Hi Ed, What somebody wants to turn off or keep on is personal preference. As for “where” I already said that. Background app refresh is its own item in Settings > General and system related location services are, as I said, under Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System (that is almost at the very bottom of location services). Here you have things like automatic time zone which I don’t feel is necessary, if anything I may turn it on briefly if I am travelling across time zones and the time doesn’t seem to set itself correctly, but usually it does anyways based on cell towers. Also things like traffic I don’t feel I eed or nearby locations etc. Most of the system related location services I turn off except maybe compass calibration or distance tracking or whatever it is called. Alsom most is pretty self-explanatory.
As for background app refresh, I turn everything off except maybe those that are important to me like Parcel, Facebook, Messenger, Skype etc. Again, it’s personal preference, but even if you turned off background app refresh altogether it may not make it much of a worse experience for many users. How much battery it actually saves I don’t know, it just says turning off some of this “may save battery life”. iCloud is the same thing. If you never take photos having iCloud Library turned on for photos or turning on Photostream may not be important. I use OneDrive to back up my photos so it’s not important to me and it would only result in photos getting uploaded to two cloud services which of course may use more of my data if I am not on WiFi when I take a picture. I suggest you just go through the options and decide what seems important for how you use your device, there is no right or wrong or a particular set of settings that works for everybody. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pinky Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 8:35 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Someone please help me, or I am going to pull my hair out! Hi Sieghard, I have the Wi-Fi assist turned off. I would appreciate if you could provide exactly where you went to do these other things that you talk about in Background App Refresh was off for unimportant apps, turn off non-important items under Privacy > Location Services > System, set up what should be backed up in iCloud etc.). If you could tell a new user like myself and others where exactly you do these other setting changes like where they are located and what things in privacy you turn off. I know this may take you awhile to do this but I am sure it would be greatly appreciated as I would like to be able to make sure I have all this stuff turned off in the correct location and the correct items on my new phone. Ed From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 9:02 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: RE: Someone please help me, or I am going to pull my hair out! Hi Terri, First of all, if you are talking about an iOS update then it would not have updated automatically in the middle of the night. iOS updates are automatically downloaded to your phone if it is connected to WiFi and plugged in, but they simply will not install unless you tap on two separate “I Agree” buttons. Anyhow, the 9.3.1 update is a good update and you shouldn’t have the issues you are having. If hard rebooting and doing a Reset Network Settings does not help I strongly recommend you spend the time it takes to do a full restore preferably via iTunes and to then set up the phone as a new phone instead of restoring a backup. Backups can also “backup” issues and when you restore the issues can return. I recently restored a backup of my wife’s iPhone 6 to the 6S she is now using and it seemed that the battery was not lasting as long as it should. I ended up restoring via iTunes which essentially means you reinstall iOS 9.3.1 and then set up the phone as a new phone which means all you have on the phone are the Apple stock apps. Next I went through Settings and made sure everything was as it should be (turn off Wi-Fi Assist in Cellular, make sure Background App Refresh was off for unimportant apps, turn off non-important items under Privacy > Location Services > System, set up what should be backed up in iCloud etc.). I next put about 15 apps she uses on a regular bases back on the phone (I chose to do so via iTunes, but you can of course reinstall them via the App Store and the Purchased apps area). After that I arranged the apps on the home screen the way I like which of course was not how she liked it (women *sigh*). Then I set up again her email account, signed into all her other apps like Facebook/Messenger, Google/Youtube, made sure the Sonos app was connected to our Sonos music system and all that. Lastly I synced her music and ringtones back to the phone. She uses Dropbox to backup her photos so nothing to worry there and now I installed OneDrive on her phone since I bought Office 365 which gives each of us 1 Tb of online storage so I turned off the automatic camera roll backup in Dropbox and enabled it in OneDrive. In the end I probably spend about 3 to 4 hours doing all that and it paid off. I unplugged her 6S yesterday morning and this morning, after basically 24 hours, the battery is down to 60%. A 40% drop in 24 hours I think is pretty good and it really seems to have made a difference. I suggest you do the same. Depending on how many apps you have on the phone doing a restore and setting up as a new phone can be a bit of a process, but every so often I find it’s worth it. A little tip, when you start an email and after you type in somebody’s email address, try to tap the return button (you may have to do so twice). For me this works like pressing the tab key on the computer and it takes me from the “To” field to the subject field and puts focus there. After I type my subject line I double tap the return key again and focus jumps into the message body field where I can start to type my message or start dictating it by doing a 2-finger double tap. And one last piece of advice: whenever an iOS update is available, make sure before you do the update that you empty your app switcher and, as a minimum, reboot the phone. I always do a Reset Network Settings before any iOS update and while this requires me to re-enter my Wi-Fi passwords for my home and work, I find it can avoid potential issues. Best regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Terri Stimmel Sent: Monday, May 2, 2016 11:53 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Someone please help me, or I am going to pull my hair out! Hi everyone, I really hope someone can help me. I am at a loss as to what to do. It is really driving me crazy! I want to throw my phone in the river! I guess I would say this started happening a couple weeks ago. It was before I took the update. I did not want the update. It automatically updated in the middle of the night, which really pissed me off. Anyway, I have a 5S. It has worked well since I got it. I want to say that I got it in February, when I upgraded it for my for ass. I love the phone, and I have overall really enjoyed it. However, it is started freezing up a lot! I don't know why. It seems to do it out of the blue. It will do it if I am sitting here playing with it and it's not charging, and it would do it if I am playing with it, and it is charging. So that does not seem to make a difference. I am my farted boyfriend to take a look at it, and I turned off voiceover. He said when he tried to go to different amps, or just move the screen around, he had no problems. This really disappointed me, because I am guessing this must be an accessibility issue. But really I don't know. For instance, just a few minutes ago I tried to write this email. It took me a while to get the name of the group in the from box, then I couldn't get into the subject box, no matter what I did. I had to reboot the phone three or four times power it down three or four different times, rebooted again after I powered it down, and right now it seems to be OK I even left it off for about 10 to 15 minutes, after one of the times I shut it down. But as soon as I turned it back on, and unlocked it, and started to go through my list of apps, it started doing that shit again. It won't let me swipe the screen. It is don't get frozen. But dinner will let me swipe, but it might not open the app. I feel like I am on a roller coaster ride with this thing. I don't know what to do about it. I don't know if I should go to AT&T, or if I should go to the Apple Store? Or I don't know if there is a thick that I can do for it at home. I am really hoping there is, because I can forward to really spend any money on it. I feel very frustrated! I wanted to throw that thing! I want to smash it! But deep down not really, because it's my main mode of doing things, and my main piece of accessibility. Well I do have a laptop. But I use my phone a heck of a lot! Does anyone have any idea as to what could be going on? Why is the rebooting affect not working? Why is turning it off and on not working? Has anyone else seen this issue? 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