random sounds coming from my phone at night when ringer is on

For the past few months I have been turning my ringer on at night and i will randomly hear random noises coming from my phone (these sounds are not notification sounds.). before then when i never turned my ringer on at night and i never heard those noises. it wasn’t until just now when i was about to fall asleep i was awoken to a sound of a man GRUNTING coming from my iphone. this is insane and honestly quite disturbing. i had no apps open either. WHY DID MY IPHONE MAKE A SOUND OF A MAN GRUNTING

iPhone 14 Pro Max

Posted on Aug 26, 2024 11:38 PM

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Posted on Aug 29, 2024 12:38 PM

It's Grindr!!! They just added a stupid "grunt" sound. Thanks to the person posting above for mentioning this because as soon as I googled, I found the idiotic sound. It was driving me crazy! Search "Grindr grunt sound" and you'll have it.

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Aug 27, 2024 7:51 AM in response to kobi281

Subscribing. This has been happening for me too. I can’t figure it out! Usually always late at night after I turn my ringer on. Quite disturbing. I have been trying to turn off sound notification settings for different apps that I suspect to no success. Feels recent, can only remember it happening in the last few weeks or so.


My current working theory is it semi-aligns with the 1-hour post being online with Grindr so when it goes “offline.” Not sure if you are a user of this app as well. But I can’t find any support documentation referencing this noise, and I have sound notifications turned off for that app, so it shouldn’t be happening. But that is the only correlation I have been able to come up with currently.

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