With iOS 27, users will no longer have to rely on a single volume setting for ringtones, alerts, alarms, and system sounds.

Currently, iOS has one volume slider under Ringtone and Alerts. With iOS 27, there are three.

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For years, Apple forced notifications and alarms to share the same volumes. That is finally changing in iOS 27. Apple introduced new sound & haptics controls during WWDC26. Under the new settings, ...

Certain tones and frequencies can cause sleep inertia, or the groggy feeling that can follow you all morning. Turns out your relationship to your morning alarm doesn’t have to be so fraught — certain ...