Apple’s newest iPhone has a new feature that some may find helpful, but others may find annoying. The iPhone 14 has an optional startup sound that you can disable. This startup sound is typically a loud and obnoxious beep that is heard when the phone starts up. Some people find this sound to be helpful because it helps to wake up the phone before they have to start their day. Other people find this sound to be annoying because it is always on and it can be heard in the background of most conversations.
As pointed out by @AppleSWUpdates on Twitter, an optional accessibility feature in the new iPhone 14 and 14 Pro lets you enable a chime for your phone, so you can hear when your phone is turned on or off. When you get your new iPhone, the feature will be located in the Settings app by going to Accessibility > Power On & Off Sounds. It’s sadly not the same chime used in Macs.
Since this is an accessibility feature, it’s mainly made to help vision-impaired people know when their phone is turned off/on or when it gets restarted. It’s still neat, though, even if you have perfect vision. I know I’d probably turn it on if I were to buy an iPhone 14.
There’s a chance the feature rolls out to older iPhones with the iOS 16 update, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Source: @AppleSWUpdates Via: MacRumors
