Can You Change Apple Watch Ping Sound? (iOS 17)

None of us love change, unless of course it's a relaxing vacation somewhere peaceful. For a lot of Apple Watch lovers, the changes made to the iPhone pinging sound you use to locate your iPhone via your Apple Watch have been very unwelcome. Lots of people are asking, "Can you change the Apple Watch ping sound?" We've got the answers, but you're not going to like them.

How to Change Apple Watch Ping

Let's cut to the chase: unfortunately, you cannot change the ping noise back to the way it sounded before the iOS 16 update at this time. However, there are a few things you can do to mitigate your discomfort with the new ping sound. One solution is to adjust the volume of the iPhone ping sound. Just be careful not to lower it so much that you can't find your iPhone the next time you ping it. If you like iPhone tips like this, be sure to sign up for our free Tip of the Day.

1. On your iPhone, open Settings.
   
   
2. Select Sounds & Haptics. 
   
   
3. Toggle on Change with Buttons. 
   
   
4. Then, adjust the volume.
   
   

Other than this, there's not much else we can do to customize the ping sound on Apple Watch. If you'd like, you can give Apple feedback about this at apple.com/feedback. If you don't like the new ping sound, you're out of luck. iOS 17 introduced the same sound for pinging your Apple Watch from your iPhone. Learn how to ping Apple Watches next.

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If the ping sound changing wasn't annoying enough, the watchOS 10 update changed the location of the Apple Watch Control Center.