Double Message Alerts with iPhone 4s.

Thanks....

I believe I have half solved the problem .....

Like other users have posted, go notifications - messages & by turning off 'view in lock screen' will stop the double alert tone splutter!

Although once you have done this you have to unlock your phone & check your messages manually (which is a right pain) rather than them being presented to you on the lock screen!

I have tried resetting/hard resetting the phone & turning 'view in lock screen' back on in message notifcations & straight away the double spluttering comes back!!!!

So there is a way to stop it but it's not very convient & time consuming!

APPLE NEED TO SORT THIS OUT!

Hope this helps some of you guys out 🙂

Will Apple replace the phone for this issue? I saw some posts from back in October where some people were able to go to Apple Store and get a replacement

I've had this issue several times. Quick and easy way to fix it.

Hard reset the device by holding the sleep/wake button and home button until the phone reboots and the apple logo appears (ignore the 'slide to turn off' slider that appears and keep them held down until the Apple logo appears)

I FIX IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

*➕* Settings > Messages > Turn (OFF) iMessage

Than switch off your iPhone and switch on back. Send a message to yourself and lock the iPhone directly you should hear the message tone normaly .

*➕* Go back to Settings > Messages > Turn (ON) iMessage

After you turn on iMessage send a message to yourself and lock the iPhone directly , you should hear the message tone normaly.

*➕* Switch (OFF) the iPhone & Switch (ON) back than switch (OFF) again and remove the SIM card blow on it and put it back . Switch (ON) your iPhone and that's it 🙂

(Sorry For English) & (Sorry for swtiching OFF & ON 😝)

Thats not a solution, thats just intructions to do a hard reset. Im afraid that solves nothing norman! :'(

Hard reboot fixed my probelm! Thanks guys!!!

Only Apple can fix this. All your fixes are only a temporary solutions.

I know that this is a known bug in iOS 5 but these solutions worked for me. Hopefully they can help someone else too.

Yes, but only temporarily. The problem always comes back.

It hasn't occurred since. And a hard reset is a FIX to many little iOS bugs. The fact that it's not a permanent problem for every iPhone user and performing a hard reset fixes it then it suggests that the issue is with memory getting stuck in the 'RAM' and not a problem with the message tones themselves

Im dealing with the same prob. First i had an iPhone 4 and since apple lunched iOS5 i updated my iPhone and i started facing that overlapping notification sound ! Then i brought the iPhone 4S and the same thing is happening overlapping notification at first i thought its a problem related to "Viber" i deleted it it worked but it doesn't make sence that an app affect the whole notification system in the iPhone and as i cn see here that we r alot of ppl whom r facing the prob so sure thats a software issue or maybe conflect between apps for example ( Whatsapp and viber r having problems if they r installed together ) but as i said that problem happened when i first installed iOS5

I agree with Sheetos00!

There is obviously some sort of memory leak in the iOS. One recommended fix with computers (I mean devices that have processor and memory etc etc not just PCs) when facing issues that present like this is to flsuh the memory by doing a hard reset.

I agree yes it is a temporary fix but a fix all the same. I have had this issue probably 3 times in the time I have owned my iPhone (from the 4 then to the 4S). It was also not just with iOS 5.

Try it, you will be pleasently surprised 🙂

dorkiken, your suggestion didn't work in my case. As per other threads, I switch off notification, and message and reboot to switch back on everything again, still there are two alerts for my messages. Then after followed your steps, no avail.