Turn Off These iPhone SYSTEM SERVICES Now! [Ultimate Guide]

[@mike_r0ph0ne]

After switching back again to an iPhone 15 pro (last I had was iPhone 8) after happily enjoying high-end Android devices, I appreciate any hints, recommendations or best practices to make the iPhone/IOS experience less painful and actually enjoyable. Thanks for your content!

[@damiencastro2064]

Thanks!

[@jerryking3208]

Thank you very much for the great info. At 75, this stuff is like a foreign language to me but you make it understandable. I never know whether to do an update or just leave it alone. Our motto growing up on a farm was, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

[@WaveformV1.0]

Good practice to use fake age.

[@billallen3696]

@@WaveformV1.0 And you know this how? I happen to be 72 and couldn't agree more. What is your "fake" age?"

[@WaveformV1.0]

@@billallen3696 I didn’t know you were using a fake age I was simply making the suggestion. Next time I will be more clear, cheers

[@Immortal-market]

I am a cybersecurity professional and it’s done purposefully to overwhelm the elderly population

[@davidjones8043]

I’m 32 and this is all foreign sounding to me as well

[@alisonbuckland6364]

Thank you for having the full transcript, it helped to get back on track when I got a little lost.

[@catherinejacobs4801]

Thank you so much! I updated my phone a few weeks ago, and have had to recharge my phone CONSTANTLY! I thought I was going crazy. “What’s up with this battery?” Now I know!

[@gregoryforrest8970]

Can you divert yourself if you have say a VPN service with VPN on different location than your currently are.

[@jroc8880]

You guys are the only one I trust for updates on my iPhone

[@prorich9805]

Ok , I systematically followed I have liked all you videos and systematically turned off your suggested battery saving items as they made sense to me. BUT A few days later I went to use my trusted focus Do Not Disturb and it did not display anymore the option “until I leave this Location”. (sure I still had off “for one hour” or “until this evening” but not the one I use ) I was tearing my hair out until I thought of this video. I went back to your video and retraced my steps. The #1 step was to Turn off “ Alerts & Shortcuts Automations” so I turned it back on and Bingo!!! It worked, the disappearing option in the Focus DND was added back! I realize the aim of this video was to save battery life but some items may have more to them than meets the eye and now I am nervous as what other things in my phone will be affected. Thought you would want to know.

[@SergSpace]

Yep! You wanna save the battery life - turn off you phone.

[@kwalex6882]

The point of this video is to explain what each of the system services mean and it’s up for you to decide if you use those features or not. If you don’t, you migjt aswell turn it off so you won’t waste battery.

[@shhhlunchtime9742]

yes thats good and all but How much battery is being saved? Like can we get something less vague than "save some battery live" 1%? 5%? 25%?

[@victoriasotelo4543]

Thank you for what you do, as a Psychologist I struggle to comprehend the authenticity of the word “genius” when it would be “genius” to allow me to know what my phone does clearly and STOP updating a supposedly brilliant device so frequently then complicating HOW I USE MY OWN PHONE you are great thank you !

[@v3n0s]

Also significant locations are used a) to show where is your car parked on apple maps and b) to make optimised charging work…

[@TheRealEvol]

Incorrect. System Customization is required for optimized charging, not significant locations

[@steveh222]

Thank you David for keeping us all updated, great channel

[@twokatmew]

Great video, but I ended up turning “alerts & shortcuts automations” back on. I like to use Focus DND “till I leave this location,” and turning this setting off removed that. Thx!

[@StewartMidwinter]

I'm not familiar with your channel and just happened to stumble across this video and decided to watch it. Very useful! My iPhone 11 Pro Max battery life is not what it used to be as the battery health is at only 85% now. I followed all your suggestions and hope to see, some improvement in my Battery life.

[@testingtime7780]

How is the improvement ?

[@cangdetnetcang]

how was your experience?

[@StewartMidwinter]

@@testingtime7780 it's hard to say exactly, perhaps 30 minutes more per day?

[@hbe1630]

Thank you, I'm not that tech savvy & your videos are a great help as always! 😃

[@alabemos]

I would love to see a video about what app store privacy issues--what each of the different things under "data linked to you" means, for example, that app devs are collecting and if those things are obligatory or can be turned off once you have the apps

[@juliette-mansour]

Amazing!!! Thank you so much. Question: when Apple pushes another version out do all these settings get reset?

[@phubblewubbphubblewubb]

I am amazed mine still works, I've disabled just about everything !!

[@chrismc8000]

Am in my seventies, am not a “techie”, and so depend on your advice. Thank you. A warning came up in my iPhone that said that my phone was hacked and I am being watched, or something like that. A orangeish yellow dot appears above the Wi-Fi fan when using my cell phone.

[@Marianne.Stakem]

A fellow “oldie but goodie” I’m also not a techie! But I’m determined to become one! I recently had an android cyber attack, which eventually destroyed my phone and my PC. So I purchased an IPhone, I’m making it a point to educate myself on all things iPhone! Good luck to you

[@kenb429]

Question: Is there a way to stop Iphone Health from accessing my contacts? I don't use it and all my settings are disabled. I have no Health data. Seems like it's a background app that could be compromised. At the very least, it's using battery to check my apps when I don't have any Emergency contacts listed.

[@reggie9257]

This is a great video and I would like to save it so that I can refer to it again later, but it looks like the save feature is missing??

[@cedrickalvarado]

Don’t you need all these on tho for your home to function right ? Like what if I turn them off ? Will it no longer function like it’s supposed to or ?

[@jamesshahabi5187]

Thank you so much for such a good informations. I have an iPhone 14 and I have a very big problem with my map and GPS because my GOS gets lost every 20 minutes when I am using maps and I did try everything you can name it and my wife also has the same issue. Do you have any idea about it?

[@EyesOfByes]

6:49 Hmmm... Too bad UWB chip depends on that, right?

[@matthewelerick648]

Your right it does

[@berthamiles6507]

I will watch more of your videos. I don't know what service the iPhone uses with photos but I do like it saving the location of where I took the photo and when. What controls that? Did I just turn that off with one of the buttons you suggested to turn off?

[@nancyzehr3679]

can you do this for android? afyer 4 yrs i now have about 200 system apps despite regular weeding

[@PeterEmery]

Another reason to leave the Compass Calibration setting on is that if toggled offthe Compass app on an associated Apple Watch will NOT work.

[@ColinsCity]

I always have the location services turned off unless the app tells me to turn it on and then i turn it off after using the app, i wonder if i'm getting the best battery saving from doing this? I have an iPhone X with 87% capacity battery and it always lasts a full day on 4G connectivity, sometimes i don't even need to charge it during the night, just in the morning when i wake up.

[@stephanielerner3886]

Love your videos. My under my WIFI name it says Privacy Warning. How do I get rid of that. Thank you!!

[@Twinkle-top]

On the YT iphone app the small thumbnail looks like the prez is telling you to turn off system services. Tks for the help, i turned off a few items.

[@Veede0]

Thanks for this video. Question: if we turn off the “Cell Network Search”and “Networking & Wireless” Location Services will our devices have to lean on the GPS more to get a precise location for us?

[@jasmeetsethi4699]

Loved your video Sir. Just one query - routing & traffic will impact Google Maps? Or is it only linked to Apple Maps? On daily basis i have to use Google Maps.

[@jewlen9274]

Thank you so much for your video & explaining ea item. I always follow your suggestions (for yrs) for setting the battery & system services as I trust you know what yer talking about. I have 1 ?, Under system services-significant locations (which I do have enabled), Records.. I tap on Summary 0f 77 records & nothing happens. I am unable to view any of the records. I can only see the "recent records." Why is this & how do I view the past records??. Seems to me I used to be able to view them. TY

[@A7LTEGugle]

Hi! Can you do one on androids?? I hate all these apps that have"permissiin" to basically scan me 24/7. Like Google Play Services etc. But if you disable, it says phone May not work right.

[@NickBerry-870]

Does the motion calibration and distance mess with steps apps that count steps or anything like that?

[@tarekmoustafa8963]

Please, any sittings for sound turn on when i am touching any thing on my iphone 15 pro screen

[@alex-xf3jj]

Great Video, however I turned all these off, and now google maps wont work? Any ideas? Also turned them all back on again, and still doesnt work, even after restarting my phone. Update 1: maps is back but its accuracy is 15km. I turned location services off completely, them back on. Update 2: Gone again, after couple mins. Waze is telling me theirs no gps reception. Update 3: No luck after 20mins faffing around. Going for a walk, thinking it may be because I'm indoors. Even though Ive done a speed test and data is good. Update 4: Its back! - went for a walk, and came back after about 5mins. Now I have kept all system services on, because I don't want to have to go through all that again. but could you help with which of these would have caused this?

[@johnchandajr6452]

Good video. Question What about in app web browsing

[@CP-wy9el]

What if your phone is lost, wouldn't significant locations be useful to track your lost phone?

[@Ohhighpockets]

I kept switching all the kits or whatever off. Each update had to go switch off new ones. No idea what tbey were for, but caused no issue. Then last time there must have suddenly been o e I needed because was not able to use web browser on Safari lol. Thank you for this info.

[@fotograficmaniac]

Hey, thanks for your great video. But I dont have the "cell network search" setting in my list ? any suggestions ?

[@fbs1917]

Recently my iphone disconnects with this phone has calling restrictions. I speak to the same person & after awhile it disconnects?? Where can I turn this feature off? Great videos like your channel.

[@joshoneill8683]

Can you do video which turns off these backups apps backups size down?

[@guym458]

I have a question, "Satellite Connection" under Location Services > System Services, It is active in the background and tracking location but for what purpose? Isn't it only supposed to be active when an SOS Call is made? Is there any negative adverse effect to turning "Satellite Connection" off under that system services menu other than the obvious one that sattelite calling wont be available in case of an emergency? "Satellite Connection" isn't used to improve GPS for apps such as Google Maps or Waze, Correct?

[@zk513]

Thanks for the clear, detailed explanation. I'm curious whether this will have any positive effect on my SE 2020 (battery replaced recently, health 97%, less than average usage => 16-17 hours battery life).

[@ew3902]

Thank you so much for your logical and understandable instructions to make us safer and have longer battery life.

[@MrOscar5690]

I need to know hall the changes improve battery life.. is this extra 10 mins? Or like over an hour

[@vichardman61]

Can you make a video of the device management

[@jimmyd277]

I have to say you guys have the best videos on information for iPhones Very professional and entertaining at the same time. Keep up the good work I look forward to other videos.

[@atimos187]

Always great updates for our iPhone 📱 thank you ✌🏽🇦🇺

[@nataliapolina3111]

I was trying to find more info about iCloud, but find this video. Oh, I am so happy I did. Super helpful

[@phillipmarlowe0525]

Help please. My i phone doesn’t ring sometimes. I got a call it rang. About 1/2 hour later another call from a different number no ringing. Both numbers were not in my contacts.

[@KasraParanoia]

alerts and shortcuts auto is always turned off for me but it always shows a grey arrow, I must say that my emergency contacts and medical ID are not setup as I heard that setting may influence. Can you please asdvise why is that grey arrow always on? :(

[@kaziashfaqulhuq8765]

There is a new one called in-app web browsing. Should that be on?

[@richiesplay7379]

Thank you. As someone new to the iPhone I found it quite useful.

[@patrickvosloo8217]

Since I I deactivated the services you mention my the location service icon is showin waaaay more often and my battery doesnt even last a day anymore!!??

[@xanderytube]

does turning off share my location affect the find my phone app?

[@blockisle9]

Does any of these thing effect screen time? I turn on share across all devices on all devices and it does not work?

[@brandonsmith6962]

Yes your phone will not work correctly if you turn these off

[@mercurius8540]

Isn’t it recommended that you keep significant locations, location services and system customization on for optimized charging to work? Please correct me if I’m wrong because when i turned the significant locations off i stopped getting the notification for optimized charging

[@marinaalex0510]

For optimized charging to work you need to have the "significant locations" be turned on. Or, you could just choose "80% limit" in charging optimization, that if 80% will get you through your day

[@richard5981]

I need some clarification in one of your videos you said, optimize battery should be turned off alone with system, customization and significant locations but at the same time in this video, you recommend system customization be turned on, and it works with battery optimization but doesn’t that mean we need to turn on system customizations in order for optimize battery to work please clarify

[@jasmeetsethi4699]

Exactly. Pls clarify

[@GabrielGarcia-iu1jh]

I have done everything but I can’t get my iPhone 11 Pro to zoom out on camera mode to .5 is there anything I can do to fix that?

[@AuryuKein-xu4yy]

Emergency services activates Uber and a Lyft to call emergency contacts also! I was walking not in any rideshsre oops accident.. a dispatcher calls then my Uber Lyft app opened and says calling my brother in another state now WHAT!and I couldn’t stop it I just shut my phone completely off

What about the software update that is finishing my mobile data?

[@phillipmarlowe0525]

I heard the IOS 17 and newer versions share contacts with other IPhone devices just by being in close proximity of each other. Is this true? If so how do you disable it? I not yet updated to IOS 17.

[@DebbieBorth]

Thank you for this information. However, my phone is still running very hot. I guess I need to look further into what's going on.

[@salvadorvinalsuya1667]

Really works. I have noticed considerable longer battery life with these changes!

[@anupnambiar9931]

How about the 3rd layer?? I couldn’t see the cube final layer!!

[@marcdb1412]

Hello and thank you for the update. I have a i7, still working with an iOS 15.8.1. I noticed that few features are missing compared to yours on the screen. I followed your advice. I'll see what happen next. Cheers.

[@Agitated_Hamster]

Question: I turned on Status Bar Icon, and the icon appeared but the disabled Suggestions & Search feature has a purple arrow icon. Doesn't that mean its using my location, but its off?

[@Findmylimit]

You remind me of one of those spy kid robots after being turned good. This was your decided purpose. Thank you

[@jonathanbaldwin2195]

I only have 2 of these settings on find my I phone sos calls

[@roccobarone9]

Love your videos! always straight to the point! Thanks a lot! Getting two days battery life with my IP14 PM thanks to yours awesome tips!

[@user-xn3jk3hg4h]

Doesn’t the “networking & wireless” help finding my iphone when lost as well as help finding other people’s lost iphones???

[@polisvaritimiadis3429]

Hello, i have the iPad 7gen, i have i problem with the gps, each time when i am driving the iPad isn't able to locate my position, but when i am not driving it works and finds the position. it has the17.2 version of iPadOS, is any solution?

[@lunar_metal]

Regarding Device management, if that’s turned off, does it affect family screen time applications?

[@raraandhika2527]

in case you missed it, according to apple, you can't use optimize battery charging when significant location is turned off

[@lrnfjelo8285]

What settings could that be?

[@TranNha279]

Yes

[@TheRealEvol]

Incorrect. Need “system customization” on, not significant locations

[@MISSjessicaNB1]

@payetteforward How do I reverse the location settings?!? I can’t even turn location on anymore no matter what app.

[@lucesitabenitezdecorzo7474]

My phone can Text and I am able to use internet. But I am no longer able to call or receive calls. The sims card is excelent. Anything I have may have done wrong?

[@sandeepchhabra9080]

Accidentally reached and opened . And found an excellent video - content , delivery and dialect all good for variety of global regions. Thank you

[@mprudhon]

Hello….i find I can’t drop a pin when I hike if I have “Significant Locations” turned off… is that true?

[@diverbob8]

Referring to the Compass Calibration entry, on my apple watch, the compass was going around in red circles until I turned this on. I just now turned it off and my watch compass dies again. I therefore am leaving it ON since I use the compass on my watch frequently. Thanks so much for this post, by the way...Great Job!

[@MA-vr7ht]

But there are things that wont work if I turn off location like find my phone or tracking someone or finding something near me.

[@vermontmike9800]

I don’t have Wi-Fi calling toggle on mine.

[@rdspam]

0:45 my 17.2.1 device says Alerts & Shortcuts Automations, and has no Location-Based Alerts.

[@BrendaKAesoph]

Is it possible to change the camera settings on my iPhone 15 pro max prior to doing a FB Live broadcast. They just never look good . We do most of them outside and those colors look awful .

[@annafraley5388]

The BEST one of ALL the I-14+ videos we’ve watched so far.!!

[@capnwhatever]

hey! i have an iphone 13, which option is better in the camera settings? high efficiency vs most compatible?

[@antoineolver7222]

High efficiency.

[@susanlisson7066]

Would the ‘Share My Location’ setting be useful when using Uber? I recently tried to call an Uber and had problems with it. I ended up having to phone a regular taxi. Just going through my phone while this video played I noticed it is turned off. Is this why they couldn’t find me on the Uber app?

[@TSixSix]

I follow this channel exclusively on all my iPhone updates 😅

[@yinyangphoenix]

Same

[@yaimamess1111]

Same

[@engbne510]

Me too

[@PaulFagan]

Yes! Brilliant

[@magikal_8591]

Yes 🙌… Same Here 🙋🏻‍♀️👍🏼

[@horaceragin7133]

Thank you very much. I have had an iPhone for about 10 years or so. Now I bought the iPhone 15 pro max on June 15,2024 and I'm getting to more and more feathers, thank you very much

[@dougiebrown9318]

I’ve only got an iPhone 6 which I’ve had for 4 years now, it’s good enough for me & I live in the U.K. some of the icons shown are not available in my settings, but have turned off the ones mentioned.. My battery life has worsened considerably over this time, I went to bed last night with full charge & this morning it was down to around 50 % Hopefully with these changes battery life will improve..

[@kissofjudaz]

The latest update ftom Appke is 17.2.1, yet you say to update to 17.3?

[@cheperecinos409]

Will this by any chance make your iphone slower or decrease it's performance or make it less responsive in any way?

[@dorothythompson8139]

Thanks very much David. I just upgraded to an iPhone 15 Plus so this video is extremely helpful. My phone didn't have the Cell Network Search you mentioned so I'm wondering if it's only an US based feature? Thanks again. Love your very helpful videos!

[@RobertFunkhouser-t3g]

I followed this and when I done everything he did when I reopened my phone my Face ID stopped working maybe want to add this disclaimer on what you are turning on or off

[@CoraG-Adventures]

Turned off 12 of them, now I’ll see how much my battery life is saved. 7/27/23 I’ll return back next week with my analysis of how helpful.

[@TranNha279]

6/9/2024 ???

[@FIatts]

Thanks for the update!

[@jrsanchez6603]

Dude you are like that one cool science teacher I had in high school who took time to explain every part of that poor frog we dissected in class.

[@twylitegotbannedtwice3411]

Do you cover I pad videos? Thank you Sir.

[@bily4566]

I turned the camera light off so when I go to flash light turn it on the light doesn’t turn on but the light still works because I down loaded a flash light and it comes on some where I can turn the light back on but I forgot

[@NoName-qk9fw]

I have iOS 17.4.1. That update apparently has removed the WIFI button choice you turned off. Is it somewhere else?? Thanks in advance.