Changing app alert tones is a great way to distinguish between apps on your iPhone. That way you can know when you get a text, as opposed to an email, without taking your iPhone out of your pocket.

First things first: If you haven't already updated the software on your iPhone, you'll want to do that first. Here's how to do it. After following the steps mentioned above, all apps that utilize ...

With iOS 17, Apple changed the default iPhone notification sound – and many users didn’t like it. Some said it was too quiet; others simply preferred the old sound. But there wasn’t much you could do ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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