الاعدادات على التليفون.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation would be something like:

el-e‘dādāt ‘ala t-tilifōn
or more carefully: el-e‘dādāt ‘ala et-tilifōn

A few notes:

• الاعدادات = el-e‘dādāt
• على = ‘ala
• التليفون is usually pronounced with an assimilated t, so you hear something like et-tilifōn rather than a clear el-tilifōn

The ‘ represents the Arabic letter ع, which is a throat sound English doesn’t have.

Not really. By itself, الاعدادات على التليفون is more naturally understood as a phrase, not a complete sentence.

It means something like:

• the settings on the phone

This kind of phrase is very common in:

• app menus
• labels
• headings
• short interface text
• replies where part of the sentence is understood from context

In normal speech, a full sentence might be something like:

• الإعدادات على التليفون. = The settings are on the phone.
  Even then, Arabic can leave out are, just like other present-tense nominal sentences.

Because both nouns are definite:

• الاعدادات = the settings
• التليفون = the phone

So the whole phrase is:

• the settings on the phone

If you removed الـ, the meaning would become more indefinite:

• اعدادات على تليفون = settings on a phone

That is grammatically possible in some contexts, but it is not the same meaning.

Because Arabic often uses على to mean on in the same way English does for devices, screens, platforms, and surfaces.

So:

• على التليفون = on the phone

This is natural when talking about something appearing, existing, or being found on a device.

By contrast, في التليفون literally means in the phone, and it can sometimes be used, but it often feels different in nuance. It may suggest something more like being inside the device or stored internally rather than simply available on its interface.

So for menus, apps, settings, and content shown on a device, على is very natural.

This is because ت is a sun letter.

In Arabic, when الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound of the article is not pronounced. Instead, the following consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: التليفون
• pronounced: et-tilifōn or it-tilifōn

You still write الـ, but you do not pronounce the l.

Other common examples:

• الشمس → esh-shams
• الناس → en-nās
• الطالب → et-tālib

In standard spelling, yes. The more formal spelling is:

• الإعدادات

In casual writing, especially online, people often leave the hamza off and write:

• الاعدادات

So the sentence you gave is very common in informal Arabic writing, but the more standard spelling would be:

• الإعدادات على التليفون

The pronunciation does not change much for the learner here; this is mostly a spelling issue.

The ending -ات is a very common Arabic plural ending.

So:

• إعداد = setting / preparation / configuration
• إعدادات = settings

This -ات ending is often called the sound feminine plural, although many words that take it are not feminine in the everyday semantic sense.

For learners, the important point is:

• إعدادات is plural
• so it means settings, not setting

تليفون is very common in Egyptian Arabic and is easy to understand across the Arab world, but it feels more colloquial than some more formal words.

Other possibilities include:

• هاتف = phone, more formal / standard
• موبايل = mobile phone, very common in everyday speech
• جوال = common in some other Arab countries, less Egyptian

In Egypt, depending on context, people often say:

• تليفون
• موبايل

So التليفون sounds natural in Egyptian Arabic.

It depends on what you mean.

• إعدادات التليفون = the phone settings / the settings of the phone
• الإعدادات على التليفون = the settings on the phone

These are similar, but not identical.

Use إعدادات التليفون when you mean the settings belonging to the phone itself.

Use الإعدادات على التليفون when you want to emphasize location, like saying the settings are found on the phone rather than somewhere else.

So if you are naming the settings menu itself, إعدادات التليفون may often sound more direct.
If you are talking about where the settings are, الإعدادات على التليفون works well.

It is very close to English in this phrase:

• الاعدادات = the settings
• على التليفون = on the phone

So the structure is:

• noun + prepositional phrase

That matches English pretty well:

• the settings on the phone

This makes the phrase relatively easy for English speakers to process compared with some other Arabic structures.