Our iPhone can notify us when the washing machine or the microwave rings. So we can configure it

That Apple spends a tremendous amount of time and money making our devices as accessible as possible to everyone we know. Let these innovations on more than one occasion benefit us all in the form of capabilities that we also wouldn’t expect from a phone. What our iPhone can notify us when the washing machine or the microwave rings…it can’t.

But if. Just as our iPhone can alert us by detecting certain sounds such as running taps or a crying baby, we can train sound recognition so that let us know about almost everything. A most useful resource in many circumstances and which we can take advantage of quite easily.

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The ability to recognize sounds with iPhone is for those who have hearing difficulties and need to be aware of specific sounds. A crying baby, a bell, a siren or a horn are just a few examples. If we add the Apple Watch to the notification presented by the iPhone when it detects one of these sounds, as the recipient of said notification, we are faced with a system for detecting certain sounds from a distance.

And here we start to see some pretty interesting probabilities for this sound recognition. One option is for when we are concentrated listening to music with noise cancellation, but we should be aware of some alerts. The other is when, due to our location relative to the source of the sound, we cannot hear it, such as hearing the doorbell when we are at the bottom of our garden.

In all these cases, sound recognition can be really useful. How do we activate it? Very simple, just follow these steps:

1. We open the application Settings on our iPhone.
2. We entered Accessibility.
3. We entered sound recognition.
4. we activate sound recognition.
5. we play in sounds.
6. We tap on the sounds we want to recognize.
7. We activate your recognition.

But the interesting thing comes now. can add custom ringtones to train the system to recognize exactly the sound that suits us. The process, although a bit long, is very simple. be inside Settings > Accessibility > sound recognitionhere are the steps to follow:

1. we play in Appliance or custom letterhead.
2. we play Continue.
3. We give the sound a name, for example “Microwave”.
4. A few seconds before the sound is heard, we play on start listening.
5. When the iPhone detects the sound itself, it will detect it, if it has detected another sound that is not the one we are interested in, just touch Ignore and continue listening. After hearing the correct sound, we play on record sound.
6. Depending on whether or not you can restore the same sound to the device, you can choose start listening repeat the process or finish later to save your progress and repeat listening later.

To have to finish listening to the sound a total of five times. Immediately afterwards, the system will inform us that the process may take a few more minutes and that it will send us a notification when it is ready to recognize the sound for which we have just trained it.

And that’s all. Now when our iPhone hears the sound we trained it to, we will receive a notification on our iPhone and also on the Apple Watch. As Apple reminds us, however, we shouldn’t rely on it for situations where damage may occur. That being said, being able to hear certain sounds even without hearing them has several really useful applications.

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