Your iPhone has many hidden iPhone settings that can make it faster, safer, and more fun to use but most people never change them.
In 2025, Apple added new features that are easy to miss unless you know where these features resides.
In this blog, you’ll see the top 10 iPhone settings to change right now and these simple tips that can save battery, protect your privacy, and unlock secret iPhone tricks.
Here are top 10 settings you should change right now on your iPhone with hidden/good tips for 2025.
These tips/iphone settings apply from iOS 18/26 onwards:
Back Tap shortcut
Go to Settings → Accessibility → Touch → Back Tap.
In your iPhone can set double-tap or triple-tap on the back of your iPhone to perform useful things lik screenshot, open flashlight, etc.
Tip: Choose something you’ll use often.
Live Voicemail transcription
Go to Settings → Phone → Live Voicemail and turn this ON.
Now, you’ll see text of what’s being said in real time when a voicemail is coming in.
Tip: Handy for screening spam or urgent calls.
Hide or require Face ID for sensitive apps
Under Settings → Privacy & Security (or in app’s settings)
Now, you can require Face ID/Touch ID for certain apps, or hide them in the App Library.
Tip: If someone take your iPhone, they won’t able to access these apps.
Charge limit / battery health tweak
If you want, you iPhone batter last longer then set this iPhone settings:
Settings → Battery → Charging → set a limit (e.g., keep charging to 80-95%)
Tip: If you keep your phone for many years, this helps.
Reduce motion & transparency
If you want makes animations smoother and less fancy in you iPhone then go with this iPhone settings.
Go to Settings → Accessibility → Motion → turn on Reduce Motion.
Also in Display & Text Size turn on Reduce Transparency.
Tip: Great if your device feels slow, or you dislike motion effects.
Add widgets and customize home screen
If you want any app or widget should available on your iPhone home screen then this iPhone setting for you:
Long press the home screen → tap + → add widgets (weather, battery, calendar).
Also use Settings → Home Screen → App Library Only to hide newly downloaded apps from home.
Tip: Keeps your home screen neat and useful.
Stop videos autoplaying / looping
if you don’t want to distracted by moving videos in Photos or when browsing then go with this iPhone setting:
Go to Settings → Photos → turn off “Loop Videos” or “Auto-Play Motion”
Tip: Good for saving battery and avoiding distractions.
Turn off “Apps asking to track”
This iPhone setting stops apps from asking you and possibly tracking you across apps/websites.
Go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking → turn off ‘Allow Apps to Request to Track’.
Tip: Boosts your privacy with almost no downside.
Customize Control Center & Lock screen shortcuts
Use these iPhone settings to customise lock screen shortcuts:
Settings → Display & Brightness → Dark Mode (or Auto).
Then Settings → General → Control Centre to add or rearrange shortcuts.
Also change what shows when locked via:
Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Allow Access When Locked.
Tip: Make important features just one swipe away.
Adjust flashlight brightness & remove notification badges
For flashlight:
open Control Centre, long-press flashlight icon → you’ll see brightness slider.
To remove red badges:
Settings → Notifications → select app → turn off Badges.
Tip: Less visual clutter + flashlight brightness control is handy.
