A brand new iPhone is always good news. Get the most out of it with these little tricks
If you were good in 2023, the Kings may have left an iPhone lying around the house. One of the main advantages of iOS is that you barely need to touch the phone for it to work, although there are always some hidden settings that you don’t always know about and that can help you have a better experience.
I’ll tell you what three settings I always change when I start an iPhone. They are very simple configurations and adjustments that will save you space and battery in seconds.
Even iPhones have bloatware. iPhones don’t stand out as the phones with the lowest storage, as versions continue to start at 128GB. While far from the apps included by other Android manufacturers, iPhones also have a certain amount of annoying and useless bloatware.
Starting with iOS 16 it is possible to uninstall some of the pre-installed applications on iPhones, a fundamental setting for having additional space on your new phone. This is the complete list of applications you can delete.
- Activity
- Apple Books
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Compass
- Contacts
- FaceTime
- File
- iTunes store
- Maps
- Measures
- Music
- News (if available)
- degrees
- Podcasts
- Memorandum
- If it is so
- Suggestions
- TV (where available)
- video
- vocal notes
- Watch App
- Time
Turn off background sync. Unlike some Android apps, you won’t stop receiving notifications in iOS if you disable background sync. This is one of the main power savers of the Apple operating system, and after turning off this setting, you will be surprised to see that everything works as before.
You just need to go to Settings, General, Background Refresh and choose the applications you don’t want to update in the background. In my case I directly disabled the option so that no one can do it, neither those installed nor the next apps I install.
Turn off Dolby Vision on your camera. In the camera settings, in the “record video” section, you will find the “Video HDR” mode. The name may be confusing, as turning it off won’t disable the iPhone’s HDR mode, but it will disable recording in 10-bit Dolby Vision format.
It’s a useful format for achieving dynamic range and viewing content on compatible TVs, but some video editors still don’t fare very well with it. To avoid incompatibilities I always deactivate it as soon as I receive the phone.
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2024-01-06 10:00:44
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