php.ini settings are back to default when server restarts

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Topic says it all. if i change for example max_input_vars to 5000 and i restart the http server it will go back to default (1000) and it does that with all the settings. Expected behaviour is that settings I set will be saved as default.

running dev 17 with php 8.0.15 and apache 2.4.43