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Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid (www.macrumors.com)

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[–] jqubed 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I thought we’d seen it all when they finally let people change the default notification sound in iOS 17!

[–] RGB3x3 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm sorry, I'm browsing from /all. You don't actually mean they only started allowing notification sound customization 17 versions into their OS, right? You're making a joke?

Because holy hell, what basic functionality that should have been included over a decade ago.

[–] osprior 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You've always been able to change it for built in applications (messages, mail, phone, etc.). I assume the above poster was joking? Or maybe there's some nuanced feature they added around it recently.

[–] jqubed 5 points 8 months ago

You could only change certain applications, if they allowed it. But the general, default notification sound was decided by Apple and couldn’t be changed until 17.2.

[–] simplejack 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You could change the defaults for a number of things, but not the miscellaneous stuff. The “default” category is new.

It’s really weird, because Apple has been selling tones forever, and they had a tone selection component already. It’s like someone just never prioritized the day of work in their jira backlog.

[–] jqubed 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You could change certain notification sounds, like for iMessage, the built-in mail app, ringtones, etc. Individual apps could set their own custom notification sound as well, or enable a setting that allowed users to change them. But there was also a default, “general” notification sound set by Apple that would be used by any app that hadn’t specified a notification sound, and that could not be changed by the user. It was perhaps the single most annoying thing when I switched from Android.

More specifically, it looks like the change came in iOS 17.2 after Apple changed the default notification sound for everyone in iOS 17 from the one they’d used for years. I guess enough people hated the change and wanted to go back that they finally gave users an option to pick their own.

Still can’t change the Apple Watch default sound, apparently.

[–] tigerjerusalem 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I will be shocked if they figure out how to use MP3 files as notification sounds. Then I'll believe we are truly living in the future.

[–] jqubed 2 points 8 months ago

Now that’s just fantasy talk