“If someone uses the iPhone’s alarm sound every day as a ringtone, then it’s reasonable for you to kill them.”
This is a rant on a bullshit website (bullshit.ist) . Throughout the whole article, the main point of this nonsense report is only one: the default “radar” ringtone on the iPhone is annoying!
If there’s any consensus among iPhone users, the distaste for “radar” ringtones must be at the top of the list.
“From the iPhone client”丨Weibo “Radar”, as the default alarm ringtone of the iPhone, may be its greatest achievement to make every user have a splitting headache. If you haven’t heard this sound, you can click the audio below (remember to turn down the volume of your phone first). Sudden loud noises, rapid rhythms, high pitches… If everyone in “Inception” used iPhones, they probably wouldn’t have to worry about not being able to wake up their dreams. iPhone users are telling the world how scary the default alarm ringtone really is. 
(⚠The screen flickering in the animation may cause discomfort, please swipe left as appropriate⬅️) Android alarm clock wakes you up (left) and iPhone alarm clock wakes you up (right)丨dubcp4/Tiktok
Even if you never use an alarm yourself, you may suddenly hear it in your daily life. The “radar” of a colleague in the office suddenly sounded, which really made people become irritable for three seconds. The Cut magazine even proposed a phone alarm stress disorder called PASD (Phone Alarm Stress Disorder), which is used to express the fear of hearing a loud ringtone during non-wake time.
“Radar” is so annoying, it may be set as the default alarm ringtone. But in Apple’s system, there are louder sounds than it.
Radar, not the loudest ringtone yet
Good music styles vary, but bad sounds are always the same. Andrew Stafford, head of a music agency, identified three areas of annoying sound:
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Annoying tones, inherent properties of sound, like the sound of a fingernail across a blackboard.
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unnecessary repetition.
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A “Pavlovian” response, which counts as a non-acoustic factor, like you’d hate any music that’s set as a wake-up ringtone.
“Radar” complies with all of the above. However, this cannot be completely blamed on “Radar”, after all, it was also ordered halfway and was added to the list of ringtones after Apple’s system was updated to iOS 7. Before this, the iPhone only had 25 ringtones, you can see these old-level ancient ringtones in the “Classic” option of the sound settings.
Among these ancient ringtones, some are louder than “radar”. There was once a thread on the Apple forums “The Loudest Ringtone”, and the ringtone with the highest vote was “Old Phone”. One after another, it is the retro “ding bell bell bell”.
But something unexpected is that under this 2007 post, everyone is expressing their love for this noisy ringtone. 
Who doesn’t love the Old Phone ringtone (“old phone” is automatically translated)丨Apple.com can see from the reply that people were dissatisfied with the iPhone at that time that the ringtone was too low . There are even ringtone modifiers that allow people to turn up the volume of their ringtones. 
The sound is so small, how can it be used as a mobile phone!丨bigasoft.com But as speaker technology gets better and better, Apple’s classic ringtones are getting louder on new iPhone devices, which also makes the earliest batch of “quasi-physical” ringtones more and more harsh . The earliest ringtones were filled with a large number of realistic sounds: alarms, animal calls, vehicle sounds… These too realistic and annoying sounds were gradually included in the list of “most annoying sounds”.
A musician from Ukraine, Slavio Pole (Slavio Pole), thinks that all the ringtones built into the iPhone are incomprehensible. He had made some new ringtones and sent a USB stick with them to Apple headquarters. His effort is more like a performance art, but also represents the views of many people: the default ringtone is too ugly ! 
U disk sent to you, please bring your own expansion dock丨Salat Production/Youtube
sound becomes trademark
Obviously, Apple will not just replace its default ringtones, because the sound has long been part of the brand image.
Just like playing “radar” in a crowd can make Apple users feel irritable, “marimba” has long become one of the symbols of Apple users.
With the update of the system, Apple’s default ringtone has been changed several times, but the early “marimba” still monopolized people’s perception of the iPhone . Ancient TV dramas or movies are also full of this crisp ringtone, as if shouting “I’m using an iPhone” to the audience in front of the TV. In fact, these ringtones may have been carefully designed by Apple.
A 2013 article on the Forbes website pointed out that the marimba digital instrument in Apple’s digital audio software GarageBand is very similar to the iPhone ringtone, leading to the inference of the composer of “marimba” and other original ringtones Probably the “Father of GarageBand” Gerhard Lengeling, and the ringtones he created using the GarageBand program. However, the design of iPhone ringtones has always been a mystery. Perhaps we will never know who is behind these melodious or annoying ringtones.
It is not unusual to have a well-designed brand tone. Before the “marimba”, other mobile phone manufacturers have long been eyeing ringtones. Whether it is Motorola’s “Hello, moto”, or Nokia’s classic “NOKIA TUNE”, they have become one of the synonyms of the brand.
Different from Apple’s “new machine to change the ringtone”, Nokia has always been in love with its own brand tone, and has launched a lot of improved versions. Nokia also launched a ringtone contest in 2011, inviting everyone to use Nokia Tune for adaptation. Winning entries can not only win prize money, but can also be added to the 2012 product.
Interestingly, the most liked work at the time was a user who casually recorded the sound of humming the Nokia theme song. But this work labeled 206 was not selected as the champion song in the end (fortunately).
Customization, why is it so difficult?
With the introduction of Android, ringtones have become more personalized. Although various manufacturers will also have their own unique ringtones built in, the high openness of the Android system allows users to easily change the ringtones for incoming calls and alarms. Ringtones as a brand are also gradually weakening.
So Android users may never understand the horror of being dominated by a certain scary ringtone (which is a good thing).
It’s not that the iPhone can’t change the ringtone, it’s just a bit of a hassle, and all of this is because of copyright and financial interests .
Apple actually has its own ringtone store, the kind that asks for money. The alarm ringtone can also be replaced with music in Apple Music, yes, it also costs money to subscribe. 
Apple’s ringtone store丨Apple.com ringtones themselves are a huge market. Back in 2004, market research firm Consect pointed out that global ringtone sales exceeded $4 billion that year. Record companies also took advantage of the revenue and began selling clips of popular music as ringtones. US music billboard Billboard even launched a ringtone chart section.
With its own powerful music store, the iPhone has also launched a genuine ringtone service: you can buy a song for $0.99 and a custom 30-second genuine ringtone for $0.99. Later, Apple integrated the ringtone purchase service into the iTunes Store, but due to copyright and other issues, it is currently unavailable in some areas. 
One song, two money丨macworld.com Apple has always allowed users to design their own ringtones in GarageBand and export them for use. For non-music professional users, designing a suitable ringtone is still a bit of a threshold.
Fortunately, Apple allows you to import music clips to edit and set as ringtones. For example, QQ Music members can export music clips to GarageBand, and then transcode and share them to the ringtone library of the mobile phone.
If you just hate scary alarm bells, try the Sleep feature too. Maybe Apple also knows how loud its own ringtones are, so they added a few soothing and crescendo sweet alarm tones to bedtime… I suggest that Apple can add these ringtones to the regular sounds. 
In the sleep above the alarm clock, you can set different ringtones. Apple respects copyright, and it is also good to make a loud sound so that everyone will not miss the call. But can you put a sweet ringtone on the whole time and replace this harmful default “radar”!
references
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