ads personalized to them. Let's dive in, yes, I'll tap back in the top left corner of the screen, tap back for privacy, scroll down to see personalized ads from Apple, if you want to see information about yourself, you can tap view, add targeting information, but in my experience there really isn't much there, if anything, but I'm still targeted with personalized ads.

People think okay, if I turn this off, I'll see all these really low quality ads, but that's not necessarily true because just because I can't say that you went to the Airbnb app and now you're playing and you see an ad from the same place. exact or from Amazon, the same products, it does not mean that you will not receive relevant ads at all. it just means that they're going to use other targeting criteria, like if you're on an iPhone help website, you're going to see ads about iPhone batteries, not about Cancun, if you want to go to Cancun, so most of the time.

I would like to just turn this off because I still see ads but they are almost more relevant to what I'm seeing and then Airbnb doesn't try to target me because a lot of times I go on that website and I just want to go somewhere but I don't really want to spend the money. Also, if advertisers have less information about you, you become less valuable to them, they may target you less accurately, and you may see fewer ads, so I won't tell you. Long story short, please disable personalized ads and we hope to get a lot of feedback on this.

Okay, calm down, why would you want to see nasty ads? This is not what will happen next, let's go back to privacy in the upper left corner. of screen one above Apple advertising are analysis and improvements. It's amazing how much data is constantly being sent from your iPhone to Apple and other app developers, and the funny thing is that they keep throwing in new switches here when they're caught doing something they should. I don't like Enhanced Siri Dictation, they were just sending people's conversations to their servers for analysis, yes, but now you can opt out, so every time you do this, remember as an Enhanced Siri Prompt, the only one way that will happen is if they send audio files from your phone to their servers, that will eat up your battery life, let's just flip the switch and it also turns off data collection on your Apple Watch, two for one, a tip, yeah , I'm going to start turning these switches off, here we go.

The latest in privacy, let's tap again in the top left corner of the screen, scroll up and tap tracking. This is the Allow apps to request tracking option, it allows apps to request to track your activity on other companies' apps and websites. A little complicated, you know who doesn't like this setup? David Facebook Facebook doesn't like this setup because every time you open the Facebook app for the first time after updating your iPhone, he says "Hey, Facebook wants to track you wherever you go." and a bunch of other scary stuff and then you have to opt in now not only is it automatically activated for Facebook, no one is going to say yes to that, no one is going to say yes to that, yes, Facebook would like to see everything about what you are doing online. so they can sell you as a product to their advertisers when you see ads, it's Facebook that sells you traffic to advertisers, if you don't get a cut of that I would turn this off, well I'm going to go ahead and turn it off, that's it for the section privacy settings in the Settings app, but wait, there's more.

The next thing we will talk about is ratings and reviews in the app. I'm sure most of the people watching this video have downloaded an app for the first time. They open it for the first time and the first thing they see is: can you write us a review? How many stars do you give us? It's like I don't know. I haven't used the app before. I know, yeah, how am I supposed to do it? You have also done this before. I've done it twice. I usually say no, yes, I also say no. I think most people do.

I'll go back to Privacy in the top left corner of the screen and go back to Settings. Under Privacy UC App Store Tap on it and find in-app ratings and reviews Help developers and other users know what you think by allowing apps to ask for product feedback Turn off that switch You can always go and leave a review for an application. If you want it, but it's on your terms now, you won't see that annoying little popup. I like to disable this feature and now with a cruel touch of irony like this video and subscribe to our channel, it's like an inappropriate review but it's more like a reading and video review, yes absolutely please , do it.

It would help us a lot, only four percent of people subscribe, please subscribe. Yes, the next thing we'll talk about is sending mail. I'm going back. to settings in the top left corner of the screen and scroll down here and tap mail then tap accounts and then tap check for new data right now I have mail set to press right, one of the biggest battery drains on the iPhone , pushing on your iPhone is constantly asking if your mail is your mail as your mail on the air, the mail server, but with mail push on your iPhone you will choose how often to retrieve mail from the server, so most People will check it every 15 minutes or every time they open the mail app.

It's more than enough, yeah, so I'm going to turn off the switch next to press at the top of the screen and then set it to every 30 minutes. Anyway, I will be sending a lot of emails on my iPhone, the next thing I want to talk about is the background app, update this, less apps download new content in the background of your iPhone, so the next time you open your app there will be a lot of new content in front of you, right? Do you open all your apps every day? I certainly don't. Do I want all those apps I never open to always download content in the background, which will drain my battery and also use mobile data?

I don't think so, so you might want to have this turned on for one or two apps, let's choose Yes, I'll go back to accounts in the top left corner of the screen, I'll go back to mail, I'll go back to the main page of the settings app, we'll scroll up and we'll tap General and then we'll tap background app refresh first. What to do Tap the app in the background Refresh the top of the screen Do you want apps to use cellular data to download new content to the background of your iPhone? probably not, no, we recommend choosing wi-fi.

I'll tap back and here's a list of all your apps that can download new content to the background of your iPhone. I think by default it's all, yeah, it's all, for example, notes. Notes can be good because you want notes to be able to download the notes so that when you open the notes app you don't like havingIt will load a list of 100 if you haven't opened it in a while, but a lot of things like Facebook could download all sorts of things into your Instagram images in the background. Anything like that, you might want to disable any Messenger type apps that you might want to leave on if that's a concern for you.

Yes, so check out this list and you'll know what works for you. Let's say battery life, you will save mobile data, the cost of this is maybe having to wait a second or two when you open the app to download it. I turn them off, it will completely turn off most of them and those are some iPhone settings. You should turn it off now like this video subscribe to our channel. We would really appreciate it if you would subscribe and then share this video with nine of your friends. Tell them to share it with nine of their friends like it's a pyramid scheme. the people at the top get all the subscribers that's not a pyramid scheme david that's multi-level marketing totally different things totally different using multi-level distribution multi-level marketing multi-level marketing system invigado multi-level execution bigger yeah cool okay cool thanks for watching , thanks for watching