Hey what's up guys Zain here and welcome welcome to my new channel
so in today's video we're going to be talking about five iPhone settings that you may want
to turn off on your iPhone alrighty let's get this party train rolling
but first
that's good coffee prior to the current iOS 15 update when i received an incoming call
it would take over your entire screen was it disrupted definitely but it got the job done
Apple then changed it to a banner style notification so now whenever you receive a call
it will show up as a small banner notification on the top of your screen
well this is good because now you can keep using your phone and it's a little less disruptive
however i don't know about you but there have been multiple occasions where I've nearly missed a call
because i dismissed the notification as something that didn't require my immediate attention
so here's how we can change it back to a full screen where it can grab your attention
select settings scroll down to phone once you select phone select incoming calls and
change it from banner to full screen Apple has made a lot of changes to Safari one of
the major changes you'll notice is that the address bar is now on the bottom of the screen
the idea is to simplify reachability by moving the address bar to the bottom of the screen
it's easier to reach the buttons for an effortless browsing experience i personally prefer it at the
current state however some people might still like it at the top here's how you can change it back
load up safari and navigate to a web page in my case I'm gonna go to apple.com once the website
loads select the AA icon on the address bar and select the first option on top would say show
top bar that should take it to the top to bring it back to the bottom select the AA icon again
and select the bottom option which is show bottom tab bar and that should take it back down next
stop background app refresh this is a setting that allows apps to run in the background of
your iPhone even when you're not using them with this setting enabled your apps will constantly
keep refreshing their content turning the setting off will definitely give your battery life a boost
however this doesn't mean that you won't receive those important notifications
from your social media apps or your sports score or what have you it just means that whenever you
open up an app like Facebook the newer post will load then here's how we can customize this feature
go to settings and select general select background app refresh then select background
app refresh again and select off that should turn off background app refresh rolling on to
protecting your mail activity now to understand this feature a little better let's talk about
those pesky little things called tracking pixels as the name implies these are tiny little pixels
that are embedded in the body of your email now they could be anywhere from the white space to
a graphic of an email and are practically undetectable despite appearing as nothing
these tracking pixels capture a lot of data about you from your operating system to your
screen resolution they can even tell you how when and where you open up this email
or whether you clicked any links in it or whether you forwarded this email to any of your contacts
enter mail privacy protection now there's not much to this feature from a user's perspective
but once you enable this bad boy a lot of fairly complex things happen in the background
per apple mail privacy protection hides your IP address and downloads remote content privately
when you receive a message these measures help conceal your actions and your identity
without these safeguards in place senders can gain valuable information about your activities
and location it is important to note that mail privacy protection is a feature of the default
iOS mail app users opting to use third-party email apps won't be able to utilize this feature
go to settings then select mail then select privacy protection and toggle on protect mail
activity and you're all set after enable mail privacy protection you're all set
just let it do its thing in the background and you can check your email without worrying
whether your data is being harvested without your knowledge or consent
all right party people so let's take this settings train to our last stop privacy is something that
that's really important to me personally is the first thing that i take a look at on any app or
device that i use now Apple has given you a lot of options to fine-tune these settings to your liking
let's take a look at a few now the first thing that i want to talk about in this section is
location location location you want to fine-tune these settings to match your needs and only allow
these apps to have access to your location on a need to know basis the keyword that we are looking
for is always so most of the apps don't need to constantly track your location such as your
banking app it doesn't need to track your location all the time the only time that i
can think of that it needs your location is if you're looking for a branch or an atm nearby
other than that not really so most of these settings can be either be turned off altogether
or just change too while you're using the app same goes to all the other features such as
camera microphone or bluetooth you can customize which apps need constant access to these things
while you're at it go back to privacy settings and tap on apple marketing and turn off personalized
ads this won't make you receive less ads but it'll definitely make advertisers have less information
about you next up tracking now companies like facebook really hate this feature it's basically
do you want an app to be able to track what other apps you use or what websites you visit
not really so the next two features that i want to talk about are paid features for icloud plus users
but are totally worth paying for the first one is private relay this kind of acts like a vpn
which means your internet traffic is sent through apple's proxy servers where it strips out your ip
address and then assigns you a random one so now whenever you visit a website they get that random
ip address and it's not easy to track you the next one is hide my email this service basically allows
you to create unlimited mask emails so the next time you have to provide an email address to sign
up for a service you don't have to give your real one and you can customize this to your liking so
the next time you start receiving too many unwanted emails or spam messages you can simply
turn off this email the last one that i want to talk about very quickly is how to generate a
privacy report once activated it will record how apps use your data for the next seven days the
report entails basically how these apps access and use your data from your microphone to your
location to even your internet history so these are a few features from the privacy option to be
honest though this section is so wide enough that it's hard to cover in a short segment like this
so maybe it requires a video of its own stay tuned for that one well there you go folks so if
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