iOS 17 Default Notification Sound has changed

Your new sound on the last update will force me to a different phone supplier

No, when it comes to your job or for others here, family care &/or wellbeing, is most serious! None of us set alarms because we enjoy them. But when we do, they must be effective!

I left my iPhone for Android all the way back 2016 for a number of reasons but the lack of customization was one of them. Years later I finally got back into the apple ecosystem with my iPad Pro just now to find out that they still haven't allowed you to change your notification sounds.

yeah I also struggle to hear, and now I’m struggling to know which app is notifying me, I also feel like the vibrations have been lighter feeling, where I work it’s nice to know who’s messaging, it’s so annoying they changed it and we can’t change it all, they need to let us have control over how loud our sounds are, what they sound like, and how strong the vibrations is, I’m so ****** off and annoyed at Apple for this new update.

jdpizarro wrote:

Why we need to do a feedback? Why not asking the consumer what they like? Why not read or listen what people said about the issues in which people are complaining. Why Apple have to wait a long period of time to fix things up. Why not repair it right away? This rebound sound is way too low for the notifications, can you guys (Apple) tell us how to fix it?

Why provide feedback via the Product Feedback portal? Simple... Apple are not here.

Other than the Site Moderators, Apple neither monitor nor participate within this user-to-user technical forum. Complaining here will achieve nothing. Nobody here can fix the issue of which you (and others complain).

it will not allow us to change it. I don’t like the new default notification for my apps. You can’t hear the rebound notification. I am requesting for it go back to Tri Tone so your users can hear the notification

It began with the update for my ipad ISO 17.1.1. I only noticed that it

affected my security camera app's notifications sound on the iPad initially

(early October 2023). The default sound went from the Tri-tone sound to

something that is BARELY AUDIBLE. I searched and searched and finally

discovered through my searching the sound is called "Rebound".

My iphone SE was just updated (11/10/2023) to 17.1.1 yesterday and just like

the ipad the default sound for apps other than my security app have also

changed with Apple's default Tri-tone to Rebound sound. Why would apple change

the default to something that the consumer has relied on for years without

offering a solution to revert their change from Tri-tone to Rebound? I have

noted that outer apps sound is also affected thus producing the same sound as

default.

Myself, like a few others here have come to rely on that sound to awaken or

alert us for numerous reasons. I too am not 20 something and i appreciate a

vibrant and distinct sound that Tri-tone offers. Apples choice to replace

Tri-tone with Rebound is a vulnerability to the loyal consumers of Apple

product because it places us in jeopardy and in harm’s way and since it's

Apple's choosing of the default Rebound tone.

Example:

Security app: The app is configured to produce notifications pushed to my

apple devices, the default sound has been changed by Apple to Rebound which is

some super quite barely audible sound, especially when awake, it can't awaken

anyone from a sleep. If there is an intruder or a intrusion that the cameras

detect, I will no longer hear the notification to be alerted as early as

possible. That puts me and my family at a very real risk of intrusions or

circumstances that could potentially put our lives at risk.

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Is there a more direct way to get their attention than the comment I've submitted on the Apple Feedback forum?:

"The new iPhone 'Default Notification Sound' (which is not user changeable) has overwhelmingly proven that it's totally in-effective as an Alert sound. This laughably 'timid' and gravely subdued sound is just too quiet to hear in a normal environment. As a result, I have missed appointments, deadlines, Alerts from my Home Security system, plus numerous business & personal commitments. I might as well just take a daily tranquilizer every morning and stay in bed.

Please bring back the 'Tri-Tone' alert sound, or give the user control over what sound to use.

And please, just delete the useless 'Rebound' sound."

I hate that you cannot change this stupid sound, why can’t I choose how my phone sounds like? May I Apple? I mean if it’s not too much to ask, of course. Is not like I paid a ridiculous amount of money for this phone, back to vibrate I guess 🙄.

Hi, were you able to revert back to previous iOS version? If yes, can you please share how to do this? I updated my phone with 17.1.1 last night. Now I can barely hear the alert sound from a very critical app. Thanks

Hi LLwsn76, were you able to revert back to previous iOS version?  If yes, can you please share how to do this?  I updated my phone with 17.1.1 last night(11/23/23).  Now I can barely hear the alert sound from a very critical app.  Thanks

No you can’t, call Apple Support I was informed that they don’t monitor this community support, you need to call them about your issue, I had posted a message to have it removed., this problem should have been resolved by not letting it continue to go to other people’s phones!!!!!! No way to fix no way to change it back no way to delete update!!”

I just got the IOS 17 on my Iphone and that sound is terrible. Change to change is not always good. Even Microsoft Outlook let's you go back to the classic look if you do not like their update. Apple used to be the shinning leader. It is losing ground quickly. Customers should be able to chose their own standard alert sounds. The Iphone 15 is not significantly better than the 12. No Flip screens, nothing radically new is the design. Apple used to be all about design and a step ahead of everyone else. It is no longer. I'm confident that Steve Jobs would be innovating at a faster clip. Where is the advanced AI Chat GBT or Apple's own version of it included into the iPhone? That is where apple should be at this point. Please let's us change the new tone which is very silent and irritating.

Warning I was informed they don’t monitor this community! But trust me it has ears, my very negative opinions were quickly removed from here earlier! Don’t mention lawyers, other phone makers, insects invading your devices, or the color Red! Or your speech will be censored!! Fair warning to you all!

yes, I too had a similar scenario occur. It's probably monitored by an AI bot but Apple doesn't seem to appreciate that type of chatter when Apple (the developers) decide to go off the rails and upend the routines of loyal consumers who have come to rely on Apple's products and historic behaviors for decades. Yes DECADES