If you get distracted or stressed out easily, your iPhone might be able to help you focus or calm you down. It can even help you fall asleep with white noise, and you don't have to install a third-party app or buy an audio track to turn your iPhone into a personal sound machine. The feature behind this magic is Background Sounds, which was introduced in iOS 15 and still works the same in iOS 16. Background Sounds can play white noise or nature sounds whenever you need to focus, stay calm, or rest, so you no longer have to resort to a clunky, space-hogging sound machine that costs more than... more
