Your devices come preloaded with settings and apps that can slow things down. This is especially true with new PCs, which have many programs that start automatically as soon as you boot it up.

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Tech companies embed default settings into our devices that supposedly make our lives easier, but they often cause more problems than they are worth. Here are 10 default iPhone settings you should switch off.

Your iPhone has many configurable settings, some of which make life easier. Others control apps or features you never use. And others still are not worth the battery drain.

Apple technically asks you to opt-in to some settings when you set up a new iPhone, but you might miss these steps in your excitement to get your phone up and running.

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We can usually opt-out or disable these settings, but it’s not always easy. Well, we’re here to change that. Here are 10 settings to adjust ASAP.

BONUS: Do you want all your apps to constantly download content and use cellular data while draining the battery? By default, all apps have background refresh On. But do Facebook, Instagram, and Images need this? No way!

Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh. If you don’t want any apps to refresh in the background, you can turn Background App Refresh off. But you probably don’t want to do that since some apps actually need to refresh.

Instead, scroll through the list of all your apps on the Background App Refresh page and toggle off each app you don’t want to refresh automatically. With that done, you may have to wait a few seconds for updates whenever you open an app. That’s the only sacrifice. And it’s worth it!

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