Never ever turn off these 5 iPhone settings -2021

Date and time

What? Date and time could break your iPhone? Yes, because it’s the way that your iPhone handles security. Security certificates online, your mail app, and apps, all use the date and time, the current date and time to check to see if the security certificate is valid. If it’s valid, it works. If it’s not valid, it just doesn’t work and it won’t even tell you why. So make sure you set this up correctly.

How to set Dates and Times automatically on iPhone?

Settings >> General >>Date and Time >>Set Automatically

Let’s start with the settings app. Scroll down and tap General and then tap date and time.

Yeah, so just leave that set automatically switch turned on. That is what you should do, When you turn the switch off, as I just said, a lot of different things can break and you get no notification of it. No notification. It’s not like it’s so you have the wrong time set to cause the phone doesn’t know. You’re in charge of what time it is on your phone.

Cross-site tracking

Next, let’s talk about preventing cross-site tracking.

Why should we never turn this one-off? – Cross-site tracking means that when you’re on a website in Safari if you go to a different website, that first website can track you across all the other websites. So usually these websites have a tracking pixel. Google does it. Facebook does it. We do it. Everybody does it! – Yeah, but if you don’t want that to happen if you don’t wanna see ads for Airbnb on CNN or vice versa, turn this off.

How to turn on prevent cross-site tracking in iphone ?

Settings>>Safari>>Prevent Cross-site Tracking, Block All Cookies,Fraudental Web Warnings

Get back to Settings and scroll down to find safari tap it and find prevent cross-site tracking and turn it on. If you like you can also turn Block cookies and Fraudental website warning it will make you more secure. It will warn you from visiting scam /fraudulent sites.

Protect mail activity

Remember the tracking behavior we talked about before. Well, they can be in your mail app too. Usually, it’s a hidden pixel or an image, like one by one pixel. That’s how they do it. So that the image loads in your email app that you don’t see cause it’s only one pixel, but then Facebook knows that that image loaded because it was loaded from their servers. And so does Google and all these other places. So that’s how they track you. This loads your mail through a proxy, through Apple servers so they don’t know that you opened it.

Especially if you sign up for an email list and maybe they wanna sell that email list to somebody else, and then all of a sudden, if they have all this information about you, you might start getting a ton of emails from places you’ve never heard of, places you never signed up for. And it just fills up your inbox with spam. I get emails all the time from people. All it takes is one company to sell the list. And I don’t know if this is going to solve all those problems, but it’s a step in the right direction.

How do I turn on email privacy protection on iOS 15?

Settings >> Mail >> Privacy Protection >> Protect mail

Let’s go back to the main page of the settings app again. Let’s tap on mail next, and a new iOS 15 set here privacy protection. Tap on that. Protect mail activity, leave this switch on.

System services

Next, we’re gonna talk about some system services.

If you’re in an emergency, you want them to be able to know where you are. Leave this on. Find my iPhone.if you lose your iPhone, you can find it by leaving this one on. Yeah, and share my location, maybe you have a kid and they get off the bus at 3:00 and you have to work till 5:00 and you wanna make sure that they got off the bus okay. Make sure to share my location is turned on their phone. You can confirm that they did get off the bus. – Right, or at least their phone did.

How to turn on finding my iphone and SOS ?

Privacy >> Location Services >>System Services >>Emergency Calls And Sos>> Find My Phone

Let’s go back to the main page of the setting’s app. Tap on privacy, tap location services tap on.

Come down to system services. We’ve got a lot of switches turned off here.

But for now, why are we leaving on emergency calls and SOS and finding my iPhone?

Why are we leaving these switches on? Well, SMS is just text messaging. It should say like send text messages. Cause if you turn this off, you’re not going to get text messages. MMS, back in the day, 2002, we were sending picture messages.

If you have a friend with an Android phone and they send you a picture, it’s not going to come through unless MMS messaging is turned on. Same thing with group messaging. You’re not going to be able to get group texts. However, I guess maybe you would wanna turn that one-off. – Maybe that’s a benefit sometimes. – Especially in the holidays. – Yeah. Those are some iPhone settings you should never turn off.

Next, let’s go back to the main page of the setting’s app. Just tap these back buttons in, upper left-hand corner of the screen, scroll down, and tap on messages. And come down here, you’ll see send as SMS. You got MMS messaging, group messaging.

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