November 1, 2011

iPhone rings twice with text message

By xiao

It was kinda off putting with my new iPhone 4S to find out that Apple makes SMS alerts ring twice (once on receive and one reminder) instead of having an LED light for alerts like in Android or Blackberry. Kind of a workaround rather than a real solution to the problem of how to find out I have alerts pending when I missed the first alert. Apple operates on a push principle and Google/RIM operates on pull.

Anyway, if I have reason to miss the first one, I most likely won’t notice the second one. It’s also misleading when it rings twice because you’d think there’s 2 messages.

To turn that functionality off, go to Settings->Notifications->Messages->Repeat Alert->Never.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 8:30 am and is filed under Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
  • Paresh

    i was always wondering of having two sms.. but that was reminder.. really funny.. thanks for the instruction, now at least it will ring once only on every sms

  • Gest

    Great! thanks

  • Gabe

    OMG THANK YOU.  This was driving me insane.

  • A Marie21

    mine still gives me two reminder alerts, even after i changed it to never. SO annoying! help!

  • http://tech.xster.net/ xster

    Sometimes it happens to me that the setting resets itself after a while. Set it to some other setting and back to ‘never’ again to see if it works.

  • http://twitter.com/powkang powkang

    WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS???