know about? all I know is it has been previously suggested i turn these off, so all of mine were off. There are some services I use in settings I have left on, contrary to prior suggestions. Apparently, I accepted the explanations of all these covered today, cause they were all off. Yeah @PayetteForward!
I've followed your earlier suggestions. I have even fewer Location System Services enabled than the ones you showed here. Nice that the update to iOS 16.6 didn't reenable any. My poor tired XsMax is down to 82% battery capacity. I'm holding out until September to decide whether to get an iPhone 15 or to replace the battery. $80 or >$1,000? The iPhone 15 had better be pretty special to be worth that much to me.
Awesome video! Every iPhone user deserves this honest breakdown. Significant locations is also used for backtrack in the compass app to help find your way back if you haven’t set waypoints.
Finally! A video about these specific services and how important it is to turn these off. Nobody else on TH-cam has these videos and I appreciate these video so much. Great work!
The ONLY one I have have on is find my phone it has been that way for over an entire year. When I first subscribed to your channel. My iphone 13 battery is still at 97% after 1 1/2 years in service. And I am a TH-cam moderator using my IPhone13 exclusively. I also have an Iphone 7plus that I use as well, but no longer for moderating. I use it for calls and texts it has served me well since 2016. I had the battery replaced at 79% (4 months ago) however the Capacitative screen is about worn out. Thank you for all the tips and tricks You are appreciated very much
Just found you guys while surfing I am new to iPhone because I'm a longtime Android guy... You channel is amazing, I have subscribed and will be binge-watching you guys this weekend!!!!
System customisation affects Night Shift, which turns your screen to a more yellow-ish tint after sundown to limit it's affect on sleep. I don't know however if night shift would be the only affected function.
I recently started using Apple Maps because I moved to a different state and my new address is ONLY found on Apple Maps. It’s NOT on Google Maps or Mapquest or anywhere else (yet).
So happy you made an updated version of this!! Thank you! I have a question: when I disable Networking & Wireless, my screen immediately dims noticeably. Likewise, if I toggle it back on, the brightness I’m accustomed to comes back. Is this normal? What can I do to retain the brightness I have with the setting on? Thanks again!
Interesting thing I found is when Location-based suggestions is on, every time you open the app switcher the location arrow at the status bar appears. Only way to make it stop appearing when you switch apps is disabling this location service. Find my phone on the other hand turns on every time you turn on the screen and when the screen is on it polls location every 3-5 minutes. Not saying you should turn this off though. I keep Find my phone in case I lose it.
I literally have everything off aside from “find my” and “setting time zone” I left on “system customization” just cause I mess with a lot of stuff plus there is no arrow by it ever. The ones that show if it’s been used recently or in the past 24 hours. Literally only 3 things on 😂
Doesn’t „system customization“ affect the auto dark mode and optimized battery charging? I’ve also enabled compass calibration because without it I can’t use apps like Flightradar24, weather radars and many others like I want. Thanks for the great video again.
Already had most of these off from an older video from y’all, but it’s always good tp double check! Also, loving the trees in the background! They look a little familiar 😂
Is it crazy that when you started this video, I had everything turned off except for 3 items: emergency calls & sos; find my phone and networking & wireless! Thanks for letting me know about the third one, who knew I didn’t even need that one turned on!
I have very much enjoyed watching these videos. You are correct and I had to keep stopping the video in order to keep up. I did notice a few of the idea you spoke about were not on my phone. Examples: location, location Services and System Services. There could be more however these are the ones I wrote down I also appreciate you showing samples as I am very visual and just talking would never work for me I have IPhone 14 Bob M
Since following the advice of this video, now my phone keeps telling me that the phone that I have in my hand has been "left behind" at a previous location. Any advice as to which setting might be causing such a weird problem?
I use google maps as it matched my dash-cam. Already had everything you had marked to switch off “off” LOL. TVM great vlog. Best wishes from Adelaide; South Australia🇦🇺💐
I still use Google. Apple Maps changed my route and I didn’t know it, ended up going a way I didn’t need to go. Google will change it too, just wish they had an option to turn that feature off.
If you turn off network and Wi-Fi, can you still be alerted if there’s an air tag near you since it stop sharing the location? I would want to still be notified if there was an unwanted air tag near me.
LOCATION BASED ALERTS - I read that it can be used to find a lot iphone? Is that true and should I leave this option turned ON so I can find my lost phone?
After watching this video I turned on the location indicator for system services. So even after turning off most of the prompts mentioned in the video when ever I unlock my device and WhatsApp is open then I see the little location icon at the top indicating something is using my location, but I have turned off location permission permanently for WhatsApp.
If you have Apple Watch or AirTags precision finder is worst and takes much more time to locate. Don’t disable the stuff he talked, a lot of apps and functions on the iPhone will break and behave badly. Don’t want a iPhone to do that, don’t use it buy android.
Which location settings (or other settings in general) are have to be enabled so that unwanted/unknown AirTag tracking is working? Call me paranoid, but I want to turn off as many location tracking settings as possible, and still want to be notified of unwanted AirTags tracking me.
Hello, I took your advice/suggestions however now my voice to text dictation does not work on native apps or others. Can you suggest what to toggle back on?
Clear and useful presentation. I have a question, though: Aren't these the same services that can be used to locate missing people, accidents, lost hikers, the location of criminals, etc. I just want to make sure we're not shooting ourselves in our collective foot. There are trade-offs to complete privacy.
I agree with your sentiment but I can’t imagine any of the services we talk about in this video having any effect on the important human circumstances you mentioned. We always say to leave Emergency Calls & SOS on. None of these settings have an effect on law enforcement’s ability to do their important jobs. 🙏
It wasn’t clear to me if I should turn on or off the status bar icon switch. Could you clarify for me please thanks. I am turning off everything you recommend by the way
Hello David. Incredibly informative video. Many, many thanks! I turned off as per your suggestions, (thank you by the way for expressing the logical and practical reasoning behind each one). I am however a little leary about turning off the Routing & Traffic. I resonate with your reason to switch it off, however even if “Apple” is using my location information, I think perhaps being alerted to a traffic issue which ‘might’ advise me about an accident or road work being done may / could be to my advantage. I would really like some feedback on my comment, from yourself and/or your viewers if possible. Avid subscriber from Canada. Merci David. 🇨🇦
The system services is suddenly using a lot of my cellular data. If I turn these off will it stop? The document and sync took 2.8gb within an hour and I wasn’t on my phone! Please if anyone can help❤️
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How many of these did you know about? Let us know in the comments below!
All but two of them - because I’ve watched your previous videos. 👍🏻
I didn’t know thanks for sharing
know about? all I know is it has been previously suggested i turn these off, so all of mine were off. There are some services I use in settings I have left on, contrary to prior suggestions. Apparently, I accepted the explanations of all these covered today, cause they were all off. Yeah @PayetteForward!
@@Druidh31 Me too. 👍
I've followed your earlier suggestions. I have even fewer Location System Services enabled than the ones you showed here. Nice that the update to iOS 16.6 didn't reenable any.
My poor tired XsMax is down to 82% battery capacity. I'm holding out until September to decide whether to get an iPhone 15 or to replace the battery. $80 or >$1,000? The iPhone 15 had better be pretty special to be worth that much to me.
Awesome video! Every iPhone user deserves this honest breakdown. Significant locations is also used for backtrack in the compass app to help find your way back if you haven’t set waypoints.
You can use that without having Significant Locations turned on. It’s how I have my Watch Ultra set up.
Your recommendations for what to turn on and/or off are good enough for me...but this deep dive was very comprehensive and informative. Thank you!
Great video easy to follow when it’s all in one setting, no jumping around. Thanks
Thank you for continuing to put the informed in "informed consent"!
Better than putting the "con" in it 😂. But thank you, seriously. We try!
I think it's funny that people think that just because you told your phone not to track you . That your phone actually isn't tracking you .
Facts
You can do all these still get tracked
better than nothing but yeah if you have an iphone you will always be tracked
I think the settings are all placebo in order to make us feel like we’re in control lol.
True. What’s needed is a Faraday bag when you go out - unless you’re one of those people who can’t live without switching a phone off for a few hours.
Finally! A video about these specific services and how important it is to turn these off. Nobody else on TH-cam has these videos and I appreciate these video so much. Great work!
The ONLY one I have have on is find my phone it has been that way for over an entire year. When I first subscribed to your channel. My iphone 13 battery is still at 97% after 1 1/2 years in service. And I am a TH-cam moderator using my IPhone13 exclusively. I also have an Iphone 7plus that I use as well, but no longer for moderating. I use it for calls and texts it has served me well since 2016. I had the battery replaced at 79% (4 months ago) however the Capacitative screen is about worn out. Thank you for all the tips and tricks You are appreciated very much
I could say a lot, but it would just all boil down to my gratitude. Again, thank you.
Thanks so much, Kaden. It means a lot!
Terrific as always. You are spot on. We don’t want to be tracked. Thanks for the presentation and the education!
Just found you guys while surfing I am new to iPhone because I'm a longtime Android guy...
You channel is amazing, I have subscribed and will be binge-watching you guys this weekend!!!!
System customisation affects Night Shift, which turns your screen to a more yellow-ish tint after sundown to limit it's affect on sleep.
I don't know however if night shift would be the only affected function.
I’ve had 95% of these turned off as I’ve watched your videos over the years. Emergency SOS and Find my phone are the only 2 I have turned on
Thanks for the tips! Love the videos you guys make! Got Really shocked because at the significant locations I got 346 records in less than 2 months 😱
Over 100 in a week…
I recently started using Apple Maps because I moved to a different state and my new address is ONLY found on Apple Maps. It’s NOT on Google Maps or Mapquest or anywhere else (yet).
Only a few minutes in and I absolutely love this video . Sooo useful information.
I just finished this video. I want to thank you I appreciate this.
As I already have almost all turned off I’ll be very grateful if you could tell me, which ones I should have in. Thanks
What about significant locations and optimised battery charging? Does it work without significant locations disabled?
Payette Foward -- David and David -- you guys are a National Treasure! LOVE your videos. Thank you. THANK YOU!!!!!🏆
Will optimized battery charging stopped working when significant locations turned off?
So happy you made an updated version of this!! Thank you! I have a question: when I disable Networking & Wireless, my screen immediately dims noticeably. Likewise, if I toggle it back on, the brightness I’m accustomed to comes back. Is this normal? What can I do to retain the brightness I have with the setting on? Thanks again!
That doesn’t make much sense, dis you fix it?
Interesting thing I found is when Location-based suggestions is on, every time you open the app switcher the location arrow at the status bar appears. Only way to make it stop appearing when you switch apps is disabling this location service. Find my phone on the other hand turns on every time you turn on the screen and when the screen is on it polls location every 3-5 minutes. Not saying you should turn this off though. I keep Find my phone in case I lose it.
I literally have everything off aside from “find my” and “setting time zone” I left on “system customization” just cause I mess with a lot of stuff plus there is no arrow by it ever. The ones that show if it’s been used recently or in the past 24 hours. Literally only 3 things on 😂
The checkin feature is great for kids or single woman going on a date or traveling alone ect. Not unless.
Does leaving the location based alerts/suggestions on work if you’re running a VPN?
Doesn’t „system customization“ affect the auto dark mode and optimized battery charging? I’ve also enabled compass calibration because without it I can’t use apps like Flightradar24, weather radars and many others like I want. Thanks for the great video again.
I regularly watch your videos. Learned some new stuff.
Already had most of these off from an older video from y’all, but it’s always good tp double check!
Also, loving the trees in the background! They look a little familiar 😂
Thank you, brilliant as always.
Thanks!
I do use Apple Maps and have for years. Also have used Waze for traffic routing information.
None! I’m so glad I found you guys!
Hi there 👋 4:23 Does Significant Location option effect optimise battery charging? Does this degrade battery life? Love ❤ from India 🇮🇳
These guys really know their stuff 👌
Is it crazy that when you started this video, I had everything turned off except for 3 items: emergency calls & sos; find my phone and networking & wireless! Thanks for letting me know about the third one, who knew I didn’t even need that one turned on!
Same here! We must have both watched the same video in the past telling us what to turn off!
Have you had any issues with that third option being off?
@@XDMIIIIIIIII so far, I haven’t had any problems.
@@lindavista1776 cheers, merry Christmas pal
It tracked 245 records in the last week I’ve had this new phone in significant locations
I have very much enjoyed watching these videos. You are correct and I had to keep stopping the video in order to keep up. I did notice a few of the idea you spoke about were not on my phone. Examples: location, location Services and System Services. There could be more however these are the ones I wrote down
I also appreciate you showing samples as I am very visual and just talking would never work for me
I have IPhone 14
Bob M
Since following the advice of this video, now my phone keeps telling me that the phone that I have in my hand has been "left behind" at a previous location. Any advice as to which setting might be causing such a weird problem?
Share my location in system and services
How do I find system preferences on a iPhone 14 or 15?
I use google maps as it matched my dash-cam. Already had everything you had marked to switch off “off” LOL. TVM great vlog. Best wishes from Adelaide; South Australia🇦🇺💐
Problem is some of these settings stop the optimised charging from working for some reason
I permanently keep my location off always
Great video! I did not know many of these. But i got a little lost when you spoke about System Customization. I can't find it.
I have turned off everything you showed,but one thing if my phone is lost will find my device works properly?
A lot of those settings are not available in here in the U.K. and the ones that were I already had switched off.
Thank you so much for this! You're so helpful with these kinds of vidoes
Awesome video ! This is why I love my phones jailbroken lol
What about the setting that says Share My Location should I leave it on or off? Will this affect find my iPhone?
I still use Google. Apple Maps changed my route and I didn’t know it, ended up going a way I didn’t need to go. Google will change it too, just wish they had an option to turn that feature off.
Awesome video
Thank you for this informative information. Good job.
Thanks so much, Archie!
Thank you!
If you turn off network and Wi-Fi, can you still be alerted if there’s an air tag near you since it stop sharing the location?
I would want to still be notified if there was an unwanted air tag near me.
🤩👏👏👏 Hey David, Great & helpful advice!!! I didn’t know about any of these! Thanks bunches!
I did not know any of this, thank you❤
LOCATION BASED ALERTS - I read that it can be used to find a lot iphone?
Is that true and should I leave this option turned ON so I can find my lost phone?
I would also appreciate a video on iPad Pro. Thanks
great info . thanks for sharing.
Useful video ur big fan from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
After watching this video I turned on the location indicator for system services. So even after turning off most of the prompts mentioned in the video when ever I unlock my device and WhatsApp is open then I see the little location icon at the top indicating something is using my location, but I have turned off location permission permanently for WhatsApp.
Thanks for the lessons!
"Networking & Wireless": Does turning it off diminish AirTag functionality? Thank you
It will only affect the arrow you see when using the find my app but you’ll still be able to track the distance the AirTag is from you!
How can I show date on the status bar next to the time without using an app or using a “trusted” app?
Good morning, when ever I am talking on the phone I notice a red light in the top right hand corner. Do you know what that light indicates??
Thanks very informative
Thank you! Love your information 😊
Just like turning your phone off .... How do you know it's really off I mean you can't even take the battery out
I turned off significant locations everytime, but it keeps turning on automatically. Do you think it has something relates to left behind feature ?
"Significant Locations could not be cleared."
Whoaaa!??
I’m not seeing anything under Privacy & Security that I can change. The icons you have, I do not. iPhone 8, latest iOS
Found it in a different screen.
Hi my iphone 12 pro battery is at 88% but it is giving me 4 hours on screen on full charge is it good or should i go for a replacement
Maybe because my iPhone is old; I don’t have most of those features. Mine is an 8+
Wait, so it’s good to have the Status Bar icon “On”? I don’t get that one. 🤔
Thanks!
Quick Question. If you disable Networking and Wireless Does that affect Wifi Bluetooth and Ultra Wideband from working properly?
If you have Apple Watch or AirTags precision finder is worst and takes much more time to locate. Don’t disable the stuff he talked, a lot of apps and functions on the iPhone will break and behave badly. Don’t want a iPhone to do that, don’t use it buy android.
@@Paranoidhitbut i don’t have any other apple devices other than my iPhone, so can I turn this off?
Which location settings (or other settings in general) are have to be enabled so that unwanted/unknown AirTag tracking is working?
Call me paranoid, but I want to turn off as many location tracking settings as possible, and still want to be notified of unwanted AirTags tracking me.
When I off system customization 10:58 the night shift automatically off(sunrise and sunset) option .
My system services are enabled and can’t make changes help
Hello, I took your advice/suggestions however now my voice to text dictation does not work on native apps or others. Can you suggest what to toggle back on?
Great video. In addition to Setting Time Zone, are there other switches to turn on for going outside of the country?
Why don’t just advise what to keep on/enabled?
How do you turn off pictures on maps?
Can I shut off find my phone or Wi-Fi
Clear and useful presentation. I have a question, though: Aren't these the same services that can be used to locate missing people, accidents, lost hikers, the location of criminals, etc. I just want to make sure we're not shooting ourselves in our collective foot. There are trade-offs to complete privacy.
I agree with your sentiment but I can’t imagine any of the services we talk about in this video having any effect on the important human circumstances you mentioned. We always say to leave Emergency Calls & SOS on. None of these settings have an effect on law enforcement’s ability to do their important jobs. 🙏
Hey, in the latest ios 17 update they are some more new system services, could you go through them?
I don’t have check in
Status Bar Icon: Sorry I did not catch it. Beginning 8:24, is the advice to turn "off" the status bar icon?
Our advice is to turn it on if you want to be informed of when Apple is tracking your location! Apologies if it wasn’t immediately clear!
thanks so much! 📲
I have an iPhone 14 pro and I don’t even have cell network search. Does it depend what country or network provider you’re using?
Yes
"Apple cares about your protection and safety, they even make sure you're not being tracked"
5:30 How did you get to the New Automation page? I have the Iphone 13 pro max 1 TB and am not seeing it?
I am not even able to access my system services and turn off or on help !
It wasn’t clear to me if I should turn on or off the status bar icon switch. Could you clarify for me please thanks. I am turning off everything you recommend by the way
Hi there! It’s off by default, we recommend you keep it on if you want a more finely tuned way of knowing when your location is being used!
-Z
In India it shows Mobile network search instead of cell network search. I have disabled it but both are same right??
Sounds the same to me! I’d say give it a go and turn it off and if you experience any oddities turn it back on!
wow thank you, I turned everything ON after your video
Thank you!!!!!!
I love these videos.
I have ALL turned off. iPhone runs better and no app is bothering. Maps needs to have precise location on
Cool Tips ❤
Hello David. Incredibly informative video. Many, many thanks! I turned off as per your suggestions, (thank you by the way for expressing the logical and practical reasoning behind each one). I am however a little leary about turning off the Routing & Traffic. I resonate with your reason to switch it off, however even if “Apple” is using my location information, I think perhaps being alerted to a traffic issue which ‘might’ advise me about an accident or road work being done may / could be to my advantage. I would really like some feedback on my comment, from yourself and/or your viewers if possible. Avid subscriber from Canada. Merci David. 🇨🇦
The system services is suddenly using a lot of my cellular data. If I turn these off will it stop?
The document and sync took 2.8gb within an hour and I wasn’t on my phone!
Please if anyone can help❤️