Wave goodbye to the hold music blues! With Hold Assist, your iPhone takes the reins, alerting you the moment a real voice returns, so you can multitask like a pro.

Skip the wait with iOS 26 Hold Assist. Your iPhone waits on hold for you and alerts you when a rep joins the line.

Whether it's annoying or not, that music that pours through our earbuds or speakers on our phones while we're on hold is something we expect. Sometimes it's classical, sometimes it's jazzy. Even if we ...

The phone adds warbles, crackles, and periodic dropouts that are impossible to replicate on the bandstand; these imperfections are what give hold music its soul. When I call a business and get put on ...

The first time someone invited me to a Slack Huddle—an audio call that happens inside the app—I didn’t know that I had to hang up at the end of it. I heard a series of descending bloops after my ...