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 ...

Did you see an emergency alert? It's was hard to miss as it should have blared out of every TV broadcast, radio and cellphone in the United States with a warning tone. The alert was part of the ...

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 ...

Brace yourselves: your cell phone will play another sudden, loud alarm at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s national test of its alert system through all ...

Apple has been running tests with iOS 17.2 beta since last month. In addition to the new Journal app, this version brings some other new features for iPhone and iPad users. With iOS 17.2 beta 4, which ...

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.