Disabling Push notifications for SMS

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Disabling Push notifications for SMS

I'm fairly new to iOS, and I'm trying to find a way to disable the push notifications presented on events -- like when you receive a text message.

It would be great if there were a way to NOT have push notifications pop up and potentially interrupt whatever I'm doing -- but still have the badge update on the Messages app icon to indicate something new and unread.

Can this be done, or do we need to wait and hope that Apple puts the webOS notifications guy they hired to good use? My last phone was a webOS one, so I got spoiled with that very slick and arguably "better" notifications system.

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15" MacBook Pro (06/2009), Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 9, 2010 6:45 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 9, 2010 6:49 PM in response to exigence

Settings > Sounds > New Text Message > None

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exigence Author

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Oct 9, 2010 6:52 PM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

The sound is fine -- it's just the push notification I'm looking to disable.

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Alex3324

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Oct 9, 2010 7:45 PM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

This only silences the notification... Doesn't stop it.

OP, I wish there was a way to do this, but short of jailbreaking the device, you can't do it. You can turn off message preview, which still shows a notification, but without the preview of the message. Settings > messages > preview =off

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Answer 4

Apr 22, 2011 6:09 PM in response to exigence

Apple Development: This needs to be addressed. Like the others, my experience on the device is being interrupted by SMS notifications. I'm watching a movie on my iphone, but my twitter feeds (which goes to my SMS) interrupts the movie constantly with SMS notifications. Each one pauses my movie, I have to press close, and then unpause. Really annoying. There should be a setting to turn-off SMS notifications and let the App Icon's badge counter take care of notifying you of new messages. Seriously. This is an annoying issue that should override any perceived benefit of compelling users to "close" SMS message notifications. Seems like a simple fix, too. Please help us development.

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Kwopau

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Apr 22, 2011 7:23 PM in response to JPSAppleOwner

Apple does not respone here. They may read it from time to time, and you aren't refering your issue to Apple here. However, You can leave your feedback to:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Also. If you are watching a movie, then why not just log off twitter, or disable the sms being sent from the twitter service?

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tal1971

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302 points

Apr 23, 2011 12:30 AM in response to exigence

Not sure if you will have already tried this:

On the iPhone go into Settings. You will then see Notifications. Click on this and you will see what apps etc you get Notifications sent/pushed through. You can either turn Notifications OFF altogether or select which apps you do not want to receive Notifications from.

Hope this helps 🙂

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