HIDDEN Roku Settings all users need to know about 2023

now I have been a bit of a Roku hater in

the past okay it's honestly not my

favorite device I just think there's

other better competing devices out there

that can do a little bit more but I know

a lot of you have them so today we're

going to be walking through the top

settings that you should either turn off

or turn on depending if you need them so

if you're new to your Roku or you don't

know a lot about the different settings

this is a great video to stick around

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and let's go ahead and get right into

things so we're gonna head right over to

our Roku right now I'm on the Roku

Express I want to say this model is the

settings really don't change between the

different models I think there's a few

slight differences if you have the Roku

Ultra which I was gonna set up but I

decided not to I decided to do it on the

premiere because I think most people

have one of the smaller cheaper devices

in my experiences so the first thing

you're going to want to do is scroll

over to settings first of all the Roku

remote suck like I gotta point it right

at it it's kind of annoying

and we're going to go into settings now

I do want to start off with some basic

settings so I want to start at the

bottom because this is where most of the

bulk settings that will be changing is

in so we're going to go into the system

section now you can click on about if

you want to learn more about your Roku

build you can see your IP address stuff

like that you can see I had a kind of

block out a lot of this just because

it's private information but just really

quickly if you want to learn more about

your Roku you can go into the about

section now your time is automatically

set based on your internet connection

but if you lose or you move away and you

go to a different time zone you might

have to go in here and here and change

it but mostly if it's set to automatic

it should automatically change in 99.9

percent of cases

now control other devices you really

don't have to touch so I would just stay

away from this this just tells your uh

TV to automatically switch to an active

source source when you press your Roku

remote so that's if your Roku remote is

in sleep your TV's off and you click

your button your TV will automatically

turn on your Roku will go to the correct

input so that is always automatically

set I suggest just leaving it on I think

that's the best thing in this case

languages you would probably already set

your language when you initially set up

your device there is screen mirroring so

this allows you to mirror your screen

from your tablet from your phone and

this will automatically send a prompt to

your device before you allow that that

way not just anybody can connect to your

Roku device and start that prompt so

it's a little bit better a little bit

more security if you don't want somebody

to automatically connect to your device

so I think that's a handy setting now

software update is something I suggest

some you guys check out all the time

because there are are always constant

software updates and they don't all

automatically happen all the time so for

example I didn't plug this device in for

a long time so if I click on check now

it's going to check for the most recent

software and it's going to you see it's

going to update Prime video it might

update a few other channels and this way

you always have the most up-to-date

versions of each different app as well

as your Roku device is up to date as

well so there we go all software is up

to date we're going to press that ok

button and we're going to go back now

you can do a system restart so this is

just going to basically turn your Roku

off and turn it back on again I just

wanted to show that to you guys this is

Handy if you're having issues remember a

lot of the times your device is just

going into sleep mode so we're not

actually turning it off we're just kind

of putting it to bed right but

restarting your device will fully turn

off the power and restart and that

sometimes can fix little issues that you

have

now guest mode is an interesting one if

you have guests over say you run like an

Airbnb or something and you want them to

be able to access it in guest mode they

can go to guest mode and they can

basically you can set up a pin for your

account and they'll be able to log in

with that PIN now I haven't tested out

guest mode but my guess my best guess is

that uh guest guest anyways uh my best

guess is that essentially they'll be

able to add their own Netflix account

and that will go away after or they just

have access to certain things so it's

just a good option

now if you're really having issues with

your device you can factory reset it

this basically resets it like it was

brand new okay so it turns it off it

resets it like you got it brand new in

the box in this case you're usually

gonna have to do system updates as well

um so that's a really good uh option if

you're having a ton of issues with your

Roku last option it's nuclear option

factory reset it now there is a network

connection reset as well if you're

having issues with your Wi-Fi

Etc so device connect essentially does

these three things or lets you do these

three things so if you don't want it to

be able to pair to your Roku enhanced

remote or mirror what's on your

smartphone or use the Roku player at a

hotel or dorm room for example like it

says there you can disable that and

those will be automatically disabled as

well there's also control by mobile apps

so that's certain features right you can

control the mobile apps you need to

allow network connection to do that

that's not a setting I personally play

around with okay there is Advanced

display settings so this auto adjust

display refresh rate to the content

native format as needed so basically

depending on your TV's capability the

streaming service Etc this will

automatically change it and auto adjust

it so I do suggest turning this one on I

think it's a really good setting to have

on

now that's everything for advanced

system settings and everything for

system settings now apart from that the

next thing I really suggest checking out

is privacy I know a lot of you love your

privacy and just like your fire stick

just like your Nvidia Shield they are

constantly selling your data

so that they can give you

recommendations and they can earn money

based on your purchases a lot of them do

based on the ad spend that they have the

amount of users that are spending on the

ads they run through their device now

one way to not have them give you

recommendations and not collect your

data as much is to click on advertising

and go over to personalized ads turning

this off basically means that they won't

be collecting your data or using the

data they collect in order to give you

specified ads now if you want full 100

protection you guys know I suggest

running a VPN and down below in the

description I have the best possible VPN

you can see expressvpn right here this

is going to protect you from those

trying to steal your data and they're

also going to basically change your

location so on services such as Netflix

Etc you can get the most out of it by

unlocking geo-restricted content now

this discount gives you three months

free plus you get a 30 day money back

guarantee so if you don't like it click

on it and get your money back at any

point try it for 30 days again if you

don't like it get your money back before

those 30 days happen

but of course turn off those

personalized ads there's really no

reason to have it on if you love those

tailor ads and you're like well if I'm

gonna see ads anyways which you are with

the Roku

um I might as well see ads I want to see

then keep it on obviously right so it's

really just preference at that point

there's not really anything you have to

check out in legal notices that I would

suggest now Apple AirPlay and home kit

I'm not 100 sure as I've never done

anything with apple AirPlay with this

um so it might be something I'm assuming

that just has to do kind of with uh

screen mirroring but on your Apple

AirPlay but I'm not familiar with it it

might be something that you have to

check out now payment method you can

have your PayPal automatically connected

which I have connected so if you want to

make purchases through your Roku you can

go ahead and do that it might make

things a little bit easier now next up

is your home screen this just has four

different settings you can toggle on and

off and these are essentially just the

menus you see in your home screen so

your featured free sections these are

the featured free content if you want

that showing you can show it if not you

can hide it that's the same with your

save list so these are certain apps Etc

that you're saving same with your feed

if you want your feed hidden and same

with your shortcut so it has ad channels

and TV off for example so if we go back

all the way out of settings for a second

and we go over you can see here featured

free your save list so these are free

content available on the Roku that are

featured at the moment okay your save

list which I don't have any obviously I

don't use my Roku much your my feed

which should change based on what you're

searching etc those will all be able to

be toggled on and off depending if you

want the setting active or not so it's

totally up to you if that's something

that's all in your home screen

now there are a few audio settings you

can change up so for example there is

your menu volume so this is the sound

you're going to hear when scrolling

through your menu you can completely

turn that off or you can turn it higher

lower depending if you like those audio

signals while you're working on your

device there is audio mode which you can

switch from audio stereo Auto Stereo to

stereo right so this will just change up

based on the format and what settings

you have active there is audio preferred

language which again you can change

based on your own language there's

streaming audio format now this is a

good one you can change from Dolby DTS

or to audio auto I just leave it on auto

because that kind of just gives you the

best based on your own situation and

there's digital output formats this is

audio format settings for HDMI output so

for your HDMI output you can change it

to Auto to stereo to custom again if you

want Adobe or DTS active both those are

available there as well now captions of

course a lot of people love having

different captions so inside of the

captions section you can actually change

change up a ridiculous amount of things

everything from the text style so it's

going to give you examples while you go

through it to the text size to the text

color so if you're somebody that really

uses captions this is going to give you

the captions that work best on you if

you're colorblind if you have trouble

seeing smaller text if you have trouble

with certain you know maybe windows or

backgrounds they have so many caption uh

customizations I'm not even go I'm not

even going to go through them all

because there are so many to check out

in terms of captions Now display type

here you can set either to automatic

which will be 1080P or you can set it

based on your own situation so your TV

does not support 4K so if your TV does

not support it it will let you know I

think it automatically adjusts based on

your situation I'm obviously have it

connected to my monitor so it only shows

so much so you can set it to 4K all the

time if you want and then it will just

downscale from from there based on the

content you're watching so if you have a

TV that can handle 4K 60fps definitely

set it to that and that way it will just

downscale if there's certain content

that's not going to run at that display

now Roku does have some themes that you

can play around with so different

wallpapers different screensavers so if

you don't like how your Roku is looking

we can set this as our wallpaper it's

going to change it to nebula we're just

going to give it a few seconds and then

we can set back and now it's just going

to give it a slightly different look so

it's really based on how you like the

style of your backgrounds they also have

screen savers some really nice

screensavers actually we're not going to

worry about sounds so there are

automatic wallpaper updates there's

wallpaper animations which you can turn

off if you want that's just going to be

the movements that happen in your

wallpapers or in your screen savers

there's the start time for the screen

saver now I suggest this set at 10

minutes I think that gives you enough

time to go do something and come back

when you need to and then of course you

can always set back to your default

whenever you want now as for remotes if

you have issues with your remotes you

can always try re-adding your remote and

that just happens by setting it to

pairing mode so if you want to learn how

to automatic medically reset your remote

make sure you click here where I teach

you everything about your Roku remote

I'll see you guys in the next one