If you've ever been in a public place and heard the distinctive trill of an iPhone ringtone, looked down at your phone and realized the call wasn't for you — you're not alone. But it doesn't have to ...

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 ...

Over the years, Google has worked hard to add accessibility features to Android, both to make Android itself more accessible and to use Android’s smarts to make the world more accessible. The latest ...

Google has announced a Sound Notifications feature for Android. The accessibility feature provides those who are distracted or hard of hearing with visual notifications of “critical” sounds. Sounds ...

You can change notification sounds for emails and calendar events directly within the new Outlook app for Windows. In classic Outlook, you can choose whether to play a sound when a new email arrives.

Google’s Android 12 and 13 have a special feature that allows users to set sound detection notifications so that deaf or hard of hearing users can detect alarms and important sounds otherwise ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The feature could be useful for people who are deaf or hard of hearing The feature could be useful for people who ...

Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. In addition to her current role, she's worked for CNET's video, ...

You can set a notification sound to play whenever you receive an alert through the Facebook application on your Android phone. Use a specific sound that differs from the sounds for email or text ...

Google on Thursday announced a new Android accessibility feature called Sound Notifications. In a blog post co-written by artificial intelligence product manager Sagar Savla and accessibility product ...

If you're a Snapchat Plus subscriber, you can change your notification sounds by setting up custom sounds for friends and groups. Tap and hold a conversation and choose Chat Settings, then ...

You can configure most of the sound settings on the iPhone in the Sounds section of the Settings app. However, to change the sounds for Facebook Messages, you must configure the settings within ...