John I. Clark

Q: Voicemail alert repeats when opening voicemail?

This has been happening for so long I don't remember when it started, but maybe with iOS 8, or one of the subsequent updates??

 

The issue is this:

 

I miss a call, and the caller leaves me a message. I have on of the older 'Classic' sounds set as my voicemail alert (Choo Choo), and I hear it right after the voicemail arrives. Then, no matter how long I wait to go to listen to the message, the alert sound goes off again when I open my voicemail.

 

I don't believe this is default behavior, and it's really starting to annoy me. As far as I can tell, only Messages has an option to set repeated alerts. In fact, when researching this issue, I found lots of people wanting the option of repeated voicemail alerts! To be clear, what I'm experiencing isn't really what they're asking for, as the alert only happens again when I actually open the Phone app and tap on Voicemail. Very odd...

 

Is anyone else experiencing this, or know of a way to disable it? I heard the first alert, and can see the red dot with the '1' in it on Voicemail, telling me I have one unheard message, so I really don't need the Choo Choo sound to ring out again when I go to listen to the voicemail!!

 

So many bugs, there's just not enough time to report them all!  

iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.3, 64GB Space Gray

Posted on Mar 7, 2015 1:27 PM

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