When you turn off, boot or restart your iPhone, it doesn’t make any sound. Many computers and Android devices can do this, so why can’t your iPhone? Well, some of you may never have to ask that question again.
iOS 16 has a hidden setting that beeps every time you turn your iPhone off or on again. You will hear it every time at the same volume level, regardless of your device’s volume level. Your iPhone may even be in silent mode and you will still hear a beep when you turn it off and on.
The only problem is that this is only for iPhone 14 series models. So if you have an iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, or iPhone 14 Pro Max, you can turn on the shutdown and boot sounds.
This is very useful for blind and visually impaired users, because without it it is impossible to determine when the iPhone is turned off or on. And it’s just as valuable to everyone else, so you no longer have to look at your iPhone waiting for the Apple logo to appear. Besides, it just sounds cool.
This setting is hidden in accessibility settings, but it’s easy to activate. Just go to “Settings”-> “Accessibility”-> “Audio/Video”, then turn on the switch “Sounds when turning on and off”.
Then, whether you turn your iPhone off and on manually or restart it, you’ll hear the device’s shutdown sound and boot up sound. If you ever need to force restart your iPhone, you won’t hear the shutdown sound, but you will hear the boot beep.
The power off sound file, DeviceShutdown.caf, is hidden in the “UISounds”folder hidden in the iOS software. The startup sound file, d27-boot-chime.im4p, d28-boot-chime.im4p, d73-boot-chime.im4p or d74-boot-chime.im4p, depending on your iPhone 14 model, is hidden in the “embeddedaudioresources”firmware folder “.
Unlock your iPhone 14’s shutdown and boot sounds to hear these sounds every time you turn your iPhone off and on. https://t.co/UxahZE7rb0 pic.twitter.com/NlkOGgxSRm
Fun fact: The device shutdown sound was leaked on the day of the iPhone 14 announcement and was found in the same folder mentioned above in the iOS 16 release candidate for a non-14 model device. Given that this is an accessibility feature for blind and visually impaired users, we may We will get sounds on other iPhone models in a future software update, especially since one of the sounds was discovered even before the release of the iPhone 14 series models.