A majority of you use this sound profile on your phones

Smartphones these days can do so much more than just make and receive calls. Most of us escape our phones for instant messaging, media consumption, web browsing, or just aimlessly scrolling through social media. But when a call actually comes in, does your phone ring?

We recently conducted a survey on our website asking our readers about their preferred sound profile on their phones. Here are the results of that survey.

Which sound profile do you mainly use on your phone?

Results

As you can see from the table above, most of our readers – 48.3% of 1,426 respondents – prefer to keep their phones on ring mode.

Meanwhile, 31.3% of voters choose to keep their phones vibrating and 14.8% have put their phones in silent mode.

A small percentage of respondents (2.6%) leave their devices in “Do Not Disturb” mode, which companies such as Apple and OnePlus enable via warning sliders.

3% of the voters in our survey also chose the option “other”. They left comments on our survey article to tell us exactly what custom sound profiles they are using.

Here’s what our survey takers had to say.

Your comments

DBS: Well … it’s a phone, so it seems a bit silly to turn off the ringtone. I left it on and then programmed DND for my bedtime so I never had to mess with sound profiles. When I have a meeting and really can’t be interrupted, my phone is turned off.

Madhur Tewani: I leave the phone on DND with multiple rules based on the day of the week and time of day. Primarily so as not to be disturbed by conversations from unmarked contacts and non-conversation notifications.
Calls and conversations from marked contacts always ring, sometimes even calls from unknown callers ring.

EeZeEpEe: Ringtone on, except when I’m silent at work and my watch is alerting me of messages and phone calls.

Hatcb21: I use Bixby routines to mute my phone at night, vibrate it for work hours, and set the tone for the rest of my waking hours. Other routines change the volume depending on certain conditions such as location or connection to a particular Wi-Fi network.

Thelonius: I let my phone vibrate because it’s always with me and I have a smartwatch that gets notifications anyway. I spend most of my day at work or in a room with at least one other person, so having my ringtone would be just unbearable. I really only activated acoustic notifications when I am expecting a time-sensitive / important message or a call. I muted my phone before bed. I also have a 3 step alarm regulator that makes changing profiles very easy. IDK why not every phone has one. In the US it’s really just Apple and Oneplus.

paulius: My phone is always vibrating and I don’t usually feel it, but I have a Samsung band that vibrates with important notifications.

Robert John Hebert: Quiet when the sun isn’t shining on me. Very brief single “thing” during the day. My watch vibrates.

Sanket Prabhu: As an insurance advisor, I tend to mute my phone temporarily during meetings. For the night, I set the Bixby routine for vibration mode. Other than that, the phone has a custom ringtone for the rest of the day.

thesecondsight: All of my ringtones are customized. Some are songs from my eclectic music collection over the years. Some are scores from video games or movies. Some are even quotations from favorite books. I create all of my ringtones with the audio editor / recording tool Audacity and Linguatec Voice Reader, a text-to-speech application. There is no reason why ringtones have to be boring and boring.

EasyCare: I leave it on with a ringtone. Now I mostly only get calls from couriers or food deliveries. I also make sure that notifications are only sent by those who are important to me. When I need some rest, I turn on the timed DND. I find it strange that someone would silence a communication device by default for no clear reason.

2Star Hoodlum: My device is intended for media consumption first and then for a telephone. Silent and occasionally vibrating, there is seldom a situation that requires my attention immediately.