Opinion: You can pay for white noise, but you don’t need to


If you have an iPhone, open Settings, then open Accessibility. Scroll down to Audio & Visual and then open Background Sounds. — Reuters

I work in a place that has on-site daycare for its employees, and I occasionally have to go fix a computer or iPad in a room with sleeping babies and toddlers. The teachers in those classrooms are usually playing white noise to keep the kids asleep.

What those teachers taught me is that you don’t need a dedicated white noise machine. You likely already have at least one way to play white noise.

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