iPhone 14 will get startup sound to assist blind customers
An eagle-eyed iOS developer has noticed an unheralded new function within the iPhone 14: the optionally available skill to play a sound when it begins up and shuts down. This is known to be a chime much like these performed by generations of Macs.
Steve Moser seen the function within the GM code for iOS 16.0, amongst plenty of different last-minute modifications that will have given away particulars of the brand new merchandise if applied earlier (equivalent to Action Mode, Dynamic Island notification settings, and AirPods Pro quantity swipes). A bit of code reads, merely: “Play sound when iPhone is powered on and off.”
The accessibility knowledgeable Steve Aquino individually tweeted that the function had been added as a result of “plenty of Blind and low imaginative and prescient folks, even inside the corporate, wished for a concrete solution to inform whether or not their cellphone restarted.”
And a 3rd supply has tweeted what seems to be the sound that can play:
Given how helpful this may be as an accessibility function, and that it is a change noticed within the working system code, some iPhone house owners have expressed hope that it is likely to be provided to all handsets able to working iOS 16. But it seems not. Aquino says he was informed it’s for iPhone 14 solely, and a few commenters have even predicted that it is likely to be restricted to this yr’s Pro fashions.
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