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I never expected to find a feature like that in the settings menu of an operating system. Is there any history to this? How’d a white noise generator end up in the official Apple accessibility settings?

The idea of having a setting that makes my phone emit continuous noise until I turn it off is absolutely wild to me.

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I think you can ask Siri to play it for you which is probably how most people discover it.

My guess is the accessibility setting is for people that can't use Siri for whatever reason?

> for whatever reason

Weird reasons like...not trying to create a voice profile of yourself for corporations?

I didn't mean for that phrase to be flippant. I literally just meant whatever reasons there are. There's plenty of good ones. Some people are mute, some people have speech issues, etc.

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