iPhone now vibrating twice for unread text messages?

You get 2 alerts now. You get vibrate and tone at reception of the TM, and 4 to 5 minutes later, you get another vibration. That should be it. No, not without turning vibrate and tone off.

It is a new feature with 2.1. Here is a quote and link to Apples website listing features of the update:

"Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages"

http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

Anyway to turn this "feature" off? I find it terribly annoying. There should at least be the option to change this in preferences.

Hello,

I've checked all the settings options, and the option to disable the multiple alerts is not present at this time.

I'd suggest submitting an "Enhancement Request" via: www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
All feedback sent directly from there is read carefully and can be instrumental in getting changes or new features incorporated into future updates.

"Anyway to turn this "feature" off?"

No.

This is truly a humorous post. Here's why:

When the iPhone was first released, there were any number of self important, can't be bothered to check to see if the iPhone recieved a message when I wasn't looking, I want it to make a noise more than once so I don't have to look at the phone to see if I got a message individuals who were very vocal about adding functionality like this.

Seems it was added, and now folks want it to go away. Don't get me wrong, I would prefer it to be an option not a mandate as well. If I didn't pick up the message, I likely had a really good reason that is not likely to have gone away in five minutes. But still, this was a user suggestion and now everyone has to live with it for now. Funny stuff. 😉

This feature would be better understood if it applied to all alerts, especially missed calls and voicemail. It should be a simple Setting -> General to set if you want repeat alerts.