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How do I change the sound on the apple watch. HATE the ding!
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Just take it off completely. The little taps should be enough.
That's what I did. I also turned of sound notifications on my phone too now. Except for phone calls.
Go to the app on your phone and change from "Mirror to iPhone" to "Custom" from there you can change the settings .
I just found this out , it was driving me crazy . Though I did leave the sound for important notifications for the moment . I have to get used to the haptics which are not very strong .
To answer the OP , I don't think you can change the sound , just make it higher or lower .
I just found this out , it was driving me crazy . Though I did leave the sound for important notifications for the moment . I have to get used to the haptics which are not very strong .
To answer the OP , I don't think you can change the sound , just make it higher or lower .
You can leave those on. The phone won't make notification sounds unless your actively using it while your wearing the watch.
I believe Apple's reasoning for this is that they want different notifications to have a distinct sound and "feel" to them. The taps are subtly different, and the sounds were designed to correspond to the taps so that the wearer could, over time, pick up on these cues to know what type of notification they were receiving before they even looked at the display.
My watch lives in silent mode. The taps are definitely enough to get attention.
Going to third this here. Can only think of a small handful of times I haven't felt a notification and those were activity related where you wouldn't notice a quick vibrate.
Like others, I use taps only on my watch. It’s great for my alarm clock, which doesn’t wake up my wife.
Yep, same here. I prefer not to disturb others and myself with any unnecessary sounds
Yep that’s great and all, I’m sure you kept your phone on silent too before having a watch.
Some of us have different opinions and different needs. Just because you don’t care doesn’t mean others have to agree.
I have used my watch in silent mode, and if I’m at work I can’t feel it at all.
Same....I've had every Apple Watch since the S0 and I don't even know what kinds of sounds they can make. Mine have always been on silent - haptic notifications are perfect for me.
See, that’s the fun thing with opinions, everybody has one and in discussion boards, people tend to voice them ;-)
And yeah, I also kept my phone silent as there‘s nothing more annoying than my own or other people‘s damn phones beeping, ringing or making other sounds.
Have you tried setting the haptic feedback strength to „prominent“ in settings?
It is already set to prominent, yes.
I work in a generally busy and loud environment. Also, nobody cares about the sound my phone makes, especially since it’s a small Star Trek TNG era communicator sound (and tbh if they did care, I wouldn’t). I have it off at appropriate times such as movie theaters or meetings.
Anyways this is pointless. And all the people commenting “I don’t care because I have it on silent” are pointless comments that do not add anything of substance.
Regardless of your use of the sound feature; it is nonetheless a basic feature that Apple should have included with the first watch.
Well, the title of this thread is about „HATING the ding“. So I dared to suggest turning it off. Pointless to you maybe, but maybe a valid solution to others
There's ONE thing more annoying...people walking around a store or other public place having a conversation on their phone on speakerphone.
Speakerphone at a restaurant is the worst. Talking about their medical problems for 20 minutes. And this is at a real restaurant, not a fast food joint. Wow, just wow.There's ONE thing more annoying...people walking around a store or other public place having a conversation on their phone on speakerphone.
Yup… you’re right, I‘ll never understand what‘s going on with people who do that🤮There's ONE thing more annoying...people walking around a store or other public place having a conversation on their phone on speakerphone.
Apparently starring in their own reality show, broadcasting for the benefit of the Whole World.🎬 Ugh.There's ONE thing more annoying...people walking around a store or other public place having a conversation on their phone on speakerphone.
And I totally agree with you.
Basically, shallow people have seen actors or reality "stars" doing this (because the audience also needs to be able to hear the other side of the conversation) and are copying it because they think it makes them look cool.There's ONE thing more annoying...people walking around a store or other public place having a conversation on their phone on speakerphone.