So..."many blind users and people with low-vision" MUST buy the new phone in order to have this dinky feature that every previous phone since maybe iPhone 7 should and can have. I see. The smallest little software update could achieve this. 😒
A warning on this — the startup chime plays even when the phone is undergoing a software update overnight.
I was abruptly woken up at 4AM this morning by the startup chime because my phone was updating to 16.0.2.