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The default notification sound on the phones can be confusing and leads to missing an important message. It is easy to change the notification sound for emails, calls, social media, text messages, and any other app on your smartphone. Your smartphone comes with a default notification sound for all your apps and contacts, but you can change them whenever you feel like it, see steps How to change notification sound on an android phone?

Custom ringtone for contacts:

1. Firstly, open your contact app
2. Then click on the contact you wish to have a custom ringtone for
3. If not, then click on the three dots generally present on the top right side of the screen.
4. There, tap on the ringtone option and then select the desired ringtone from your smartphone.
5. Click on the Save option, and you have a custom ringtone.

To change the notification sound for all the apps:

1. Open the settings 
2. Then click on the option for Apps and Notification

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Then go for the notification option

Click in advance and change the default ringtone.

1. If you cannot find these options on your smartphone, then search for the “calls,reminders and notification” option
2. Then click on it and then click on the ringtone option
3. On the next page, you can select any ringtone and save the changes.

Change notification sound by the app:

1. Open settings
2. Click on the option “Apps”. 
3. Click on “Manage Apps”.
4. Then click on the app for which you want a customized ringtone, e.g., Whatsapp.
5. Then go for the additional settings. 
6. Then click on the notification part and change the tone.

You can also change the notifications by going to the settings of the app itself and click on the notification and change the tone.

To change notification sound in Gmail:

1. Open Gmail app
2. Click on the three lines on the top left side of the app
3. Then scroll down and click on settings
4. Select your email for which you wish to have different notification
5. Then click on “Notification sounds”.
6. Then a message will appear to click on “go to settings”.
7. Click on “sound”.
8. Then select the desired ringtone for the notification 
9. Save the changes, and you are done

How to change the ringtone for calls on Samsung phones:

1. Open the Settings app and click on “sounds and vibrations”

Click on ringtone

Select any ringtone you wish to apply

1. And you are done. If the ringtone you want to select is not in the list, then click on the plus sign “+” on the top right side of the screen and select the ringtone from the files stored in your smartphone.

Customize the ringtone for a particular contact in Samsung phones:

1. Open your Samsung contact app
2. Then select the contact you wish to have a different ringtone for and edit it.
   

Then click on “view more” at the end of the screen

Then click on “ringtone” and select the ringtone you desire. If your desired ringtone is not in the list, then click on the “+” sign on the top right side of the screen and select any ringtone saved in your smartphone memory.

For customized ringtones for apps in Samsung, you first have to store the ringtone file in the list. Then, only you will be able to change the single app notification.

Not just the android phones but iPhones also allow the user to have their own ringtone so that they don’t miss out on any important message.:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Then select “sounds and haptics”.
   

In the subsection “sounds and vibration patterns,” you will find the ringtone section

Click on the ringtone and select the desired ringtone.

1. A blue mark will be shown on the selected ringtone file.

Every phone provides its user choice to change the default ringtone into the desired one. You just need to look for how. 

The worldwide famous social media platform ‘Instagram’ provides you with several tools and features to give you a better user experience while using the application. Instagram gives you the feature to mute someone’s post or stories that you don’t wish to see. 

You can simply unfollow them if you don’t know them or you can mute their story or post and unmute again whenever you wish to. It just takes a couple of minutes to mute and unmute someone’s story or posts. 

If you have muted someone’s story before and now you want to unmute it or someone’s story not showing on the homepage it might be because you have muted their stories by mistake, there are two methods to unmute Instagram stories. Follow the steps mentioned in both methods carefully. 

How to unmute Instagram stories and posts 

To unmute an Instagram story follow the steps mentioned below: 

Method 1: Unmute someone’s story on Instagram directly from the homepage

Step 1: Open the Instagram app or log in from your web browser on your smartphone. 

Step 2: Swipe left the stories of other people till the end on your homepage. Once you reach the end you will see the muted stories with a grey ring around them. Muted stories have a grey ring around them whereas other stories will have a multi-colour ring around them. 

Step 3: Long press the muted story that you wish to unmute. After 2-3 seconds a pop-up will appear on the screen of the homepage. 

Step 4: Select the unmute option from the pop-up below the screen. To confirm if the story is unmuted, look for the multi-colour ring around the story that you unmuted. 

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Method 2: Unmute someone’s story and post on Instagram from the account profile page 

If you don’t see the person’s story or posts on the homepage then simply follow these steps to unmute the story or post on Instagram.

Step 1: Open the Instagram app or log in from your web browser on your smartphone. 

Step 2: Now go to the search option and type their username to head on to their account profile. You can even open their account profile by clicking on the username if their post appears on the feeds of your homepage. 

Step 3: Once you open their profile, tap on the ‘following’ option and a pop-up will appear on the screen. 

Step 4: Now tap on the ‘unmute’ option and another pop-up will open giving you the option to unmute the post and story of that person. 

Step 5: Swipe the bar on the left side to unmute a post or story or both. To confirm if you have successfully unmuted their story, look for the multi-colour ring around their profile picture on their account profile. 

Wrapping Up 

These were the two methods to unmute someone’s story and post. Once you unmute someone’s story and posts, their stories will start appearing on the homepage with other stories and also their posts will start appearing on the feeds of your homepage respectively.

Apple, as competitive as always, has released its student offer. The “Back-to-school” offer has entered India after being launched in the United States a month before. This offer is valid for all the students who are currently studying in the college or have been admitted recently.

This offer provides the students with a lesser price tag on Mac and iPad and also a set of Apple AirPods as a free gift. The students can customize anything easily without any price tag. The students have to confirm their admission to a university through the unidays link available on the front page. The offer can be availed from the apple official website as well as from the Apple premium reseller store, but only if you fulfill the requirements. Steps How to avail apple student discount in India?

Requirements to avail of the offer:

1. This offer is valid only for students in classes 10 & above students only. 
2. The student should have a valid identity card if your institute does not give personalized email addresses.
3. The student age should be less than 25 years.

The steps for confirming your identity as a student:

1. Search “apple student discount” on your google chrome

1. Then an apple store page will open, and there you will find a link “get verified with UniDays”. 
2. Click on the link, and the next page will open. Press continue.

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Then on the next page, you will have to enter your email address with a password of your choice.

Then on the next page, it will ask you for the name of the institution you are registered as a student.

1. After entering the institution, name and course year press continue.
2. On the next page, they will ask you for the personalized email address of your institute.

1. Enter the personalized email address and press “send email”.
2. Then open your personalized institute email address and click on the verification link in the mail.
3. If your institute does not provide any personalized email address, then click on the support option available on the page.
4. Then a page will open titled “verification support”.

How to avail apple student discount in India?

Click on the second option, and the next page asking for the institute identity card will appear.

Click on the first option and upload the identity card. The student needs to upload both sides of the identity card separately.

1. Click on the check, and the next page will ask for confirmation. Click on “confirm”.
2. The next page will ask you about the file you uploaded. Select whichever applies to you.

1. Now, you are all set to start the purchase.
2. You can select your desired apple product and proceed to check out with the available discount on the website.

If a student is not able to find the name of their institution in the options, then they can select the option “can’t find your institution?” and then they can give the name of their institute and also the personalized email address provided by the institute. You can also ask queries through the chat option available on the web page or by calling them on 000800 040 1966.
If a student wants to avail of the apple student discount India iPad through an offline apple premium reseller store, then they should have an identity card of the institute they are registered in. The offer is for a limited time period only, so hurry up if you want a discounted price tag as well as Apple AirPods.

Instagram gives you various features, from sharing your life moments with everyone to talking with someone over text messages and video calls.

There might be times when you are not in a good mood to reply to text messages, and if you want to read direct Instagram messages without seen or to get rid of annoying messages from strangers, here are some methods that can help you out.

Read Instagram Direct Messages Without Seen

Working methods to read Instagram DMs without seen

1. Use the restrict feature

Instagram gives you the feature to restrict a person from sending you unwanted messages on Instagram, whether it’s through comments or direct messages. This feature lets you block the bullies or spammers on Instagram.

Using the restrict feature, you have the option whether others can see their comments on your post, their messages get moved to the request section, and you can read their DMs without letting them know you have read.

Steps to use the restricted features:

• Open Instagram and go to that person’s profile whose message you want to read without seeing.
• Click on the 3 dots on the top right corner of the screen.
• Look for the restrict option and click on restrict.
• Now click on confirm, and now you can read Instagram DMs without letting them know you have read.

2. Disable WiFi/ Mobile Data

Another working method is to read Instagram messages without marking them, as seen by disabling your WiFi/ Mobile data to read someone’s messages. This method always works for text messages, but sometimes the photos or videos won’t play until you don’t open the chat to download the video.

Also, as soon as you open Instagram again, the messages will be marked as read whether you open it or not.

Steps to use the disable WiFi/ Mobile data method:

• Open Instagram and load and refresh the messages. Now disable your phone’s WiFi/ Mobile data.
• Now open Instagram direct messages and read the message without marking them as read.
• Now close the application and remove it from your background.
• Now, long-press the application and click on app info. Or you can go to settings – apps – manage apps and search for Instagram.
• Open Instagram and select the ‘force stop’ option so the app will not get connected to the internet unless you don’t open it.
• Don’t open Instagram until you aren’t ready to reply to them, or else it will show them you have seen their message.

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3. Using third-party applications

Third-party applications give you the feature to open Instagram direct messages without opening the message. All you have to do is download a trusted and reliable third-party application to secretly read Instagram messages and log in with your account.

You can read the messages without marking them as seen and reply to them whenever you want to. But use these third-party applications at your own risk, as some of these applications can read your data once you log in.

Wrapping up

These were some working methods to read Instagram direct messages without seeing that it works on every smartphone. Follow the steps carefully in each method to apply them carefully.