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There are plenty of apps available to iPhone users that tin play achromatic sound specified arsenic crashing waves oregon a gentle rain, but did you cognize there's a achromatic sound instrumentality built straight into your iPhone? The lesser known inheritance sounds diagnostic is buried successful the Accessibility conception of your iPhone, and offers up respective antithetic sounds. 

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How to crook connected your iPhone's hidden Background Noise diagnostic

Turning connected your iPhone's inheritance sound diagnostic takes conscionable a fewer taps connected your phone's screen. You'll request to person an iPhone moving iOS 15 oregon newer -- nary different peculiar instrumentality is required. 

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FAQ

Is determination immoderate mode to enactment the iPhone's inheritance sounds connected a timer? 

You astir apt noticed successful the Settings app determination isn't an enactment to play the dependable for a acceptable magnitude of time. Instead, your chosen dependable volition proceed to play until you you manually halt it. That is, unless, you crook connected the enactment to halt playing the dependable erstwhile your telephone locks. 

So, if you privation to perceive to inheritance sounds for a acceptable magnitude of time, what bash you do? Well, 1 workaround is to usage your iPhone's auto-lock diagnostic arsenic a makeshift timer. 

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Go backmost to the Settings app and past select Display & Brightness then select Auto-Lock. You'll person options ranging from 30 seconds up to 5 minutes. 

The options don't connection the longest magnitude of time, and it whitethorn not beryllium capable to assistance you autumn dormant -- but it's amended than having the inheritance sound play each night; unless, of course, that's what you prefer.   

Is determination an easier mode to entree and negociate inheritance sounds? 

You don't person to dive heavy into the Settings app each clip you privation to power your inheritance sounds. Instead, usage Control Center by swiping down from the top-right country of your surface and past pat connected the proceeding icon (it's the 1 with the receptor connected it). 

You tin past play oregon pause, power betwixt the assorted sounds and power the measurement of your inheritance sounds via the tiny popup. Much easier. 

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If the proceeding icon isn't disposable successful your Control Center, you'll request to manually adhd it by going to Settings > Control Center and pat connected the greenish "+" icon adjacent to the Hearing icon.

What astir inheritance sounds connected astute speakers? 

You don't person to usage your iPhone to play inheritance sounds. You tin usage 1 of the galore sleep/white sound Alexa Skills on immoderate 1 of Amazon's Echo speakers oregon astute displays. Google's Nest and Home astute speakers oregon displays person a achromatic sound diagnostic built close into their halfway functionality, you conscionable request to cognize the voice commands to trigger it.