Did You Know You Can Change Your iPhone’s Charging Sound? Here’s How
There are many fun ways to personalize your iPhone so it fits your personality. Some of the more obvious methods include making visual changes, such as using a photo you took as your lock screen or home screen wallpaper, or using custom app icons to replace default ones that you may find a bit drab. iPhone users who’ve recently upgraded to iOS 17 have also been able to spice up their call screen identification by customizing what the display screen shows when they call someone who owns an iPhone.
Apart from changing what you can see on your iPhone screen, you can also tweak what you can hear from your mobile device to something more exciting. You cancustomize ringtones for your favorite iPhone contactsso an actual song plays instead of the default “Reflection” when you receive an incoming call. You can alsomodify the voice of Siriand select from a variety of American, Australian, British, Indian, Irish, and South African accents spoken by either a man or a woman. In general, most notification sounds can be changed on an iPhone. What most users may not know is that you can even customize what sound your iPhone emits when you plug your device to charge it.
How to create a charging sound automation using the iPhone’s Shortcuts app
An iPhone, with its ringer enabled, makes a discreet noise when you hook it up to its charging cord plugged to a power source. Though it may seem like an inconsequential noise designed to notify you that your device is, indeed, charging, you can rig it so the basic task of gaining back battery becomes more of an event, thanks to the Shortcuts app.
If you haven’t used it before, the built-in Apple app is a handy tool for automating a variety of tasks on your iPhone.Here’s howyou can use it to rig your iPhone so it plays a different sound when you plug your phone in to charge, assuming you’ve already updated to the latest version of iOS:
A new page entitled, “When [your name]’s iPhone is connected to power” should show up onscreen. On this page, you’ll be able to pick a couple of actions that’ll turn the chime sound you usually hear when charging your iPhone into something more amusing. Continue reading below to consider your options.
How to program a Shortcuts automation to change your iPhone’s charging alert
While you’re on the “When [your name]’s iPhone is connected to power” page, you may choose from a variety of actions that you want to happen when you connect your iPhone to a charger. Below are a couple of suggestions:
Important notes on changing your iPhone’s charging sound
In reality, there is currently no straightforward way to modify the chime notification that plays when you connect your iPhone to a charger in the same way you’re able to change your device ringtone. The Shortcuts app merely provides a way for you to play something more interesting after it. If you have your iPhone’s ringer enabled, you’ll still hear the chime, but it will be followed by whatever automation option you picked above. If you want to mute the chime sound entirely, the only way to do it is to switch your iPhone to silent mode by flicking the left-side switch on your iPhone to orange. Your chosen automation should now play without hearing the chime first.
Any charger-related automation you’ve got enabled in the Shortcuts app will get triggered whether your iPhone is on silent mode or not. If you want to remove your custom charging sound — and stop it from triggering when you charge your device in public, for instance — you’d have to launch the Shortcuts app, select Automation from the bottom menu, and swipe left on your automation to delete it.
