How Do I Change My Notification Sound

How to change notification sounds on Mac and PC

It might seem confusing to do this on Windows, but information technology's not as well hard

Our computers and phones are pretty much constantly beeping at the states, but did you know that you lot can change these sounds to make them a lot less grating?

On Mac, this process is super piece of cake, and Windows 10 isn't that much harder, so anyone can do it if they feel like making all those beeps into something a niggling more soothing.

macOS

To alter the default warning sound, you demand to enter into the 'System preferences' app and select 'Sounds.' Then, at the top of that window, select the option 'Sound effects.'

From there, you lot can choose a sound you similar and it will become your default notification tone.

The second step is figuring out what apps and services that audio applies too. For instance, the email app Spark has its own notification sound, only yous tin disable it if you lot'd rather the default. Slack, on the other hand, has a few custom sounds of its ain.

Sadly that's the state of notification sounds on Mac, just generally, if y'all go into an app's settings, it volition take some sort of notifications department to give yous some options. Everything else that doesn't will use the base tone you fix earlier.

Windows 10

As I stated above, things are a tiny bit trickier with Windows, but you do get some more customization options, so that'southward a plus.

The first thing you need to practise is open the sound preferences. The quickest style to do this is to click on the search push on the Taskbar and looks for 'change system sounds.' One time it appears, click on the pick and a trivial window will appear that looks like the picture show above.

This is where things go a little confusing. When you want to change a audio, yous need to find that 'Issue' in the listing then select a new audio for it from the drop-downward menu beneath.

The main sounds I change on my estimator are every bit follows:

Asterisk
Calendar reminder
Critical battery alert (laptop users only)
default beep
desktop mail notification
device connect/disconnect
Exclamation
New mail
New text
Notification
Organisation notification

You can change more, but I find these to be the ones that pop up oftentimes for me. The start few times I did this, I was worried applying the default windows sounds options to these events would misfile me, but I detect that I get back into the new sounds later on about a twenty-four hours of work, so that shouldn't be a huge business concern.

Alternatively, you can upload your own sounds to the service or some that you've downloaded from online by clicking 'Browse' and choosing your custom sounds.

Once you lot're done, I recommend saving your audio setup so you can easily switch back to this pre-fix in the hereafter and and so hitting 'Utilise' and 'Ok.'

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Just like on macOS, many apps take notification sounds into their ain hands, often you'll need to go into the individual preferences or settings of the apps you apply often and change what yous can in that location.