Despite a lengthy WWDC keynote, Apple didn’t have life to market it each and every new feature shipping with iOS 26. As such, we proceed to be told about unutilized options and smaller adjustments as beta testers discover the unutilized OS. Those testers have sniffed out one unutilized addition this is petite, however a laugh: Your iPhone is getting a new ringtone.
Technically, it’s getting a special model of an present ringtone. No less than, that’s how Apple it appears sees issues: Following the reduce of iOS 26 beta 2, Apple has, for the primary life, added another model of one in every of its signature ringtones—particularly, “Reflection,” the default iOS ringtone that Apple originally introduced with the iPhone X. Equipped Apple doesn’t exchange issues between now and the reduce of the overall model of iOS 26, whenever you’ve upgraded you’ll discover a shed ill arrow upcoming to “Reflection” on your telephone’s ringtones settings. Faucet that, and also you’ll see two choices: “Default,” which is the common sound, and “Alt 1.” That’s your unutilized ringtone.
What’s possibly extra attention-grabbing than the sound itself is the truth that prepared beta witnesses in reality discovered it buried within the first beta for iOS 26: Date Alt 1 wasn’t an choice within the Ringtones settings, the pitch record itself used to be provide within the IPSW record for the running gadget, as this X user came upon on June 18. You’ll be able to listen the ringtone itself within the embedded put up:
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I do listen similarities between the Alt 1 and Default variations of Mirrored image, however, to be fair, Alt 1 sounds distinctive plethora to my ear to deserve its personal access. Apple can have known as this “Rumination” or “Refraction” or the rest truly, and I don’t suppose many would have complained that it sounded too alike to the prevailing default ringtone.
What do you suppose up to now?
To be truthful, despite the fact that, Alt 1 is a lovely cool title for a ringtone. And who is aware of—Apple may exchange the title or put together it a distant access earlier than the OS is formally immune. It would additionally upload extra trade tones, or delete Alt 1 totally. We gained’t know till the overall model of iOS 26 rolls out q4.