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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The At a Glance widget in the Google Pixel launcher is great at keeping you updated on certain events. As useful as it is, Google is still adding functionality to it. According to a new report from ...

Pixel phones already offer cough and snore detection when you sleep, as well as always-on Now Playing song detection, and Google is now planning to add loud sound alerts in At a Glance. About APK ...

After the release of iOS 17, iPhone users complained online about Apple changing the default alert tone. Some said the new alert tone wasn't loud enough to wake them up if their s ...

Is it possible to set the alert sound volume to a fixed, non-variable value? I know you can control the volume from the sounds preference pane, but its a percentage of system volume, and thus changes.