Every software update Apple issues comes packed with new-and-improved features designed to help users get more out of their iPhones, and iOS 15 is no exception. But perhaps the most useful among the hotly anticipated features that iOS 15 offers is a new suite of accessibility options for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities
One new feature that has users excited is a set of background sounds tailored for people who find them beneficial in helping to retain focus, maintain a self of calm and minimize distractions. Apple has given users six different types of sounds they can pop on in the background: balanced noise, rain, bright noise, dark noise, ocean and stream.
How to enable the new background noise feature in iOS 15:
Select Settings, then Accessibility. Find Hearing, then select Audio/Visual.
Select Background Sounds. Under the Sound tab, select the ambient noise you want to listen to.
According to Apple, the new sounds “continuously play in the background to mask unwanted environmental or external noise, and the sounds mix into or duck under other audio and system sounds.”
