Calendar Alert Sound Not Changing - iPhone 13, iOS 15.5

Apple are you reading these reports, do something. You have only issued the bleeding obvious, we all know how to change the alerts, the problem it does not accept the one we select, it ticks it as the sound you want but does not carry through with the change, do you understand what we are getting upset about, or is apple hoping we will go away, well if we do we will talk to google pixel or samsung about a new phone

At this juncture I’m so invested in the Apple landscape it would be an even bigger challenge to integrate an android device. My only saving grace is the Apple Watch on my wrist. So long as I have it on I’ll be alerted to pending events on my calendar.

I agree with Nuttee on this one. Apple’s standard response is to do the obvious, “select the sound”. If they read the reports they’d realize that we have all done that and done some proper trouble-shooting on our parts. This is either a bot responding to our reports, or they just don’t care.

Better advice on their parts would be; “Get rid of your crappy iPhone that was way too expensive and doesn’t do the simplest thing and go buy an Android or a Pixel…”

@jatoav8or: I’m glad you have a bearable work-around. I paid $2000 for a phone that doesn’t work right. I’m not about to buy another of their products to try and make the first one do what it should.

But this works! I did not like the fact, that I had to redo all other settings, and it honestly also took me a while to figure everything out, that I previously did, but it works now!!

Thanks for the tip, it bothered me enough, to take on the pain of re-doing all the settings!

kind regards :)

Thanks TCampbell55 for your input on this problem. Looks like I'll need to do a Full Reset on my iPhone.

Quick question then: will I lose all my Calendar events too? I have an iPad and Mac also, so is there a way I can CMS ace anything via these?

Cheers

I haven't done a reset myself so I don't know for certain, but my understanding is that you will lose everything on your phone., Photos, Contacts, Old Message strings, all your apps, Music, all personal settings...

In my case, all that other personal stuff is much more important than the sounds generated by the Calendar App.

I suspect a backup will not help either, as it would just reintroduce the problem. It certainly transferred with my phone when I upgraded to an Iphone 14 recently. Thats pretty much the equivalent of a Reset.

The trick will be to save your personal data in individual sets of data and reimport it after the reset, but how you could do that I have no idea.

I use a Windows PC, so I can't help with Ipad or Mac ways of doing this. Maybe there is an App that may help.

A Reset is a very blunt instrument. Personally, I advise putting up with the Calendar sounds as they are.

I have the same problem. I have done everything everyone has been told to do. It will not change. At 15.6.1

Same! I have an iPhone 12 plus pro and am having the same issue as everyone else in this thread. I guess I have to escalate to calling or just go into the Apple Store.

I'm also trying to change the sound. Done it exactly the way the Apple guy said via 'sounds & haptics' but it just WON'T change!😠