You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...

Rita was a Managing Editor at Android Police. Once upon a time, she was a pharmacist as well. Her love story with Android started in 2009 and has been going stronger with every update, device, tip, ...

Every smartphone comes with a slate of built-in ringtones and alert sounds. But after a while, they can get annoying and confusing. Was that your phone ringing or the guy behind you in line at the ...

This guide details some of the best free ringtone apps for Android, and why you might want to use one. And while adding custom ringtones to your phone isn’t as popular as it once was, there are still ...

Your phone's ringtone can say a lot about your personality. The default ringtone that comes with your Android phone isn't always going to feel like it's right for you. You might find it annoying, too ...

Android 12 will bring updated Pixel ringtone, notification, and alarm sounds, as they’re already available in the Beta 3 version. For those of you who are unaware, the Android 12 Beta 3 build launched ...

Ringtones have been around since the first telephones, and for the most part, they all sound rather similar — an electronic emulation of the ringing of bells that were connected to landline telephones ...

This December an Android app called Sounds (by Google) will make the audio cues on your smartphone very, very simple to modify. Not that the process was too complicated to figure out before, but never ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The last time Google made new alarm, notification, and ringtone ...

There are many ways that you can create an Android ringtone. Here are a few of them - some of them will be more suitable than others, depending on your Android version and smartphone model. The Sound ...

For the past few releases, Ringtone and Notification volume has been controlled by one slider, but Google today signaled how that might be changing in Android 13 QPR3 or 14. With Android 13 QPR2 Beta ...