You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...

Are those tinny ring tones making you jumpy? How about a new kind of phone that can make it sound like you're literally in the middle of a soothing forest stream? A new line of multimedia phones has ...

As someone who's all about planning ahead, this newly discovered iPhone hack is a game changer for me. After learning how to hear conversations from across the room and playing around in the Shortcuts ...

A simple charging hack has gone viral, with people customising their phones to respond with funny sounds and messages every ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. We've come a long way since Breaking Bad first aired. The ...

If your iPhone can run iOS 14 or later, you can set up the Sound Recognition feature, which alerts you to critical sounds — like a smoke alarm, doorbell, or crying baby. Even if you didn't hear the ...

Samsung easily makes some of the most widely-lauded smartphones around. But, when it comes to the overall user experience, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best at everything. Audio, for ...

iOS 14 introduced a new feature on the iPhone called Sound Recognition that instructs the iPhone to always listen for specific sounds. Once the iPhone hears the sound, it can play an alarm to warn you ...