Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...

The default notification noise in iOS 17 was too quiet, and couldn't be changed — but that's been fixed in iOS 17.2. Here's how to select a better default alert noise. Apple's release of iOS 17 ...

You can change notification sounds for emails and calendar events directly within the new Outlook app for Windows. In classic Outlook, you can choose whether to play a sound when a new email arrives.

The fourth beta of iOS 17.2 that Apple released today adds a much-desired feature, the option to change the default notification alert. Under Sounds & Haptics, there's a new "Default Alerts" section ...

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–thus the iPhone’s long-standing ...

Yes, the sounds in iOS 17 are a bit different. Here's how to get the old sounds back. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac In iOS 17, many of the default sounds for notifications, alarms and timers ...

Turning off the outgoing message sound on your iPhone can be a simple yet effective way to reduce unnecessary noise, especially if you find the default "woosh" sound annoying. Here’s a step-by-step ...

Apple is gearing up to elevate user experience with the upcoming iOS 17.2 update just on the heels of the iPhone 15 series launch, While previous iOS versions primarily focused on bug fixes, this one ...