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How to modify the iPhone charging tone in iOS 14? I believe many inexperienced people don't know what to do about it. Therefore, this paper summarizes the causes and solutions of the problem. Through this article, I hope you can solve this problem.

Recently, the topic of changing the iOS charging tone has suddenly gone viral on social networks. With a simple setting, you can say goodbye to iOS's stereotyped tone and change it to your favorite sound effect.

The following will be from another point of view, in addition to introducing how to achieve this function, but also "teach people to fish" to let you know how to expand its game.

How to modify the cue tone

In fact, the principle of realization is that through the automation function of quick instructions, the device can play a section of audio when connected to the power supply, so as to achieve the effect of "replacement". The practice is also very simple, as long as follow the following steps to operate, it can be called "teaching package meeting".

Step 1: prepare a piece of audio

Since we want to "replace" the audio, we have to prepare an audio first. You can download relevant materials directly from the Internet, or you can record your favorite audio through screenshots and other methods. If it is a screenshot, you also have to prepare an app that can convert video into audio.

After using the software to convert your favorite video into audio, you need to save the audio to the "file" app. I suggest saving it directly to the "Shortcuts" folder in iCloud Drive (that is, the folder corresponding to the shortcut instruction app). The reasons will be mentioned later.

At this point, you need to remember how the audio is exported by app. Generally speaking, the exported format will be M4a or mp3. If you are not sure, you can also press long in the "document" and select "introduction", and then you can see the full name of the file, including the suffix.

Step 2: set automation in the shortcut instruction app

After saving the audio, you only need to open the shortcut command app and make a simple setting. First of all, click the plus sign in the upper right corner of the "Automation" interface and select "create personal Automation" to enter the "Charger" menu and check "connected". Then, you only need to add two actions to achieve audio "replacement".

The first action is "get file". This action will check "Show document Selector" by default, we need to close it manually, and then the input box of "File path" will appear. Due to system limitations, shortcut instructions can only automatically get files under the iCloud Drive/Shortcuts/ path, and you need to add a suffix when entering a file name. That's why I suggested earlier to save the audio here and remember the audio format.

The second action is "play sound", which can be added directly after "get file".

In the last step before saving, you need to manually turn off "ask before running" so that the device can automatically play the sound when it is plugged in.

When these settings are completed and then connected to the power supply, the charging tone of the device will be "replaced".

Action principle and common problems

As mentioned earlier, this action automatically plays audio when the power is plugged in. Therefore, it is inevitable that some undesirable situations will occur: the audio is mixed with the original prompt tone, and the audio is delayed.

Because the nature of this action is "play audio" and the nature of the system prompt tone is "play notification", the system prompt tone will always play first, which is why the audio will be mixed with the original prompt tone. At this point, you only need to turn on mute to eliminate the original tone.

Audio delay is normal, after all, the device needs to detect that you are connected to the power supply, and then run automation, during which there is usually a delay of less than 1 second. However, if the delay time exceeds 1 second, it may be caused by other problems.

First of all, it is possible that there is a gap in front of the audio. In this way, even if the audio is played accurately, the white space in front of it will cause the illusion of "audio delay". In this case, you just need to cut out the blank space.

The second situation is more common, especially when the device space is insufficient, the system will automatically delete some local files that have been saved to iCloud Drive. The Shortcuts folder happens to be on the iCloud Drive, so it is possible for the system to delete the original audio when the device space is tight.

In this way, when you need to play audio, the system will download the audio again, which naturally leads to audio delay. There is also a solution to this problem, which is to embed audio into shortcut instructions.

The principle of embedding is to use Base64 coding to convert audio into text and store it in automation. During each playback, the system only needs to decode locally, does not need to re-download because the file is deleted, and does not need to rely on the network.

Later, you need to modify the automation that has just been completed. Delete "get File" and add "text" and then "Base64 Encoding". At the same time, you also need to click "encode" in "Base64 Encoding" and change it to "decode".

In this way, you don't have to worry about audio being cleaned up by the system and delay problems occur from time to time.

Extended play

Now that we know how to modify the tone, we can also achieve more interesting ways to play. We just need to find automation that supports turning off "ask before running", such as automation at a specific time and flight mode, which can be used to explore more games.

With quick instructions and rich third-party app actions, you can change the low power warning tone, automatically turn on the dark mode when you turn on the do not disturb mode, and automatically play a playlist when you connect to the CarPlay car.

Not only that, if you have a smart bracelet that supports NFC, you can also use it to automatically interact with the NFC of the shortcut command to achieve the function of "scanning the bracelet and recording drinking water".

After reading the above, have you mastered how to change the iPhone charging tone in iOS 14? If you want to learn more skills or want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel, thank you for reading!

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