Why do iMessage texts repeat twice?

Fixed - go to Settings/Notifications/Messages/Repeat Alert and set it to never. This will stop the dual alerts.

I'm having the same problem. The double message alert tones are really annoying. I have yet to figure out what the fix is. When I find out, (if I find out), I will post.

I am also being alerted twice after receiving a text and not reading it immediately. I have my repeat alert settings set to "never." I know for sure that I am alerted twice when receiving a text via the standard text messaging system, but I can't recall if I am alerted twice when I receive a text message via iMessage.

I, too, am also having this problem.

This is happening to me too...very frustrating

Okay... I figured this out. Kind of...

On my phone (iPhone 4s) I went to Settings > Messages > Received At

I have my phone number and my email address listed. I tried to remove the email address, but it would not let me do it. The REMOVE THIS EMAIL button would not respond.

So...

I then went to Settings > Sounds > New Mail

I selected 'None' for the alert tone. Problem fixed! No more double alert tones!

But...

This could be a problem for people who like alert tones for incoming email. It's not a problem for me, because I don't have my email pushed to me (I check it manually when it is convienent to me). I do this because I did not like my phone constantly 'binging' everytime I get an email, and helps conserve battery.

The real problem is why the REMOVE THIS EMAIL button will not respond under the Messages Settings.

Hope this will help some of yall.

I am receiving (all of a sudden) every imessage as a SECOND IDENTICAL text message. This has only started happening today...no other settings changed. I receive the imessage first and then the identical message as a text message. Please help resolve this. It is not an alert. Same problem, cannot delete the email setting in messages.

re dannyfromconverse, that didn't work for me. I only have my ph# listed as an iMessage deliery point on my phone, so can't remove any email addresses. I did disable all mail notification sounds, but I still get alerted twice for each iMessage and SMS.

It did occur to me earlier that I have iMessage enabled on my iPad using only an email address (an address which is in use on my iPhone), so I disabled iMessage on my iPad completely. I dunno, I figured if Apple was trying to push the same message to the iPad via email, the phone may have picked it up too, doubling the alerts. Alas, no change, I still get two alerts for every incoming message.

My next step is to disable that email address on my phone, but I don't have high hopes.

Is this caused by the settings in Notification Centre? In the Notification Centre for Messages, I have "Alert Style" set to "Banners", "Repeat Alert" set to "Never" and "View in Lock Streen" set to "OFF". Whenever I receive a text message, my iPhone makes the text tone sound without appearing on the lock screen as expected, but when I then unlock the screen and the banner appears at the top of the screen, it immediately makes the text tone sound a second time. It seems to be sounding the text tone sound for the banner in case you miss it, which is very annoying. It's the same for SMS or iMessage.

I have Messages set to NotCenter On, Style Alerts, Badge On, Preview On, Repeat Never, View in Lock On. For me, if I get a message it'll light up the phone and display a preview of the text in the middle of the screen (old school style). After a few seconds the screen will go dark. A minute or so later, the same event happens, same message. Note that I'm not actually receiving a separate message, just being alerted twice.

Did anyone try disabling iMessage, rebooting the phone, then re-enabling iMessage? That fixed it for me.

Sal_008 wrote:

Did anyone try disabling iMessage, rebooting the phone, then re-enabling iMessage? That fixed it for me.

I'm on iOS 5.0.1, and it's still not fixed, so I tried your suggestion but it made no difference.

Hi, I have the same problem.

Not only the iMessage/SMS, but also some other notifications from apps.

They just always sound twice back to back...

As I said above, I already have this set to "Never" and I still get the dual alerts.

Same. Has been 'Never' since I got the phone. This was never an issue with my iPhone4 with iOS5, and still isn't. My SO uses my old phone, and I've gone through every setting I can find to make sure they all match my 4S. I get dual alerts, she doesn't.