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 ...

Master the art of tailor-made alerts and never miss an important notification again You can set different notification sounds for calls, emails, messages, and each app on your Android phone. Changing ...

Having your Galaxy S23 suddenly stop making sounds for incoming notifications, texts, emails, alarms, and other prompts can certainly be disruptive. You likely rely on audible feedback to stay ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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It’s almost crazy to think it, but for the last decade Apple has not allowed you to change the default ringtone, notification sounds, or alerts on your Apple Watch. Finally, watchOS 11 gives us this ...