Throwing an iPhone is quite a ritual. A rather personal ritual, in addition, because depending on the use that we will give to the telephone, we will favor one or the other of the actions. There are a few —common, let’s say— baselines that we won’t go over in this article, because where we will talk about configuration details and some applications.
Go ahead, the advice — if you can call it that — that I am going to present to you should not be valid for everyone, far from it. But yes they can serve as a reminder when configuring these or other similar options on our new iPhone or even to change some settings on the iPhone we are already using. So, without further ado, let me tell you everything I do as soon as I launch my iPhone.
Some setups, installing apps and nothing else
Over the years, operating systems and clean installations mainly motivated by having participated in the various beta cycles, I left behind a lot of customization. For this reason, even when in a training we dedicate ourselves to setting up an iPhone for someone from scratch, I recommend keeping the factory settings as much as possible. I do it this way because I consider – one more opinion, of course – that the options that Apple leaves predefined make a lot of sense. Sometimes enabling or disabling certain options conflicts with other settings and can blur the experience.
That being said, I do change some settings and also recommend changing the ones that we clearly want to change. What I do, not necessarily in that order, is change browser from Safari to DuckDuck Go since Settings > Safari and change the swipe options to Settings > To post so that by swiping right you can quickly archive emails. I also turn up the volume to maximum. Ringtone and alerts and change my ringtone to Settings > sounds and vibrationsI do this using one of several I’ve purchased that automatically downloads.
I check that the default calendars and reminder lists are correct and rewrite the quick responses to a call in Settings > Telephone. I enable app privacy report in Settings > privacy and I disable access to Notification Center, Today and Search, Control Center and others when iPhone is locked. In Settings > Calendar I define the default warnings so that events ring at the exact time and those for birthdays and all day at 9:00 on the day in question.
With that done, I turn my attention to the App Store and download the eight apps I use: iA Writer, Lockdown, Slack, 1Blocker, Vinegar, Tech Support, Apple Store, and Uber. And with that, I conclude the configuration. The rest of the information, such as photos, files, music and everything else, automatically downloads from iCloud.
One more thing. I’m used to let the battery fully discharge and then fully charge it so that it performs its first charging cycle and calibrates itself correctly. A custom of the time when the technology was not that of the iPhone 14, of course. And ready. From there simply to take advantage of the iPhone.
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