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You can open the Sound Library from the Sound browser, the Live Loops browser, and from instruments that have additional sounds available for download. To open the Sound Library, your device must be connected to the Internet.
Open the Sound Library
To open the Sound Library from the Sound browser:
- In an existing song, tap to open the Sound browser, swipe until you see Sound Library, then tap Sound Library.
- If you've created a new song, the Sound browser opens automatically. Swipe until you see Sound Library, then tap Sound Library
To open the Sound Library from an instrument like Drummer:
- If necessary, select the Drummer track in Tracks view, then tap in the control bar.
- Tap the drummer name, then tap 'Get more Drummers.' The number indicates how many additional drummers are available.
To open the Sound Library from a Live Loops song:
- In an existing song, tap to open the Template browser, then tap Sound Library.
- If you've created a new Live Loops song, the Template browser opens automatically. Tap Sound Library.
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Navigate the Sound Library
Once you've opened the Sound Library, do any of the following to navigate it:
- Tap a tile to see more sounds.
- Tap Preview to hear samples of the sounds.
- Scroll to view additional information about the sound pack, including file size.
- Tap Get to download the sounds to your device.
- To delete a downloaded sound pack, tap the tile, then tap Delete
The addition of Sound Recognition to iOS 14 now allows iPhone users to be alerted to noises they may not be able to hear. Here's how to get the extra notifications for situations you may otherwise miss.
As part of Apple's push to make the iPhone an extremely useful device in terms of accessibility, it has included a feature to help alert the deaf and hard of hearing to important situations that they may normally miss out on. For example, a door knocking or some form of alarm or siren.
While normally there would be mechanisms in place to provide an alert to a person in a different way, such as with visual indicators like a strobe light, they are not necessarily possible to be used. For example, there isn't any way for a deaf person to know a dog is barking nearby without either social context clues or actually seeing the dog.
With Sound Recognition, Apple attempts to solve the problem by having the iPhone listen out for specific sounds. If it detects a sound that is similar to what it is assigned to listen out for, it will create an alert for the user that it was triggered, and what the sound was.
The implementation in iOS 14 covers many general areas where alerts would be useful, with the most important being fire alarms, smoke alarms, and sirens, which typically indicate nearby emergency situations. It is also capable of detecting the sound of appliances like a microwave finishing its cooking time, a car horn, a doorbell, door knocks, and running water.
The list isn't reserved for mechanical sounds, as it also covers sounds a cat, a dog, or a baby would make.
Though this is meant for use as an accessibility feature, it still has its uses for normal hearing users as well, specifically in situations where they are not able to hear, such as listening to music while wearing headphones.
Sound Recognition is also available on iPadOS 14.
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How to turn Sound Recognition on and off in iOS 14
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- Open the Settings app.
- Tap Accessibility.
- Tap Sound Recognition.
- Tap the toggle next to Sound Recognition.
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap Accessibility.
- Tap Sound Recognition. Ensure it is activated.
- Tap Sounds.
- Tap the toggle next to the sound you want to detect.
- If it is the first sound enabled, tap Turn On Sound Recognition in the dialog box.
The same process can be performed to disable sound detection.
Once active, notifications will appear like any other at the top of the screen, complete with the alert sound and vibration if they are enabled. If an Apple Watch is configured to show notifications from the iPhone, it will also make a noise and vibrate, as well as displaying the alert.
Turning on Sound Recognition will mean the 'Hey Siri' verbal prompt for Siri will not work while it is active, meaning you can't simply ask questions of Siri without manually triggering the digital assistant. The dialog box that appears when you activate your first sound in Sound Recognition warns about this change.
'Hey Siri' will automatically reactivate once Sound Recognition has been turned off.
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