Hello friends, I know some of you had some strong opinions of our notification sound change a few weeks ago. Here is a survey from our Technical Product Manager Roy.
Hey folks! We’re thrilled to offer you more Wyze notification sounds, but we can’t decide without your help. Please take a moment to vote for the most appealing options.
I listened to the six options and submitted a favorite. But, to be completely honest, I have been using a different notification sound for 3 years. I just downloaded a clip of Groot and set that up in the Notification setting of the app in my Android phone.
I did that when I was beta testing and had multiple beta app versions installed and needed to know which app wanted my attention.
iPadOS here … Just voted for #6 primarily because it’s the shortest in duration. Quite often I have several notifications stacked up one after another and the longer notifications are just too much. Fwiw, my just voted for #1. ¯(ツ)/¯
If I were forced at gunpoint, dangling from a cliff over a pit of rabid alligators, to use one of those, I would also pick 6. But, I won’t use it. I am well over 50 custom tones for my Wyze Notifications already.
I feel the list of sounds are mostly tweaked versions of the original Woody Woodpecker. Most likely it was already paid for and so they are trying to use variations of it. But unfortunately not everyone likes the sound…
Something short and moderately loud would be great, Wyze!
Why force a sound on everyone? How about just providing the steps for both Android and iOS users to change the sound ourselves? I’m using the red alert alarm from the original Star Trek TV series and despise the fact that Wyze changed the sound without providing us the option of using it or not.
Android always had the ability to change the sound natively for any app. I’ve always used my own sound. From what I understand this ability is limited on iOS.