How to change notification sounds on iPhone

There is no way to customise the notification sound for 3rd party applications. However, if you wish to change the sound for apps built into the iPhone, you can do this by going to Settings > Sounds & Haptics.

That is not even close to what the person wanted. We don't want to turn the notification sound on and off, we want to make it play a different sound for different apps. There is no way to do that in Settings > Sounds. There used to be a way to set different sounds for different apps.

If the app developer didn't build that functionality into their app, you can't.

You can change the notification sound from the app itself settings. For example whatsup has options for that. Check the app in its settings

This does not give me an option for different sounds. Just that I can turn it on and off. So I guess I have the same notification sound for a lot of my apps or can I customize this?

What kind of dumb answer is that? But no, iOS is so **** locked down you can't even change notification sound for every app, thought something like this would be added in iOS 11 but still the same locked OS. Why is Apple so scared of customization..?

Change alert styles and settings for notifications

Customize your notifications with different alert styles so you can act quickly on emails, calendar invites, messages, and more. To add or change an alert style for a notification, go to Settings > Notifications and select an app.

Notifications from apps can have these alerts styles:

• Banners: Banner alerts appear at the top of the screen and go away automatically. To reply, swipe down on the banner or swipe up to dismiss it. If you have an iPhone 6s or later, you can respond to a banner alert with 3D Touch. Just press deeply on a banner alert to respond.
• Alerts: With Alerts, you need to act before you can move on. Depending on the app, you can dismiss the alert or reply to it.
• Badges: A Badge is the red number that appears on an app icon and shows you how many notifications you have for that app.
• Sounds: Have an app play a sound to alert you when you receive a notification.

Use Notifications on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
Take care!

Yeah, this is nuts. I have the same notification sound for LinkedIn, Twitter, (and many others) as I do when my gate opens. My dogs lose it when they hear it so it's become entirely inconvenient. Apple should easily listen to its' customers and allow for custom notification sounds the same way phone numbers can have custom ringtones. What's the problem, Apple?

Currently my Arlo home security cameras and credit/banking apps, aka items requiring urgent response, have the same alert notification as twitter and a host of other less important apps. Some ability to differentiate would be ideal....correction....should be THE STANDARD. Apple, please fix this.

Pathetic. Samsung Galaxy here I come asap. Apple have lost the plot.

Please answer this question correctly or escalate it.

The question is how to change the notification sounds for the third party apps, it’s not ato turn them off or on.

There is an easy way. Get an android phone, life is so simple after that (out of personal experience) 😝

Exactly my thoughts.

“I see you’re looking to...”

“I can see why you’d want to..., as this sounds very convenient”

Ahahaha this is ridiculous.

Apple,

This is the most robotic auto canned response I think I’ve seen. With the amount of money your company currently has, you can’t hire a decent human like response, instead of giving the user an exact answer to their question?

That laughable robotic like response didn’t even answer their question, and completely bypassed it.

I can’t believe I am even writing a response to this, but I have to call it out as I work in Customer Experience, and we would NEVER let this type of response slide.

Embarrassing, Apple. Spend a couple extra bucks (you clearly can afford it), to have your employees respond with direct answers. Not just a copy and paste outline. It’s called “logic”.

I am also looking for this option to customize sounds for third party apps.

Please escalate!