Audio / Vibrate customization

Sadly, no. The switch on the side near the volume buttons acts as a switch to turn off all sound and activate vibrate. You can turn off vibrate in Silent mode in settings so no sound or vibration comes out at all. I don't know how to just leave the ringer on though.

But, if you have the ringer on, wouldn't you still wake up from a call or a text?

And sometimes when I want to adjust the iPhone's volume, I press the buttons on the side and my screen reads "ringer" and it's just the ringer volume that's being adjusted. What the heck is going on?

If you aren't on a call or playing music, there is nothing to adjust, so it adjusts the ringer volume.

@Rob-
I have the same exact problem... coming from a blackberry.. you could silence everything and still keep the ringer on.... there has to be an easier way on the iphone instead of changing the settings morning and nite.
@HuskerN
Yes... if the ringer was on... it would wake me up if I got a call.. that the point.. I am a nurse and there fore on call all nite.. I have to be able to have the phone call ring... however.. I don't need to hear every other notification from email, text, facebook, apps, etc.. chiming or vibrating all nite waking me up if it isn't an emergency.. but I do have to leave the ringer on for emergencies.

Rob and Shelrn,

I have that same issue, and was told by the Apple store rep that there is no such customizable settings on the iPhone. I also came from a Blackberry background where you could create all different kinds of custom settings, and different volumes and tones for them independently. This seems like a huge gap in the "user friendly" category for the iPhone.

I spoke on the phone with an with an Apple rep, (about a different issue I was having),and explained the above siutation which you addressed. He thought it was a great idea, and suggested that I post it on the Apple feedback forum. He said that many Apple developers read it, and that is frequently the way lots of ideas get implemented. Maybe we should all find that forum and post!

Not being able to customize settings for just what you mentioned seems a bit outdated and behind the times. I too wanted my phone to be able to just ring, and not text and email alert me while sleeping. For the first few days I unchecked everything, and then spent 5 minutes re-checking everything the next day. That didn't last long! What a hassle that was. I now leave the email alert off, and just leave the text and phone ringer on.

As far as I am concerned the email alert is useless. My Blackberry alerted me IMMEDIATELY when I received an email. It would alert me simultaneously as I received it on my computer if I were sitting here, or sometimes even before. Now the closest setting I can set on the iPhone is every 15 minutes. 4 times an hour?? Really?? And no, it did not run the battery down on the BB.

But there are other great things about the iPhone, like the Safari browser. The Blackberry was very cumbersome for the internet, and extremely slow. And texting for me is much easier on the iPhone. So it's a trade off! lol



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wow, i feel like you are my twin separated at birth. Every sentence you wrote, I could have written myself. I just switched from my Tour to the iPhone today. Internet, pop up notifications, no sucky trackball are all advantages of the iphone. But I did like all the sound profiles I could have on my bb. Phone only is a setting that phones had 10 years ago. Not only is it useful for night time, but also if I was in a social setting and i didnt want my phone beeping every 5 min from text/bbm/email, but i did want it to ring if i got a call.

Maybe there's some app for this??

And the email issue you spoke of was the cause of my 30 min convo with an Apple employee on the phone this evening. I was used to my bb getting the email BEFORE it appeared on my gmail on the computer. Now it comes to my iphone 8-10 min after my computer. Oh well, I guess if I'm expecting an email I can go into Mail and have it automaticall refresh.