So, by now you've probably already

unboxed and set up your brand new iPhone

17, 17 Pro, or iPhone Air. But now you

might be overwhelmed and wondering what

to do next. Well, that's exactly why I'm

here, because in this video, we're going

to cover the first 24 things that you

need to do. So, the first settings you

should change, the first features you

should try out, and everything you need

to know to get the most out of your

device. And there are going to be many

bonus tips and little Easter eggs

sprinkled throughout the video as well,

so stay alert. Okay, so the very first

thing you need to do is make sure your

device is actually new. And when I say

that, I know I sound crazy, but you

would be very surprised to see how many

people think they get a new device, but

it's not actually brand new. So, we need

to make sure yours is brand new, so you

can return it within that 14-day window

if yours is not actually brand new. So

to do that, we need to go into our

settings, go to battery, and from here,

scroll down until you get to battery

health. And you want to make sure that

your maximum capacity is at 100% and

that your cycle count is low. So if you

just unbox your device, the cycle count

should be at zero. But if you've been

using it for a little bit, it should be

relatively low. I'd say less than 10

cycles if you've only used it for a

couple of days or a few days. Now, while

we're in the battery section, you also

need to do a few other things. So, first

off, you need to understand that we have

a brand new battery chart. Now, in our

settings, it's a lot more advanced. So,

now you can go into specific

applications and see charts and usage

based on specific apps. But, we need to

change a couple of other things in here.

So, first off, battery percentage is

disabled by default. So, if you want to

see your battery percentage up here in

your status bar, some people don't like

that because it's anxietyinducing, but

if you do want to see your battery

percentage, that right there is where

you enable it. Now, also if we go into

power mode, we have a brand new mode

called adaptive power with iOS 26. So,

the way this feature works is basically

when your device detects that you're

using more battery than usual, it will

make performance adjustments such as

lowering your display brightness for

you. It will allow some activities to

take longer and it can turn on low power

mode at 20%. Now, that sounds good. That

will likely save battery life. But if

you're somebody who wants to have full

control over your device and you don't

want things being changed automatically

for you, you might want to turn that off

since it is on by default. Now, me

personally, I will be keeping that on.

However, I will be turning off adaptive

power notifications because I don't need

a notification every time something like

this is happening in the background.

Now, if we go back to this screen, we

also need to go into charging and change

our charge limit. So, by default, your

charge limit is set up to 100%. That

way, when you charge your phone, it

charges up to 100%. Sounds logical.

However, if you plan on keeping your

device for multiple years, you might

want to change this to something like

90%. That's what I typically keep my

charge limit at. That way, my phone only

charges up to 90%, and that's just a

little bit easier on the long-term

battery health of your lithium-ion

battery in your iPhone. Now, will it

make a massive difference over like one

or two years? Probably not. But after a

couple of years, it could have an impact

if you charge your phone up to 100%

every single time. It's also why you see

electric cars recommend you not charge

up to 100%. it's just not as good

longterm on the battery. So, just keep

that in mind and you can adjust that

based on your usage and how long you

plan on keeping your phone. So, for me,

I'm going to keep mine sets at 90% just

because I prefer to keep my battery

health at 100% for as long as possible

and I believe that is the best way to do

it or one of the best ways to do it.

Now, also clean energy charging is

turned on by default. I always turn that

off completely. So, what this does is it

will try to reduce your carbon footprint

by selectively charging when lower

carbon emission electricity is

available. So, if you want to charge

your phone whenever you want to charge

your phone, I would recommend turning

that off because sometimes if you had

this turned on and you plugged in your

phone, it would not actually charge

until it detected that lower carbon

emission electricity is available and

that can get pretty frustrating. So,

personal preference, but I will be

turning that off. So this year, Apple

did something they've never done before

on the iPhone, and that is that they put

a Pro display on nonpro iPhone. So the

base model iPhone 17 and the iPhone Air

now get the Pro display, which is the

120 Hz prootion display, which means

that you have the always on display on

those devices. And you also have the

more fluid screen in general that goes

from one hertz to 120 Hz. So the next

thing you need to do is understand how

that works, why it's actually different,

and also adjust your always on display

settings. So let's start with the always

on display. Always on display is when

you lock your device and you can still

see certain elements. So like the time,

the date, the background, notifications.

However, you might want to change that.

So if you go into your settings here and

then we go down to display and

brightness and then scroll down, you

will see always on display. That's brand

new if you've never had a Pro device

before. So if we go to always on

display, everything is selected by

default. However, you might not want

that. So, you can turn always on display

off as a whole if you want to. I think

it's pretty useful, but it will save you

battery life if you do turn the always

on display off. Now, also, if you don't

want to have notifications showing up,

you can turn that off because it can be

pretty distracting when you can just

always glance at your phone and see your

notifications. So, I will be turning

that off. And then, if you don't want

your wallpaper, you can turn that off.

And if you don't want it blurred, you

can turn that off. However, I think both

of those look pretty good with the right

wallpaper. And if you've never had a 120

Hz promotion display on your iPhone,

basically the best way you can tell that

it's 120 Hz is when you scroll really

fast on a web page or anytime you just

move really fast on your iPhone, you

will just notice how everything is a bit

smoother. Everything just feels smoother

and less choppy than the 60 Hz displays

that we've had in the past. Now, also,

if you're somebody who prefers 60 Hz for

some reason, you can change that back.

So, if you go into your settings and

into accessibility and then into motion,

if we go down here near the bottom, we

have an option called limit frame rate.

And what this does is it will set the

maximum frame rate to 60 frames per

second. But I like 120 Hz. I think most

of you guys do as well, so I'm going to

keep that disabled. Okay. So, we have a

pretty nice upgrade to the cameras on

the iPhone 17 lineup. Even the iPhone

Air got a nice upgrade in the camera

department on the rearfacing and on the

front-facing camera. So, what I want to

talk about right now is dual recording.

So, the next thing you need to do is try

out the brand new dual recording mode on

the iPhone 17 and the iPhone Air. So,

how you do this? By default, you will

not see anything right here. When you go

to video that's new. However, when you

tap on these dots up in the top right,

you will see that we have a brand new

option at the bottom called dual

capture. When you tap on that, what this

will do is it will bring up a screen of

your front-facing camera along with your

rearfacing camera, and you can record

both simultaneously. So, if I go ahead

over here, you can see I have my face in

there, and I also have these iPhones in

the frame, and I can record that at the

same time. So, if I go ahead and start

recording, you can see I'm up there in

the upper right corner. However,

something else you need to do and kind

of just understand is that you can move

this around. So, you can actually move

your camera around while you're

recording. So you can change it before.

You can also move it around while you're

recording and that will adjust in the

actual video file as well. So now if I

go into that video, you can see it will

show me right up there. And then it will

show me as well as I'm moving that

camera around while I'm recording. So

the iPhone 17 introduces a brand new

setting that people have waited many

years for. And this has to do with PWM,

which is pulse with modulation. So,

basically, if you've ever looked at your

phone, especially in the dark, and you

got a headache or you felt your eyes

just kind of getting tired, it could be

due to PWM. And PWM is basically the

number of times that your display

flickers. So, OLED displays flicker to

adjust the brightness levels. And this

setting will disable that fast blinking

and it's going to lower the actual power

going to the screen to make it darker.

So, let me stop getting technical for a

minute and just show you where the

setting is. So, go into your settings,

go to accessibility, and you want to go

down to display and text size, and then

scroll down near the bottom. You have a

brand new toggle for the iPhone 17

series and the iPhone Air called display

pulse smoothing, PWM. And this is off by

default, but if you're somebody who

suffers from, you know, reacting to PWM,

you might want to turn this on. This

should actually be one of the first

things that you turn on on your iPhone.

And Apple describes it as this disables

pulse width modulation to provide a

different way to dim the OLED display

which can create a smoother display

output at low brightness levels.

Disabling PWM may affect low brightness

display performance under certain

conditions. But of course, that last

sentence is not even going to matter if

you can actually look at your display

now and not get a headache. So, this is

actually a game-changing feature for a

lot of people who suffer from this who

got a headache every time they looked at

their phone and tried to use it. So, if

you did, make sure you turn that on. So,

here's another first for Apple. So, this

year for the iPhone 17 Pro series,

specifically the Pro and the Pro Max,

Apple put the ceramic shield on the back

of the iPhone for the first time ever.

So, we do have ceramic Shield 2 on the

front. So, all of the iPhone 17s have

ceramic Shield 2 on the front. That's

going to lead to three times better

scratch resistance. However, and I'm

sure you've seen it by now, so many

people online are reporting that the

iPhone 17 Pro specifically and the Pro

Max and also the Air are very

scratchprone. A lot of people are seeing

major scratches on their 17 Pros and

their iPhone Airs. So, I'm just going to

go ahead and put a case on my iPhone 17

Pro Max so I don't scratch it up while

I'm making this video. So, I've been

working with Rhino Shield for the past

several years and they continue to just

improve on their already great case

lineup year after year. So, for the

iPhone 17 series, they have three main

styles, and I think you'll like the last

one, but this first one is the solid X

case. It's the next generation of the

classic solid suitcase, but just much

better overall. So, it absorbs 71% of

the drop impact thanks to the shock

spread eco material. So, it's tough, but

it feels great in the hand. And it's

also lightweight, and it has some of my

favorite buttons because they're so

tactile and responsive. But we do also

have the iconic clear case from Rhino

Shield, which has a lifetime anti-

yellowing warranty that they actually

honor. This one allows you to see the

glorious iPhone 17 colors while also

being super lightweight at just under 32

g. That's lighter than a half a slice of

bread. But don't mistake that for

weakness because it exceeds military

grade impact protection and has passed

extensive in-house lab tests. And then

we have the ultra customizable and

expressive Nod NX case. So, this one

lets you swap out the bumper and back

plates whenever you get bored of your

case design. And if you need full 360°

protection, Rhino Shield also has the

Impact Protector Pro screen protector

that provides blue light protection and

a simple install. So, if you picked up

an iPhone 17, you should absolutely

consider a case from Rhino Shield. Right

now, when you buy an iPhone 17 case,

you'll get 40% off a screen protector

and a free lens protector, which I don't

think those are really that great, but

you will get that for free. Plus, if you

use my exclusive code, Brandon at

checkout, you will get an extra 10% off

your entire order. Okay, so the next

thing you need to do is understand how

to actually work the center stage selfie

camera. So, this year, all the iPhone

17s and the iPhone Air get a massive

upgrade to the selfie camera. So, yes,

it's now 18 megapixels, but what does

that actually mean? Is it actually

better? Yes, it actually is better, but

only if you know how to use the center

stage selfie camera because it's

honestly kind of confusing out of the

box because you have these two buttons

down at the bottom and then you also

have this button up top which is on by

default. So, when you tap on that button

right there, you will see two different

options that are separated from each

other. So, you have auto zoom and auto

rotate. And it says center stage can

zoom and rotate to fit everybody in. So,

if you don't want it zooming, you can

turn that off while keeping auto rotate

on. And vice versa, you could have auto

zoom on while having auto rotate off.

Now, what auto rotate is is basically if

you have multiple people in a photo and

you're taking a selfie, it will

automatically rotate the orientation of

that photo. So, you don't have to

actually manually change your, you know,

direction of your phone like this to fit

more people in. It will take that photo

in landscape mode, even if you're

holding your camera up and taking it in

the portrait orientation. So, it's going

to be smart now and understand that it

needs to switch to landscape to fit more

people in the frame. So, it will do that

automatically as long as you have auto

rotate turned on. Now, auto zoom is also

important as well because that acts like

the typical center stage feature that

we've seen in the past on the Mac and on

the iPad. So, you do want to have that

on if you want the camera to kind of

follow you around and keep you in frame.

However, I will say that the center

stage camera does also work on FaceTime.

So, you might want to disable that. And

to disable that, when you're on

FaceTime, you just swipe up from the top

right. And then in your control center,

you will see camera controls up top. You

will see that we now have a center stage

option for the first time. So, if you go

to that, you can tap on that to turn it

off. And you will know it's on when it's

highlighted white with the blue around

it. And you can also access this when

you tap on your camera view and then go

to camera effects. And we have center

stage right there. So, you can turn that

on, you can see it working. or if you

turn it off, it will go back to just

showing where your front-facing camera

is actually facing. And by the way, the

front-facing camera now uses a square

sensor. And that's how it's able to

change between portrait and landscape

mode is because of that new sensor

inside. And keep in mind, you can also

manually adjust the front-facing camera

using this button right here, which will

really extend the view. So, it will

widen the view right there. You can also

tap this to change the orientation

without actually again changing the

orientation of your phone. So you can

see when it looks like this, that means

you're shooting a photo in landscape

mode. When you shoot like that, it means

you're taking a photo in portrait mode,

which is usually just like a couple of

people. But if you have more than like

two or three people, you might want to

press that and make it so that it is in

landscape mode instead of portrait so

you can fit everybody in there. Or of

course, if you have center stage turned

on, it will do that automatically for

you. But let's flip around to the other

side because this year the iPhone 17

Pros have something that the iPhone 17

or the iPhone Air do not have and that

is that we now have triple 48 megapixel

lenses on the back because the telephoto

lens is now also 48 megapixels. So the

next thing you need to do is try out the

amazing 4x to 8x optical zoom. So now

when you go to the screen you will see

that we not only have 0.5 one and two we

also have four and eight. So now you can

optically zoom in which is going to give

you better quality than digital zoom to

up to 8x which is pretty crazy. And you

can also digital zoom up to 40x now on

the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. And by

the way you also need to know that this

is not called the camera bump anymore. I

know a lot of people are still calling

it the camera bump, but technically

based on Apple's verbiage, they're

calling it the camera plateau. So, start

adjusting your vocabulary to just call

this the camera plateau instead of the

camera bump. And I do also want to

mention that you can use the camera

control to zoom as well. So, if we

scroll over here to zoom and go in, you

can see that we can zoom up to that 4x

and the 8x right there. So, we can stop

on 8x. There we go. It has, you know,

has a little resistance there. to stop

right at the 8x, but you can use the

camera control for those zooms as well.

And I'll talk more about how to use

camera control properly in a moment.

Now, let's talk about that camera

control button because if you did not

have an iPhone 16, this is going to be

pretty foreign to you. And this is also

on the iPhone Air. So, all the models

this year did get the camera control and

it's about time to learn how to use it

because it can be very confusing and

very frustrating to use if you don't

know how. So, basically, what you want

to do first off is just understand the

basics. So, what this is, it's an actual

button. So when you press in on it, it

will take a photo, but you can haptic

press as well. So if you push down

without actually fully pressing down,

you get access to different menus if

it's enabled. So the first thing we need

to do is go into our settings. So if we

go into settings here and go into

camera, you will see that up top we have

camera control. If we go into that, it

will show you what you can do here. So

first off, you can change what actually

launches. So if you want the camera app

to launch, you can do that. or there are

third party applications and other type

of camera apps that you can open up

right here. So I keep mine on camera.

You could also choose the gesture to

open up the camera app. So if you wanted

to be a single click or a double click,

that is where you can adjust it. You

could also go down here to camera

adjustment. So if that's off by default,

you might want to turn that on if you

plan on using the camera control because

what that does is if we go ahead and

launch the camera here, that allows you

to do that press in without fully

pressing. you kind of just, you know,

push your finger in without fully

pressing on the button and that allows

you to get to the menu right here to

make adjustments while you're shooting,

you know, in this kind of position of

camera control. So, basically what you

need to do is when you go into a menu,

you just press like that to go into it

and then double press to go back to the

main menu where you can go to different

options here like your photographic

styles, your cameras, your zoom, all of

that. So you press one time to go into

it and you can kind of slide your finger

across this camera control to use that

function. Double press to go back to the

main menu. If we want to change the

depth again, press on it. You don't

actually fully press down. You're just

basically haptic pressing. So you're

pushing down, not pressing, if that

makes sense. So pushing is where you

don't use all your force. Pressing, in

my opinion, is where you just press all

the way down on a button as if it were

just another button like the power. Now

of course you can press to take a photo,

but you can also press and hold to start

taking a quick take video. So now, as

long as you're holding on the camera

control, like fully pushing down on it,

it's going to start recording until you

let go. Once you let go, it will stop

that recording because that was a quick

take recording. But I have to say that

by default, the camera control button is

very, very sensitive. And you might

actually want to change a very important

setting for this. So, if you go into

your settings here, we're going to go

back out of that whole section, and

we're actually going to go into

accessibility for this one. So, if you

go into accessibility and then you

scroll down, you will see that we have a

dedicated section in here for camera

control. If you go into that, you can

change the light press force. So,

remember the light press is not the full

press down where you like take a photo,

the light press is how you pull up the

menus and how you kind of select menus.

So, if you find that to be a little off,

if you want that to be like you only

have to press it a little bit lighter,

you can change that. Or if you notice

it's too sensitive, you might want to

change that to firmer. Me personally, I

find it to be too sensitive. So, I like

to change that to firmer and I notice it

gives me a better experience. Now, also

you can change the double light press

speed. So, if you don't like having to

double press super fast and you know not

triggering, you can actually slow that

down. So, you can double tap a little

bit slower and it will still, you know,

know that you're trying to do a double

press. So, I like keeping that on

default. And then you also have double

click speed. So, again, click is where

you fully push down and you take a

photo. So, if you want the double click

speed to be a little bit slower, you can

change that in here as well. Now, the

iPhone 17 Pros this year get a pretty

major upgrade in terms of performance.

So, the next thing you need to do is

understand that the iPhone 17 Pros now

have 12 GB of RAM for the first time

ever on an iPhone. So, basically, you

just need to understand really the thing

you need to do is just know that you can

now multitask better than ever before.

So, multitasking will be better. You

know, if you're trying to export videos

a lot, that will be better as well,

especially if you have other

applications running. But that kind of

goes handinhand with the next thing you

need to know about the iPhone 17. The

next thing you need to do is basically

know about the vapor chamber cooling

system inside of the iPhone 17 Pro

because that's really the whole point of

having this aluminum unibody design.

It's one of the major reasons Apple

designed the phone this way is so they

can fit a vapor chamber cooling system

inside. And again, this is something

brand new for Apple and it's only on the

Pro models. Now, on paper, it makes the

iPhone 17 Pro heavier than the iPhone

16, but actually feels lighter at times.

But basically, this vapor chamber

cooling system is going to help

significantly keep the temperature down

when you're performing intensive tasks

such as hardcore gaming, exporting

videos, using Lightroom to edit your

photos and export them. That can really

be really taxing on the iPhone

sometimes, and it gets really hot. But

you will notice after using your 17 Pro

that it does not get near as hot as

previous iPhones. And basically the

vapor chamber cooling system is a big

reason why. So if you've had issues in

the past with games and things not

running properly, try it again on the

iPhone 17 Pro because I think you'll be

pretty impressed. Now the next thing you

need to do on your iPhone 17 is

something very important that probably

annoys the heck out of you when you

first get a phone. And that is that you

need to configure your display settings.

Especially if you did not set up your

device from a previous device. If you

started fresh, you're absolutely going

to want to change this. So go into your

settings. There's a few things we want

to adjust in here. So once you're in

your settings and then go down to the

display and brightness section and you

want to change your appearance first

off. So if you like light mode or dark

mode, you can change that or you can

have it set to automatic based on the

sunrise and sunset. I'm going to keep

mine on light for the sake of this

video. Now also we have our brightness

here. So brightness is important. True

tone is also important. So if you want

your display to adapt to the colors

around you, you should keep true tone

on. We do also have autolock. I would

highly recommend setting this to 3 to 5

minutes. In my opinion, 30 seconds to 2

minutes is too short. That's where your

phone automatically locks out. It gets

black and locks you out after not

touching it for 30 seconds is the

default. So, I'd recommend raising that

up. I would also recommend turning off

raise to wake. So, raise to wake is

where you have your device off and if

you wake it up like that, that little

motion right there, it will

automatically unlock. However, the

reason I prefer to keep that off is

because that can inadvertently, you

know, reduce battery life. So, a lot of

people do that and they wake up their

phone constantly throughout the day on

accident just because they picked their

phone up in a certain way. So, I find

that to be kind of a redundant setting.

If it's something you like, of course,

keep it on. Just my personal preference.

I would keep that off. We also have

always on display right there and the

display zoom if you prefer to have

larger text on your device. Now, also,

you might be wondering where is auto

brightness because that's also something

pretty important. So, if you go into

your settings, go to accessibility,

display, and text size. Down at the

bottom, we have auto brightness. So,

this is something you will want to turn

on because auto brightness not only is

great for adjusting the brightness for

you, but also it's the only way that

you're able to take advantage of the

full 3,000 nits of peak brightness on

the iPhone 17s this year when outdoors.

So, yes, even the iPhone Air and the

base model iPhone 17 can get the same

3,000 nits of peak brightness outdoors

as the Pro and Pro Max, but that's only

if you have auto brightness turned on.

So, I recommend keeping that turned on.

Okay, so it's about time to talk about

this home screen here because the next

thing you need to do is make your iPhone

yours. You need to make it customized to

look not like everybody else's phone out

there, which if you take a look at mine,

I don't think anybody else's phone looks

like mine. And that's kind of the point.

I want you to customize your phone to

look the same way. So, you might notice

that these wallpapers are not the

default wallpapers. These are actually

part of my Lustra wallpaper pack. It's a

big collection of like 90 wallpapers.

I'd highly recommend getting this

because it looks so good with liquid

glass. Even if you don't use the clear

icons, it looks amazing with dark icons

as well and light icons. So, if you want

to check this out, it's linked down in

the description below. I'll actually do

a little 15% off code as well. So, just

say Easter egg. Easter egg will get you

50% or 15% off of this wallpaper

collection if you use that. I'm not

going to put it anywhere on screen.

Easter egg is the code. But check this

out. There's something really cool you

can do if you go ahead and haptic press

on your home screen and you go to edit.

So from here we do have some new options

like edit wallpaper, you know, and

things like that. But if you go to

customize, we have something really

cool. If you go to the tinted section.

So if you take a look at my icons, they

look like they match my iPhone. And

that's because they do because now this

built-in feature right here is you can

tap on this and it will color match your

icons to the color of your phone. So

that's pretty cool. But you can take

this a step further and color match to

your accessories as well. So, if you

have an iPhone case and you want to

customize your icons on your home screen

to be the same color as your MagSafe

case from Apple, you can press that

button right there to change that.

However, I'm a big fan of changing the

icons to match the color of the phone. I

think it looks really good on this color

right here. You can also change that

between light, dark, or auto. I think it

actually looks really good in dark right

there because it matches the phone a bit

better. So, I think having a wallpaper

like this on the home screen is the way

to go instead of like a person or a pet

or anything like that. But on the lock

screen, it's a different story. I think

that looks really good when you have

like a significant other, when you have

yourself, when you have your pet, your

kids, things like that. And honestly,

now it looks better than ever on the

lock screen with the iPhone 17 and iOS

26 because if you have to press right

here, we're actually just going to

create a whole new one and we're going

to find a good photo with a subject. So,

let's go into photos. Okay, so we have

this photo right here, but there's a lot

we could do with it because right now it

doesn't look that great honestly on the

lock screen. So, if we zoom to pinch

out, like if we pinch out like that and

kind of zoom out, check this out. You

can see the time kind of going behind my

head automatically. And already as I

start to zoom out, it looks so much

better. So, we can kind of move it like

this. So, my head is barely in the time

right there. But also, we have something

even better. If we tap this button right

there, it will generate what's called a

spatial scene. And what this does is it

essentially turns your photo into like a

3D kind of parallax like object. So it

gives you this really cool 3D effect as

you move your phone around. So it

responds to the gyroscope and how you're

moving your phone to give you an amazing

little effect here. And you can do this

when there's a subject. You can really

do this for any photo, but it really

stands out when you have a subject in

the foreground and something in the

background. Oh, and here's something

else you really need to do pretty

quickly as well after getting your

iPhone 17. And that is customizing the

control center. So, by default, it looks

like this. You're missing a ton of good

toggles, which by the way, you can see

we do have a redesign here for iOS 26 as

well. So, basically, what you want to do

is haptic press right here and go to add

a control. And then you can add some

controls in here. So, some that I

recommend are going to be dark mode, for

example. So, a quick way to get in and

out of dark mode is nice. I would also

strongly recommend the hearing toggle

right there. So, what that does is

allows you to get to background sounds.

So, let me just go ahead and hick press

on that. It allows you to get to

background sounds along with live

listen. So, if you go to background

sounds, this allows you to play some

sounds in the background. Like, you

know, if you like listening to rain at

night or, you know, fire, boats, any of

these sounds to fall asleep, you can

turn those on straight from your control

center, which is nice. And we have one

more I want to show you. Low power mode

is another one I'd highly recommend

putting into your control center. Of

course, you can also adjust the size of

these as well with this little grabber

right here. So, if you use this grabber,

you can make these a little bit larger

if there's one you use more often than

others. Okay, so let's talk about the

iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max because there

is a must enable feature for these

phones and that has to do with the

camera. So, if you want to take full

advantage of the camera, you cannot just

leave it at default. There are multiple

changes you need to make and I will

touch on those in a minute. But I think

the number one thing that you need to

change is go into your settings, go to

camera, you're going to scroll down

until you see formats. go into formats

and you want to enable Pro Raw and

resolution control. For some reason,

that is disabled by default, but you

want to enable that. And then go into

Pro Raw format and change the Pro Raw

format. I prefer JPEG XL lossy. But you

can choose whichever one you would like.

And the reason I choose lossi is because

it's essentially the same quality as

JPEG lossless, but it takes up

significantly less space. So, it's going

to save it as a DNG file. So, it's going

to be much more efficient with the

codec, you know, and everything like

that. So, it's going to be pretty much

the same quality, but you're going to

save space when you shoot raw photos,

which I would recommend if you have a

pro phone, you should be shooting in raw

when you're trying to take a good photo.

So, when you go back to the camera

application, the way you shoot in RAW is

tap right here where it shows HIC and

switch this format to RAW. You want to

make sure it's at RAW 48 megapixels. And

then when you take a photo, you'll

notice that it takes a little bit longer

to take that photo, but it will take it

and it will be much easier to manipulate

when you shoot it in raw format when you

go to edit it, either in the built-in

controller or in something like

Lightroom. And you will also want to go

up here to photo capture and make sure

your photo mode is at 24 megapixels.

It's like that by default, but in case

you accidentally changed it, you want to

always have 24 megapixels right there.

Now, while you're in this section on the

pros, you want to go to video capture

and turn Apple ProRes on because just

like shooting raw for photos, ProRes for

videos is a gamecher. And also ProRes

encoding. I would recommend turning that

to log. Again, that way you have more

control over the colors. You can

manipulate the colors a lot easier in

your editing software of choice. You can

shoot in HDR if you would like. I just

think log looks better and allows you to

really have more control over it. And I

will tell you right now, ProRes videos

are night and day better than default

videos. So again, to do that, go into

your video right here. Tap up here where

you have resolution. And you will see an

option for ProRes up top. You want to

choose log right there. And you want to

make sure you're shooting that in 4K.

And then choose your frame rate. Also,

you'll notice up top here, it will show

you how long you have left of recording

in that format. So for ProRes Log,

obviously it takes up a ton of space on

your device. You're only going to have

limited time. Right now, it shows I have

48 minutes of recording time available.

Okay, so since we're on the subject of

the camera, the next thing you need to

do is make multiple important camera

settings changes across the board for

all iPhone 17s and the iPhone Air. So,

first off, uh pretty much the most

important one in my opinion is in the

camera section right here. Go to record

video and down to the very bottom of

record video is lock white balance. For

some reason, that is so overlooked by a

lot of people. I would highly recommend

turning that on. That way, your white

balance is not all over the place and it

looks super unprofessional. I think you

need to lock the white balance in order

for your video to look professional. And

then lock camera is another one I would

recommend turning on. That way your

phone doesn't switch between cameras

while you're recording and give you that

weird stutter effect. You might also

want to go to record sound and change

this from spatial audio. So, I think

spatial audio sounds good, but for some

people, depending on, you know, what

they're shooting the video for, they may

want to shoot that in stereo instead.

And then also if we scroll down right

here, we have a brand new section in iOS

26 called indicator. So this is

something else you want to do to kind of

clean up your camera application. So if

you go into camera by default, you will

see all these indicators up top. So we

have our flash, we have the, you know,

uh, live photos, all of that right there

up top. But you can hide those now. So

if I turned off flash and live photos,

you just saw they were there. Now

they're gone. And we can access those by

tapping on this menu. And they will show

up down here on the menu. But if you

want to clean up that top part, this is

where you go ahead and disable some of

these indicator. So me personally, I

like removing all of them except for

dual capture, which is the new feature

we talked about earlier. And now you can

see that when I go back, they are all

gone, except for when I go to video, you

can see that we have dual capture up

there up top. And one other thing I

think you should change is right here

under camera, we have lens cleaning

hints. So you might not need to change

this. It is enabled by default, but just

know that this exists. So basically, if

you get smudges all over your camera, if

you smudge it up, your phone will now

tell you when you need to clean that

lens. And of course, despite your

device, you do need to change record

video to shoot in 4K. You didn't pay all

this money to get a camera to shoot in

1080p. So I'd recommend changing that to

4K at 30 or 4K 60. And also, I prefer to

turn off HDR, but you can change that if

you would like to. And once again, these

should be enabled. They are disabled by

default. And if you want to keep your

settings the same for the next time you

go in the camera, you should go to

preserve settings. That way your camera

basically remembers what you had set. So

I like turning this on for most of

these. That way it remembers. Like the

camera mode, for example, if I go into

camera and I go to video and then I go

out of it and then I go back into

camera, you can see it stays in video.

But if I had that turned off, that would

not be the case. And that's kind of, you

know, the crux of preserve settings. It

remembers what you did last and keeps

that enabled or disabled. So go through

here and determine what you want to

always be enabled and turn these on. If

it's like a case by case basis, maybe

just keep those toggles off. And if you

have an iPhone 17, at this point you

need to be shooting in 48 megapixels

because once again, you didn't pay all

that money to not shoot in 48 megapixels

at least some of the time. So what you

need to do is go into your camera

settings, go to format, and then go to

resolution control and turn that on.

That is disabled by default, which means

by default you can't even shoot in 48

megapixels even though you have a 48

megapixel lens. That's kind of crazy. So

now if you go into your camera and you

go up here to HIC, you can change this

to 48 megapixels. So now you can

actually shoot a photo in 48 megapixels

like you have. You know, you can take

advantage of the full resolution of that

camera. So I'd recommend doing that. And

honestly, the photo sizes are not that

large. So 48 megapixels is just going to

make your photos look better. Now, the

next thing you need to do on your iPhone

17 is understand that we now have faster

charging. So we can now charge up to 50%

in just 20 minutes. However, here's the

catch and here's the thing you need to

do. You need to have a 40 watt charger

or higher. So, 40 watts is the minimum

you can have to enable the fast charging

from 0 to 50% in just 20 minutes. So, I

will link some of my favorite 40 watt

plus chargers down in the description

below from Amazon. I would not buy one

from Apple. They're just overpriced and

it's pretty much the same thing. So, I

would just get a third party, but just

know that you can charge now from 0 to

50% in 20 minutes on the iPhone 17 and

the iPhone 17 Pro. However, the iPhone

Air can only charge up to 50% in 30

minutes, and that's using a 20 watt

adapter, not a 40 watt. Now, the next

thing you need to do is change what the

action button and the camera control

buttons actually do. So, for example, if

we go into our settings right here and

we scroll down, we do have a menu option

for action button. And what this does is

it allows you to perform certain actions

by simply pressing on that action button

on the side. So if you come from a

device that didn't have this before,

this is actually highly useful. It's

much more useful than camera control in

my opinion. So some of my favorite ones

to set this to are the flashlight. That

way at night you could easily just press

that button instead of searching on your

screen for a button to press.

Flashlight's really good. Also, you can

go to controls and choose a specific

control center control to activate when

you press on the action button. So, one

of my favorites right here is actually

setting a reminder. So, now, you know,

I'm somebody who sets reminders all day

long. So, if I, you know, press in on my

action button, it will prompt me to set

a reminder right there. I can do that.

Press a check mark. I'm done without

ever having to go into the application

or really doing much at all. So, that's

what I use it for most of the time, but

you can change it to any controls. You

can also choose a shortcut or you can

just have it do nothing, which I think

is a waste. I think you should change

this to do something. And then as far as

camera control goes, I mentioned this

earlier, but you can go into your camera

and then into camera control. And right

here under launch camera, you can change

what actually launches when you press

camera control. So you could have it be

like Snapchat, for example, or

Instagram. I could have that launch.

Even if you don't actually use it for

like, you know, all the gestures and

everything, if you just want a quick way

to launch one of your favorite apps, you

can just press on it right there and

then it will go ahead and launch an

application just like so. And it will

open up right to where you could

actually post or a story. Now, we're

going to show the Air some love because

we haven't really given the Air too much

love. So, let's talk about this because

the next thing you need to do is

understand how to use photographic

styles. And there's actually a new style

this year. So, if you go into your

camera right here and you go into photos

and you tap on your grid right here, you

will see that we do have a styles button

right there. If you tap on that, it will

show you these different styles that you

have along with the tone, the color, and

the palette that you see up top. Now,

these are fully customizable. So, if you

go into this square right here, this is

how you can change the tone and the

color. So, if you take a look up top,

this will change the tone and the color

of that photo. So, let me put it over

something so you can actually see it

changing. Uh, so yeah, you can see the

color and the tone changing right there.

So, if you have a certain aesthetic, you

can change this and kind of save it.

That way, all your photos look the same.

It can be really nice. And then down

here at the bottom, we have this little

slider. That's the intensity. So, that

will not change the color or the tone,

but that will change how intense that

effect is that you have set. And keep in

mind, you can add this after you take a

photo as well. So you don't have to have

this set up right from the get- go. You

could change this after the fact when

you go to edit a photo. So if we have it

how we like, we could just go ahead and

X out of it, and it will save that.

However, I did want to show you the new

one that we have here. So we have cool

rose, we have neutral, and bright is the

new one for iOS 26 and the iPhone 17. So

now we have a new one called bright. Of

course, it does what the name implies.

It just makes your photos a little bit

more bright and you can kind of change,

you know, the colors and the tone right

there along with the intensity of the

new bright photographic style. Now,

here's something else you need to do on

your iPhone pretty much right away. And

this might just be a me thing because I

have multiple phone numbers and email

addresses, but you want to remove your

phone numbers and your emails from

messages, phone, and FaceTime. That way,

you're not getting all these different

notifications from these different

emails and phone numbers. Maybe it's

just me, but let me show you what I So,

if you go into your settings here, we're

just going to search for messages and go

into our messages settings. And if I go

down here under iMessage, we have send

and receive. So, as you can see, I'm

able to receive messages from five

different addresses. I may not want

that. I may only want people contacting

me from my phone number. So, if I go

into there, what you want to do is

uncheck any of the emails that you might

have or any of the other additional

phone numbers you might have and only

set it to, you know, what you actually

want to be reached at. So, I don't want

to be reached at any of these emails. I

only want to be reached on this phone

from my phone number. That's it. And

then in the phone application, it's kind

of similar. So, if you go into phone and

then go to calls on other devices, I

would recommend actually turning this

off. So, some people might like this,

but I really do not like getting calls

on all my devices. Maybe it's cuz I have

too many devices, but I would recommend

turning this off if you have more than

like one device in your room. Otherwise,

you'll see those calls on your iPad,

your Mac. Every time you get a phone

call, it will ring on all those devices.

So, could be useful if you're maybe, you

know, always busy or or hard of hearing,

but for a lot of people, I think you

should turn that off. And this leads me

right to the next thing you need to do

on your iPhone 17, and that is to screen

unknown callers and select ask reason

for calling. So, what this does is if

you receive a call from an unknown

number, a number that you do not have

saved, it will be an automated voice

that asks them why they are calling and

who they are. That way, you're forced to

see, you know, who's calling and why.

and that will show up on your lock

screen and also in your dynamic island

before the phone even rings. You'll see

that notification without the phone

ringing. And then after they say their

name and why they're calling, it will go

through and you now at least know who

you're going to be talking to. And then

the final thing you need to do on your

brand new iPhone 17 is configure your

screenshot options. Because with iOS 26,

screenshots are treated much differently

than they were before in iOS 18 and on

previous iPhones when you first get it.

So go into your settings here and we're

going to go back and we're going to go

into the general section and you want to

go down because we have a brand new

option for screen capture. And in here

we have multiple options to choose from.

So we have full screen previews which

means that when you take a screenshot it

automatically goes into this full screen

mode. You can turn that off if you want

it to go back to the old style. So if

you turn that off, take a screenshot, it

goes down there in the bottom left and

then you tap on it to bring it up to

full screen. I personally like full

screen preview so I could easily mark it

up. And also we have visual lookup now

on all iPhone 17 models which is an

Apple intelligence feature which means

that you could circle something and it

will automatically search it on Google

and you could also ask Chat GPT about

what you see by tapping on this icon

down in the bottom left. You could ask

Chat GPT if you maybe have a screenshot

of a plant of an animal. You can ask

Chat GPT you know what it is or what you

should do with a certain screenshot that

you've taken. All of that right there.

Also we do have CarPlay screenshots. So,

if you have CarPlay in your vehicle, you

might want to turn CarPlay screenshots

either on or off. If you turn it off,

that means that when you take a

screenshot while you're connected to

CarPlay, it will, you know, only take a

screenshot of your phone, which is where

you took the screenshot instead of the

phone and CarPlay. So, if you turn that

on, it will continue to take screenshots

of your CarPlay interface and your

iPhone every time you take a screenshot,

which could be kind of annoying. I

personally keep that off. And then you

do also have format down here. So you

can now shoot photos or take photos

screenshots in HDR. So higher resolution

screenshots and this also applies to

screen recording. So if you want to have

higher resolution screen recordings, you

should change this to HDR as well. And

if you want to see more softwarebased

features to change in iOS 26, I will

have a video linked down below where I

showed you the first settings you need

to change on iOS 26. Those of course

will apply to the iPhone 17 as well, but

this video is more specific about the

iPhone 17. So, I tried to keep it that

way, but if you want to watch that

video, it will be linked down below. But

anyways, guys, those are the first 24

things that you need to do on your

iPhone 17, 17 Pro, or iPhone Air. So,

hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you

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