Are those tinny ring tones making you jumpy? How about a new kind of phone that can make it sound like you're literally in the middle of a soothing forest stream? A new line of multimedia phones has ...

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 ...

To change your Samsung phone's notification sound, go to "Sounds and vibration" in the Settings app. You can import audio by downloading sounds to your phone and ...

As someone who's all about planning ahead, this newly discovered iPhone hack is a game changer for me. After learning how to hear conversations from across the room and playing around in the Shortcuts ...

To use Separate App Sound on a Samsung Galaxy phone, go to Settings > Sounds and Vibration > Separate App Sound, toggle it on, choose the app (e.g., Spotify), and select the audio device (e.g., ...

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One disappointment for me with my Pre is the lack of customization in ringtones. I doubt that I'm the only person who's boundaries between work and personal life have become increasingly blurred ...

If your iPhone can run iOS 14 or later, you can set up the Sound Recognition feature, which alerts you to critical sounds — like a smoke alarm, doorbell, or crying baby. Even if you didn't hear the ...

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iOS 14 introduced a new feature on the iPhone called Sound Recognition that instructs the iPhone to always listen for specific sounds. Once the iPhone hears the sound, it can play an alarm to warn you ...