An accessibility option lets you turn the app’s sounds off. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Recently, Twitter users noticed that the app has started making a new sound — when you pull down to refresh your timeline, notifications, DMs, or pretty much anything else in the official app, there’s a robotic chirp sound that sounds like a futuristic bird or frog. The sound has been polarizing — some people have been mesmerized by it, while others hate it.
Thankfully, there are a few ways to make sure you don’t hear it, which I’ll cover in this article.
Set your phone to silent
The first is astoundingly simple: according to my tests, turning your phone to silent mode makes it so that the sound doesn’t play. On iPhones, that means flipping the ringer switch on the left side of the phone above the volume buttons so the switch is closer…
