Try this iPhone feature to help calm your child to sleep

It may be difficult for a child to be difficult, especially if you don’t get enough sleep. According to American Academy of PediatricsRunning the calm sounds of the white noise machine can help calm your child and get them stable – and gives you a moment of comfort. But you don’t have to buy a white noise machine if you have the iPhone.

When I released Apple iOS 15 in 2021, the operating system brought a hidden feature to your iPhone The background sounds. It allows you to convert your iPhone into a white noise device and you can play these sounds themselves or under any podcast, music or video application.

When Apple presented the feature, there were six surrounding sounds to play on a loop: rain and ocean – which are natural sounds – bright, balanced and dark noise – different stadiums of white noise. When I released Apple iOS 18 in 2024, she added two voices to the feature: Night and Fire. and iOS 26 It brings more background sounds to the devices, such as rain on the surface and gossip – which looks like a crowded cafe.

Here’s how to enable the background sounds on your iPhone.

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How to reach the background sounds from your control center

Instead of searching through settings every time you want to play the background sounds, here is how to set up a switch in the control center to play the feature for use on your iPhone.

1. Open Control center.
2. Press the Plus (+) mark at the top of the screen.
3. handle Add a control element Near the bottom of the screen.
4. handle hearing Control (ear icon) below Hearing access to hearing To add to the control center.

Once the hearing control icon is at the control center, click on it to see three options: amplifier, background sounds and direct listening. Then click on the musical notes next to The background sounds To turn on the feature. You can also click on the words The background sounds To open a menu to choose a different background sound as well as adjusting the sound level.

Use accessibility of rear sounds

You can also set up access shortness to play the background sounds or turn it off from your main screen or inside the app. Here’s how to prepare it.

1. handle Settings.
2. handle accessibility.
3. handle Abbreviation of access.
4. handle The background sounds.

Now when you press the side button on your iPhone three times, the background sounds will run. You can click the button three times again to restart it.

More background sound options

If you want more control of the background sounds, here is where you go.

1. handle Settings.
2. handle accessibility.
3. handle Voice and visual.
4. handle The background sounds.

Near the top of this list, you can play the background sounds by clicking on The background sounds Switch, and you can change the background sound by clicking voice And choose a new voice.

There are two types of switching in this list: Use when you play media and Stop. Click on the switch beside Use when you play media The background sounds are allowed to continue playing while watching a video or listening to music. And the exploitation of the switch next to Stop The background sounds are turned off when your device locks. If you do not have this empowerment, the sounds will continue to run when your device is locked.

There are also new lists in iOS 26: tie and stopping sounds with temporary. Equalizer allows you to adjust the tone and background sounds, as well as a more balance towards the headphone, the headphone or the left. Stop Sounds allows you to turn off the background sounds at a specific time you can choose or after a certain period of time has passed.

To learn more about iOS 26, here My evaluation of the operating systemHow to reduce the effects of liquid glass on update and how to empower Call check -in On your iPhone. You can also see our Cheating paper 26 iOS.