An eagle-eyed iOS developer has noticed an unheralded new function within the iPhone 14: the optionally available potential to play a sound when it begins up and shuts down. This is known to be a chime just like these performed by generations of Macs.
Steve Moser seen the function within the GM code for iOS 16.0, amongst a variety of different last-minute adjustments that may have given away particulars of the brand new merchandise if carried out earlier (equivalent to Action Mode, Dynamic Island notification settings, and AirPods Pro quantity swipes). A chunk of code reads, merely: “Play sound when iPhone is powered on and off.”
The accessibility expert Steve Aquino separately tweeted that the feature had been added because “a lot of Blind and low vision people, even inside the company, wished for a concrete way to tell whether their phone restarted.”
And a 3rd supply has tweeted what seems to be the sound that may play:
Given how helpful this could be as an accessibility function, and that this can be 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 12 months’s Pro fashions.
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