Stop the daily annoyances and make your iPhone faster, quieter, and easier to use with a few quick settings tweaks.

If the notifications from a particularly active group chat or an over-eager friend are getting on your nerves, it's very easy on an iPhone to mute them and give yourself a break. Of course, you can ...

These days, you will find almost all the apps that are installed on your iPhone sending notifications about different services, deals, and features they offer. Then there's stuff you actually want to ...

The default notification noise in iOS 17 was too quiet, and couldn't be changed — but that's been fixed in iOS 17.2. Here's how to select a better default alert noise. Apple's release of iOS 17 ...

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-step ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Let's start here: I don't hate the Apple ...