iOS 27 lastly will get a fundamental quantity function that Android has had for years

Sure, you learn that accurately. All this time, iPhone customers have had a single quantity slider on their smartphones. That slider would management the ringer quantity, media quantity, and alert quantity.

In distinction, Android customers have had individually adjustable quantity controls for therefore lengthy that it feels virtually hilarious to see it change into a “function” in iOS 27.

And but, a function it’s. iOS 27 lastly lets customers set totally different quantity ranges for incoming telephone calls, alarms and timers, and system sounds. The function might be discovered inside Settings > Sounds and Haptics. Customers can disable the “Match Ringtone Quantity” toggle to get two extra sliders for alarms and alerts.

Throughout the new UI, Apple additionally provides sure clarifications: the alarm quantity slider won’t have an effect on the amount of the “Wake-Up” alarm. That quantity is managed independently from inside “Bedtime” settings.

It additionally explains that notifications for incoming texts and system sounds, just like the digital camera shutter sound and keyboard clicks, are included beneath “Alerts and System Sounds.”

Solely Apple can inform us why it took so lengthy to supply a function that’s this handy, and one which’s existed on Android for years and years. It clearly prioritized AI in earlier years. However not less than this time, it appears to be providing among the AI options it has talked about.

I nonetheless keep in mind WWDC 2024, with the promise of Apple Intelligence — one which was by no means fairly fulfilled. So forgive me if I take Apple’s guarantees with a pinch of salt this time round. However I’m glad I lastly have unbiased quantity controls on my iPhone.