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How to Change the Text Tone in Google Messages on Google Pixel 11 Pro

How to Change the Text Tone in Google Messages on Google Pixel 11 Pro

The sound your Pixel plays for an incoming text is not a phone-wide setting — in Google Messages each notification category has its own sound. The path runs through Messages’ own settings, and in the recording the incoming-message tone changes from Eureka to Gentle Gong. The email address under the account name in the step 2 screenshot is blurred for privacy.

✅ Tested on
  • DeviceGoogle Pixel 11 Pro
  • SystemAndroid 17
  • AppGoogle Messages
  • Also works onOther Android phones with Google Messages
  • Last verifiedOctober 28, 2026

Every screenshot below is taken from the actual recording on this device — no stock images.

Before you start

  • This changes the tone for the Incoming messages category, which covers normal texts. Other categories keep their own sounds.
  • You need at least one conversation screen open — the profile icon sits on the Messages home screen.

Steps

Tap your profile icon in Google Messages

Open Google Messages and tap your profile icon at the top right.

Tap your profile icon in Google Messages

Tap Messages settings

In the account menu, tap Messages settings near the bottom. (The account email above it is blurred in this screenshot.)

Tap Messages settings in the account menu

Tap Notifications

On the Messages settings page, tap Notifications.

Tap Notifications in Messages settings

Tap Incoming messages

Scroll to the notification categories under Default settings and tap Incoming messages.

Tap Incoming messages under Default settings

Tap Sound

Tap Sound. It currently shows Eureka, the tone that is about to change.

Tap Sound, currently set to Eureka

Select Gentle Gong in Pixel Sounds

In the Pixel Sounds list, select Gentle Gong. Each sound plays as you tap it, so you can audition the list first.

Select Gentle Gong in Pixel Sounds

Tap Save

Tap Save at the top right to keep the new tone.

Tap Save to keep the new tone

Check the new sound

Back on the Incoming messages page, Sound now shows Gentle Gong — incoming texts will use the new tone from now on.

Sound now shows Gentle Gong

Good to know

  1. The same Sound row exists for every notification category in Messages — repeat the last four steps to give another category its own tone.
  2. Nothing here changes the ringtone for calls; that lives in the phone’s Settings → Sound & vibration.

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