{"id":49024,"date":"2026-07-13T18:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=49024"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:26:54","slug":"pixel-phones-are-getting-a-handy-upgrade-for-ringtone-alarm-and-notification-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=49024","title":{"rendered":"Pixel phones are getting a handy upgrade for ringtone, alarm, and notification controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"aa_tldr_text\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; padding: 10px;\"><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google is adding volume sliders to the ringtone, alarm, and notification pickers on Pixel phones.<\/li>\n<li>We found the change in an unreleased build of the Sounds app included with the Pixel 11 firmware.<\/li>\n<li>New strings also suggest Google is still working on a dedicated collection of vibration patterns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>Picking a new ringtone on your Pixel currently means choosing the sound first and worrying about its volume elsewhere. Google looks ready to make that process a little more convenient by putting volume controls right inside its Sounds app.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re reading an <strong>Authority Insights<\/strong> story. Authority Insights brings you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage from the <em>Android Authority<\/em> team that you won\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Google is adding volume sliders to the ringtone, alarm, and notification pickers on Pixel phones. We found the change in an unreleased build of the Sounds app included with the Pixel 11 firmware. New strings also suggest Google is still working on a dedicated collection of vibration patterns. Picking a new ringtone on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,424,92,363,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-authority-insights","category-google","category-google-pixel","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}