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 ...

If you get a lot of notifications, your phone probably dings, beeps, or chimes quite a bit. You hear your phone a lot, so it pays to spend a little time customizing the notification sounds to your ...

Whether you use an Android or iPhone, you can set custom notification sounds for ordinary phone calls and text messages from your favorite contacts. If you spend a lot of time on Snapchat, you'll be ...

With your Samsung Galaxy S22, or any Galaxy device that can send and receive text messages for matter, you can tell who among your contacts texted you just by listening to the notification sounds. Of ...

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 ...

Alongside the dozens of new iPhone features found in iOS 17, Apple also took the opportunity to update the collection of ringtone and alert sounds. There’s a bunch of new tones to choose from in the ...

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 ...

You can change the “ping” to someone saying the word “hummus,” but there are other less chickpea-centric options. Maybe you’re more of a “yoink” or “plink” person. In the age of remote work, round-the ...

Apple has been running tests with iOS 17.2 beta since last month. In addition to the new Journal app, this version brings some other new features for iPhone and iPad users. With iOS 17.2 beta 4, which ...

Kyle has a degree in Film, Television, and Cultural Studies and has loved video games for as long as he can remember. He's owned every PlayStation, dabbled with the occasional Xbox, and even owned a ...