My iPhone is calling to me with a different voice
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#62WB0)
Sing me the new song of your people. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple's upcoming iOS 16 update brings with it a lot of new features - things like the ability to customize your Lock Screen, edit iMessages, or copy written text from a video. But Apple's also made an under-the-radar change to some of the iPhone's sounds, which some of us here at The Verge noticed while using the betas.
When you go to the Find My app and choose the play sound" option for an iOS / iPadOS 16 device, you'll now be greeted with what sounds like an electronic xylophone, instead of the pinging sound that played on iOS 15 and before. The change also applies to when you ask your Apple Watch to ping your phone for you, except the sound plays once instead of over and over. One of my co-workers described the new sound as higher...