Apple will finally let you change your iPhone’s default notification sound Macworld
If you don’t like the default notification sound on your iPhone, tough luck. Apple hasn’t provided any means of changing it going back as far as we can remember–the iPhone’s ascending three-note sound has become somewhat synonymous with smartphone notifications. Of course, Apple has always let you change the notification sound for certain apps such as Messages Mail and even sometimes for specific types of notifications (like your Ring doorbell), but if it doesn’t, you get what Apple gives you which, until iOS 17 was called Tri-tone. When iOS 17 launched, Apple updated a bunch of tones and sounds, changing the default alert from Tri-tone to Rebound. It’s a less harsh sound, but some complain it’s also less noticeable and perhaps quieter, and they want to go back. Until now, they couldn’t. With iOS 17.2, Apple’s going to do you one better: Not only can you restore the sound to Tri-tone, you can finally change the default notification sound and haptics to whatever you want. First spotted in iOS 17.2 beta 4, all you have to do is open the Settings app, tap Sound & Haptics, and look for the new Default Alerts setting. Tap that and you can restore the notification sound to Tri-tone (you’ll find that within Classic), or use any other alert sound you wish. You can also change the haptics for your default sound. It’s an overdue change, to say the least. Couples everywhere will no longer need to ask “Was that my phone or yours?” when an alert comes in. Thank you, Apple. Author: Jason Cross, Senior Editor I have written about technology for my entire professional life - over 25 years. I enjoy learning about how complicated technology works and explaining it in a way anyone can understand. Recent stories by Jason Cross: Pay no attention to the police–NameDrop is perfectly safe for kids We may have seen the last of Sunbird’s iMessage-on-Android service Nothing’s iMessage app for Android is an instant disaster Original Article: https://www.macworld.com/article/2156872/ios-17-2-change-default-alert-notification-sound-tri-tone-rebound.html Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/821388D6-EB9D-47BE-88D0-126FCAD35613%40gmail.com.
