Apple iPhone 4s-What does "lock sounds" mean

You guys are so funny, 😁 my son and I had a good laugh reading your back-and-forth, self-evident, form, respect, sarcasm, all that about the Lock Sound button.

Here is our story: we were searching "what does lock sound do" because for the past few weeks, sound stopped working in my son's games--just games, like Asphalt 8, Minecraft, etc., but not other apps--I can still play the podcasts without any problem.

I checked all the Sound settings and couldn't figure out why. My son played the games quietly for a couple of weeks, which was fine with me, but he decided to fool around the Sound settings himself today and stumbled upon the Lock Sound button.

Without knowing what it was for, he simply switched it on and off, and it brought music back to his games!

He showed me what he did, and we decided to search for an explanation by asking Siri, which brought us to your discussions, and had a good laugh.

So, what does the Lock Button do indeed?

We'll appreciate both expert and humorous answers.

J.C.

Political correctness gone haywire. Even an apology in advance is not polite anymore.

Also, as long as an internet discussion is not closed, it has no time-limit for any new post. I've never heard of it being considered "bad form".

I think modular747 was just a troublemaker and should learn to accept an apology when one is offered. No such thing as a sarcastic apology.

Anyway, he's gone now.

But concerning the "lock sounds" button: it's far from self-evident, mainly due to the plural used for 1 sound.

It really only controls the sound when you set the iphone off with the on/off button.

An explanation under the setting, like other settings have, would demystify the loch-sounds-function.

I just don't understand why your sons games suddenly produced sounds. It shouldn't have any effect.

IF it were self evident, the. What does it do? Lock in the sounds that have been set. Looking down at all the replies below, which seem to be just argumentative and not solving the first issue. I still don't know what it is for

When you lock the phone (i.e. press the on/off button) the phone will make a noise. If you don't want that noise you switch Lock Sounds off. Quite depressingly simple isn't it?

In addition to the confusion created by using the plural "sounds" when, at least from the user's perspective, it is a single sound, there is confusion created by the lack of clarifying quotation marks – "LOCK" SOUNDS. While it may seem ridiculous to punctuate a label, if the company is determined to use this label it is essential.

The reason some people are confused by Lock Soundsis that "lock" can be meant as either a noun or a verb, and the context where it appears (Settings > Sounds), which should help distinguish between the two meanings, is of no help whatsoever because the items in the list are inconsistently structured. Vibrate on Ring and Change [volume] with Button contain both verbs and nouns – activities and that events that trigger them (i.e., do this when that occurs). But New Mail, Sent Mail, Facebook Post, and others like them, are noun phrases that describe only triggers. The activity (make a sound) is implied. Others, such as Keyboard Clicks,describe activities and triggers, but in reverse order (i.e., when that occurs, do this). Thus, there is nothing to help the user understand that Lock in this context is not a verb referencing an activity performed by the phone (e.g., lock the phone) nor does it, by itself, reference a trigger (when the phone is locked). In this case, it refers to the sound itself (a "locking" sound), similar to the way Ringtone and Calendar Alerts identify the sound itself. This is completely unintuitive, particularly in this context.

The list should be structured consistently either as triggers only (Incoming call, Facebook post, Mail sent, Phone locked), with secondary levels to choose the activity (e.g., Vibrate or Ring), or as both activities and triggers (Sound on Incoming Call, Sound on Facebook post, Sound on Mail sent, Sound on activating lock, Sound on keyboard press).

Bunnyslippers wrote:

In addition to the confusion created by using the plural "sounds" when, at least from the user's perspective, it is a single sound, there is confusion created by the lack of clarifying quotation marks – "LOCK" SOUNDS. While it may seem ridiculous to punctuate a label, if the company is determined to use this label it is essential.

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Quotation marks would not be the correct punctuation as that would mean that the word was being used in a non-standard way. I would find such improper use of punctuation quite grating. Fortunately, very few people seem to have an problem understanding this feature so I doubt Apple is likely to make such a change.

Meg, the word is being used in a non-standard way, and the quotes are appropriate (if not practical). The word is being used to refer to a function Apple has chosen to call "lock." The sound itself is not being locked, nor is the sound the sound of an actual lock in use. It's the sound associated with a function called "lock." The quotation marks tell the user to understand the phrase 'LOCK' SOUND to mean "the sound made by the so-called 'lock' function," which is precisely how it should be interpreted.

From Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Ed. (color added):

7.55“Scare quotes”

Quotation marks are often used to alert readers that a term is used in a nonstandard (or slang), ironic, or other special sense. Nicknamed scare quotes, they imply, “This is not my term” or “This is not how the term is usually applied.”

Well, four years later, I had this question, and eventually found a very clear answer at this link.

http://www.solveyourtech.com/how-to-turn-off-the-iphone-5-lock-and-unlock-sound/

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Lock sound means the sound which get locked