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iOS Background Sounds Focus, Calm, and Accessibility

From Swarthmore Knowledge Base

Apple’s Background Sounds is a feature available on iPhones, iPads, and Apple desktops running iOS 15 or later. We talk more about how it might be useful in Apple’s “Background Sounds”: Focus, Calm, and Accessibility in One Feature.

Set Up Background Sounds

iOS

iOS Settings menu highlighting Accessibility, then Accessibility menu highlighting Audio & Visual option iOS Accessibility settings showing Audio & Visual options with Background Sounds off, and the Background Sounds menu with the feature toggled on and sound set to Balanced Noise.

  1. Open Settings then Accessibility.
  2. Go to Audio & Visual (under Hearing).
  3. Select Background Sounds.
  4. Turn Background Sounds on.
  5. Choose your preferred sound and decide if it should continue when the screen locks.

macOS

Accessibility settings on macOS showing the Audio section with Background Sounds enabled to mask environmental noise and aid focus, calm, or rest.

  1. Open System Settings, then go to Accessibility.
  2. Go to Audio.
  3. Turn Background Sounds on and choose your preferences.
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