Turning off the outgoing message sound on your iPhone can be a simple yet effective way to reduce unnecessary noise, especially if you find the default "woosh" sound annoying. Here’s a step-by ...

Assigning different text tones to each contact lets you know who sent you a text without looking at your phone. If the text sounds don't work on your iPhone, you may have turned them off.

Normally when you send a text message on an iPhone, a progress bar at the top of the screen shows that the message is sending, and this is followed by the "message sent" sound. When a text message ...

The Tri-Tone alert that ships as the default text message sound on every iPhone wasn’t originally written for Apple at all.

Your iPhone's Messages app includes a feature called ... triggered by normal phone handling near your ear. You can still send intentional audio messages by tapping the sound wave icon that appears in ...

And yet, it's a feature that Apple has somehow managed to avoid bringing to the iPhone for four years. With iOS 5, it's coming. Finally.

Yep, we're talking about the iPhone's famous "tri-tone" message alert, which comes as the factory default for every little Apple machine. And now, thanks to producer Kelly Jacklin, we know where ...