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Twelve settings to change on a new iPhone

新機到手必看!!iPhone 18 Pro 到手必改 12 個設定一次看!充電上限、防盜、護眼一步步教到好 feat.Anker

APPLEFANS蘋果迷Guide17:12Oct 1, 2026496.9K views, read Nov 2, 2026

About this video

Seventeen minutes on twelve settings, arranged around three worries rather than around the Settings app's own layout: keeping the battery healthy, keeping the phone from being a nuisance or a liability, and keeping the screen readable. The order is deliberate — the charge limit gets four minutes because it is the one that changes how the phone is used every day, and the last three are the settings nobody opens until the day they matter.

Two things about this video are worth knowing before watching it. It is an iPhone video on a site about Mac software, and it is sponsored — the description carries an Anker charger segment and a giveaway, and the first two and a half minutes are the opening plus that segment. The content starts at 3:24, which is also where the first app in the list would be if this were a roundup; here it is where the first real setting begins.

The structure is three worries in order of how often they bite. Battery first, and the video gives it four minutes against roughly a minute each for most of the rest: the argument is that the charge limit is the only setting on the list that changes daily behaviour, and that a phone treated this way degrades more slowly over the years it is kept. Screen comfort follows — brightness behaviour in low light, and the animation settings that make a phone feel faster or slower than it is.

The middle block is about the phone as a nuisance and as a liability: unwanted calls, network handoffs that stall, a built-in app that does not do what the viewer wants. The call-filtering item is the one place a third-party app is named — Whoscall, offered as the thing most viewers already have installed rather than as a recommendation.

The last five are hardware and identity. The Action Button gets the longest of them, because it replaced the mute switch and therefore now needs a decision; the Camera Control button gets the shortest and the most honest treatment, the video calling it something closer to a novelty than a control. Account recovery and the emergency feature close the list, in that order — one to set up before it is needed, one that is only ever opened in the worst case.

Nothing here is linked to an app page. The settings are all iOS’s own, and the one app named is an iPhone app, so there is nothing on this site for it to point at.

What it covers

  • The charge limit is the setting the video spends longest on, and the one it frames as a daily habit rather than a one-off switch
  • Call filtering is handled by a third-party app — Whoscall is named as the one most viewers already have — not by a switch in Settings
  • The Action Button is presented as having replaced the mute switch, so its configuration is now something a new owner has to decide
  • The Camera Control button gets its own item, and the video is candid that it is only marginally useful
  • Account recovery is the answer to a forgotten Apple ID password, and the video's framing is that it must be set up before it is needed
  • The last item is a feature the video hopes the viewer never has to use, which is why it is last

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Chapters

Chapter times are the creator's own list, published in the video description; the names are translated from it rather than rewritten.

Apps in this video

No app page is linked, and none should be. This is a walkthrough of iOS Settings on an iPhone 18 Pro; every switch it touches belongs to the system, and nothing in it is Mac software, which is what the rest of this site covers. The one third-party app named — Whoscall, as call filtering most viewers already have — is an iPhone app with no entry here.