The other day, a reader asked me why, when fast-charging charging their iPhone, did the phone emit one chime (or buzz, if your iPhone is in silent mode) when using a high-speed Apple charger, but when ...

In the world of computing, few things are quite as iconic as the PC boot-up and shut-down chime. To this very day, in fact, a short jingle plays each and every time you turn on a Windows or Mac ...

As a writer at Macworld, I like to think I know everything about the iPhone. But this week I learned something I never knew: The iPhone 14 has a startup chime. The Mac had various startup chimes ...

Shortly after the announcement of the iPhone 14, Apple seeded the iOS 16 Release Candidate. Naturally, folks started digging into the code to see what new tidbits could be gleaned from it. Assistive ...

The start-up chime is still, to this day, an iconic calling card for Apple’s Mac computers. Now the company is giving the iPhone a signature power-on sound. According to snoops digging around in the ...

If you’ve ever plugged in your iPhone and thought, “It would be so much cooler if it played the old Mac startup chime,” you’re absolutely right. And the good news is that you can make that happen.