Overview
- Apple announced iOS 27 at its WWDC keynote on Monday, introducing separate volume controls that split ringtone, alarms/timers, and alerts/system sounds into distinct settings.
- Each category gets its own slider so ringtone volume can be lowered without making alarms or timers quieter, addressing a long-standing user complaint about one shared system volume.
- Apple documents that the alerts and system sounds category covers incoming texts, keyboard clicks, the camera shutter, and similar UI sounds, while alarms and timers have their own control grouping.
- A Match Ringtone Volume toggle appears in the beta; when it is turned off Apple says that the alarms/timers volume will not affect Wake-Up alarms and other alarms that have their own volume controls.
- Early hands-on reports show there is not yet a way to set different volumes for individual alarms, and journalists are continuing to explore the developer beta to confirm finer-grained behaviors.