I wanted my Android phone to play a sound loud enough to let me know when it started and stopped charging. The default options weren’t good, so I went the third-party way to set things up on my device ...

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 ...

106409: Mac OS X 10.0: How to Add an Alert Sound Lynn Barton recently sent us an email describing how to add a custom alert sound in Mac OS X. Coincidentally, the same procedure is described in this ...

The sound you choose to notify you when you get a text, call, or social media update is important since it's what you'll primarily need to listen for to know when someone is trying to contact you.

Relive the glory days of custom ringtones. Relive the glory days of custom ringtones. is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.