- Customizing Your Home Screens
- Working with the Settings App
- Setting the Screens Brightness, View, Text Size, and Wallpaper
- Setting Keyboard, Language, and Format Options
- Choosing the Sounds Your iPhone Makes
- Setting Up Notifications and the Notification Center
- Configuring the Control Center
- Setting Do Not Disturb Preferences
- Setting Privacy and Location Services Preferences
- Setting Passcode, Touch ID, and Auto-Lock Preferences
- Setting Restrictions for Content and Apps
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Choosing the Sounds Your iPhone Makes
Sound is one important way your iPhone uses to communicate with you. You can configure the sounds the phone uses in two ways. One is by choosing the general sounds your iPhone makes, which is covered in this section. You can also configure sounds specific apps use to notify you about certain events; this is covered in the next section.
To configure your iPhone’s general sounds, do the following:
On the Settings screen, tap Sounds.
- If you want your iPhone to also vibrate when it rings, set the Vibrate on Ring switch to on (green).
- If you want your iPhone to vibrate when you have it muted, set the Vibrate on Silent switch to on (green).
- Set the volume of the ringer and alert tones by dragging the slider to the left or right.
- If you want to also be able to change this volume using the volume buttons on the side of the phone, set the Change with Buttons switch to on (green).
Tap Ringtone. On the resulting screen, you can set the sound and vibration your iPhone uses when a call comes in.
- Swipe up and down the screen to see all the ringtones available to you. There are two sections of sounds on this screen: RINGTONES and ALERT TONES. These work in the same way; alert tones tend to be shorter sounds. At the top of the RINGTONES section, you see any custom ringtones you have configured on your phone; a dark line separates those from the default ringtones that are below the custom ones.
- Tap a sound, and it plays.
- Repeat steps 7 and 8 until you have selected the sound you want to have as your general ringtone.
- If necessary, swipe down the screen so you see the Vibration section at the top.
Tap Vibration. A list of Standard and Custom vibrations available is displayed.
- Swipe up and down the screen to see all the vibrations available. The STANDARD section contains the default vibrations while the CUSTOM section shows vibrations you have created.
- Tap a vibration. It “plays” so you can feel it.
- Repeat steps 12 and 13 until you’ve selected the general vibration you want to use; you can tap None at the bottom of the Vibration screen below the CUSTOM section if you don’t want to have a general vibration.
Tap Ringtone.
Tap Sounds. The ringtone you selected is shown on the Sounds screen next to the Ringtone label.
Tap Text Tone.
- Use steps 7–16 to set the sound and vibration used when you receive a new text. The process works the same as for ringtones, though the screens look a bit different. For example, the ALERT TONES section is at the top of the screen because you are more likely to want a short sound for new texts.
When you’re done setting the Text tone, tap Sounds.
- Using the same pattern as you did for ringtones and text tones, set the sound and vibrations for the rest of the events you see.
- If you don’t want your iPhone to make a sound when you lock it, slide the Lock Sounds switch to off (white). Your iPhone no longer makes this sound when you press the Sleep/Wake button to put it to sleep and lock it.
- If you don’t like the audible feedback when you tap keys on the iPhone’s virtual keyboard, slide the Keyboard Clicks switch to off (white) to disable that sound. The keyboard is silent as you type on it.
Tap Settings. Your iPhone uses the sounds and vibrations you selected to notify you of events you want to be aware of.
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