Change the notification sound in iOS 17

With update to iOS 17, you can hardly hear the notification sound. It sounds like a water drop. Is there a way to change it back to the tone I had before. It’s making me crazy. And I’m also having a problem getting my iPhone voice when I restart my phone. If there is no fix I want to down grade. HELP.

Posted on Sep 23, 2023 6:01 PM

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Oct 12, 2023 7:40 AM in response to Show Dogs

Apple needs to correct this. The default notification sound is too quiet, and the inability to change it to something else or adjust the level is extremely disappointing and contrary to every principle of good UI/UX engineering. Apple should accept that they made a mistake here and roll it back, or better yet, give us actual options for notifications of third-party apps, such as allowing us to set the volume and pick a sound we can hear.

Oct 29, 2023 12:35 AM in response to danceswithanxiety

In previous iterations of ios, atleast users could chose preferred notification sound from the given list. With ios 17, that basic option is also removed. Are the developers not capable enough to provide end users with basic functionalities? They should understand providing more and more non functional and complicated features does not make any sense. Let the feature thing be android thing. Bugfree seamless experience has always been the USP of apple. Which is mostly gone these days.

Oct 29, 2023 9:32 AM in response to saurav1983

saurav1983 wrote:

In previous iterations of ios, atleast users could chose preferred notification sound from the given list. With ios 17, that basic option is also removed. Are the developers not capable enough to provide end users with basic functionalities? They should understand providing more and more non functional and complicated features does not make any sense. Let the feature thing be android thing.

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Bugfree seamless experience has always been the USP of apple.

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Change the notification sound in iOS 17

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