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iPhone 14: How to Enable the New Power On and Off Sounds

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For the iPhone 14 series, Apple has added an optional new accessibility feature that plays a sound when the iPhone is powered on and off. Here's how to enable them.

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Apple added the startup and shutdown chimes as a new accessibility feature after many Blind users and people with low-vision reportedly asked the company for a clear way to tell whether their iPhone had restarted, and now anyone can enable them.


Here's how to enable the new feature on iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
  1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone 14.
  2. Scroll down and tap through to Accessibility.
  3. Under "Hearing," tap Audio/Visual.
  4. Toggle on the switch next to Turn On & Off Sounds.
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That's all there is to it. You'll now know whenever your iPhone has started up or shut down without even having to look at the screen. To disable the sounds, simply turn off the same toggle in Settings.

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infinitejest said:
The sound is not actually on your phone. It will be streamed from space via satellite connectivity. Hence, only iPhone 14 can do that.
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Woah, awesome! That's some next-level stuff!!!! But that means I always have to point my iPhone directly at a satellite above me, right?! How do I use the directional-connectivity feature of the satellite feature when my iPhone is turned off??? Or can I just never turn my phone off anymore when this feature is enabled???
 
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svrf said:
Woah, awesome! That's some next-level stuff!!!! But that means I always have to point my iPhone directly at a satellite above me, right?! How do I use the directional-connectivity feature of the satellite feature when my iPhone is turned off??? Or can I just never turn my phone off anymore when this feature is enabled???
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It's actually recommended that from now on you only turn your iPhone on if you're on top of a mountain with a clear sky. I don't know about you, but I'm certainly not risking turning it on when it's cloudy out there!
 
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It's a pretty horrible sound, and pretty loud. This is clearly only meant as an accessibility thing - not something meant to be cosy or nostalgic or that anyone would actually want to have on if they didn't need it.
 
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Yeah, would also like to know why this is only available on the 14. People have been asking for this for a long time. Hopefully they can bring it to at least recent iPhones, like they're doing with the battery percent in the status bar.
 
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chrisone said:
And if it doesn’t work, you’re holding it wrong
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It well past time to retire the phrase.

A funny thing about that though. Cell phones I owned below and after the iPhone release had a section in the owner’s manual about how to hold the phone so you don’t interfere with the antennas. Interfering with reception was an issue for many candy bar style cell phones with internal antennas. The manuals all essentially told you to not hold the phone incorrectly.
 
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Appleuser823 said:
Apple is starting to get too stupid now. Only the new models get a startup sound? If I’m disabled and can benefit from a startup sound then I have to buy an iPhone 14? There is now way the older devices can play a sound when turning on? Wow just wow
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The sound is probably stored on the phones boot ROM, in which case it would require a hardware upgrade, yes
 
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Robert.Walter said:
So for older phones store it somewhere else and trigger it once the device has restarted. There’s got to be simple workarounds.
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It may actually require some sort of hardware support for the firmware to be able to play sounds already during boot.
 
Wow, that's so Android of them. I had a Verizon HTC phone that had a start up sound so annoying and loud I would have to sit on it when I powered it on.
 
jdavid_rp said:
What kind of magic do those iPhone 14 have inside them to perform such a tremendous function that no other iPhone can do?
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The speaker in my iPhone 13 Pro is too feeble to play the amazing magical new startup sound.

Also, if this really is about accessibility, wtf? Apple doesn’t think there are blind people out there with their existing phones that might like this?
 
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Wow, the iPhone 14 is so powerful it can play a startup sound? No freaking way! I never want any older phone ever again!
 
Appleuser823 said:
Apple is starting to get too stupid now. Only the new models get a startup sound? If I’m disabled and can benefit from a startup sound then I have to buy an iPhone 14? There is now way the older devices can play a sound when turning on? Wow just wow
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I think it’s due to how they encrypt the device. If it’s not stored in the bootrom they can’t access it on the regular flash storage until after the phone has started the boot process. The shutdown sound could potentially still work but the boot sound most likely has to live in the bootrom.

Most androids that had the sounds were the carrier ones with like the logos and carrier sounds during the loading phase. Which is a bit different than a startup chin like you see on some pc makers inside the bios or like macbooks with the power on chime. I think apples trying to mimic that more thus the bootrom method. Then putting it in the startup phase.
 
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What kind of magic do those iPhone 14 have inside them to perform such a tremendous function that no other iPhone can do?
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yeah, right? Can't wait to read about how this feature requires 6GB of RAM or the super new digital audio processing chip to work.

You'd think this would be a great feature they could enable on every single phone out in the wild at this very moment but whatever.
 
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