Double Message Alerts with iPhone 4s.

My wife constantly had double rings for messages on her iPhone 4. I had an iPhone 4 and never had an issue. Then I bought the 4s and gave her my iPhone 4 that had no issues. As soon as she put it on her line, it started up again on my phone I gave to her. However, she gave HER phone to our daughter and that one quit doing the double ring. It sounds to me either a setting in backup that she reinstalls or it's on the carriers end. My guess is a problem with a setting or backup...so now I have been tweaking the settings to see if I can find the problem. So far I changed a couple things in messages and powered off/on and no double rings. Will see in a couple days if it works

ive tried it all now, restart from new phone, hard reboot soft reboot, still after few days it comes back!!!

So I have been having this issue since I received the new 4S. My wife has a 4S and NO issues. I had my first 4S replaced. All was well for about 2 weeks. Then it started again...so I don't feel this is a phone issue (if it IS, then I have terrible luck!). But again, if I turn OFF the vibrate with the sounds, I do not get a double tone or hiccup. Anyone else tried that?

I too am having this problem. I find it hard to believe that it is a hardware issue. Doing a hard reboot seems to have temporarily fixed it, but by all accounts above it seems it will come back after a while. This suggests to me that it is some sort of cache issue, after the sound cache fills up from a certain amount of texting, it starts giving those double alert errors.

Can someone from Apple please acknowledge the bug and tell us what you are doing to fix it? I'd hate to have to get a replacement phone already.

FWIW, I got my iPhone 4S the day it came out too. I'd be really surprised if they already have a new version/firmware out that fixes this specific issue. That's why I don't think getting a replacement is worth it right now.

One word, WOW!

I gave a fix to this problem a while back and nobody even bother to try my fix. I did this once and never had to do it again. There is a bug in iMessage.

Maybe I was not clear on the instructions on how to fix this.

Goto Settings => Messages.

Turn off iMessage.

Reboot your phone.

Test to see if the problem is gone.

Send a text to yourself and quickly press the home button.

You will not get the overlapping alert.

Go Back into Settings => Messages.

Turn iMessage back On.

Send another text to yourself.

Problem is gone.

Try it, because I know it works.

Again this is a bug with iMessage.

This worked for me on iPhone 4S 5.0.1

Thanks for that!

I hope it stays like this now.

Dorkiken's fix DOES work. I've tried it about 3 weeks ago and the problem hasn't come back so far.

Thanks, Dorkiken!

Your welcome bud. Glad I was able to help. How about some points =)

Is it this easy? Go to settings, notifications, messages and scroll down. Repeat alert said once on my phone. Switch it to never. It's worked so far. Let me know if it works

I have an iPhone 4, and this problem started for me about an hour ago. So far, it's only happening with Messages, not Facebook or Mail, or any other apps.

• I updated to IOS 5.0.1 a few days ago, before the issue started
• I did a soft reset, which, for me, didn't even temporarily fix the issue
• I didn't bother to do a restore or hard reset, because I heard this only temporarily works, and it seems to be a waste of time
• I did not have repeat alerts on, but I turned them on and then off again - no change
• I did not have iMessage on, so turning it off wasn't an option for me, so I don't think its a bug in iMessage. I went ahead a turned it on, then turned it back off, and reset my phone - no change
• I did have vibrate with notifications turned on, but I turned it off. This made the issue go away, turning virbrate with notifications back on did not make the issue come back. I'll post an update in a few days.

I'm not sure if that last one will work for everyone, just like iMessage seems to work for some, and not others.

I have managed to replicate the double sound on my device.

In my case it was only happening with Facebook notifications. I have disabled all progs from notifications under settings and that was it. So I started enabling one by one and guess what. Its the FB app itself and more precise the option "show on lock screen". Then I thought it would be a power issue of the screen draining power to open and show the message while the speaker was trying to play the sound but NOOOO! This would happen even with the screen on. To be honest from what I understand its a probelm with the tri-tone sound notification itself and to overpass it I just disabled the "Show on lock screen" or whatever its called. I have also tried dorkiken's solution but i doubt it is the one for me as it only happens with notifications that have the tritone. We ll c...

I have suspeced Facebook for a while because the last time I had the problem it began with a facebook notification. Keep us posted.

As for me, two weeks ago I did a full restore, not from a backup, and have not had the problem since. I was planning to try dorkiken's solution if it came back. I have facebook very restricted, but I'll turn off "show on lock screen" as a preventative.

Thanks It worked...

I tried to replicate the double ring tone again on my 4S with the FaceBook app as per how you did it, but unfortunately I'm unable to get the double alert again.

I doubt it has anything to do with the tri-tone because you can set the text tone to whatever you want and I was having the problem with a different tone and not the tri-tone.

My theory is that it has something to do with the way how iMessage is delivering the messages via the internet -lag perhaps? I did notice that when I was having the issue, my text messages were coming in late and in hordes at a time with the annoying overlapping.

For those who had the iMessage feature turned off from the start. When the iPhone was first setup on iOS 5, it tries to enable the iMessage feature by default. Try enabling the iMessage, by this I mean doing it right with a complete activation login with email -not just turning it on and off, reboot, then turn the feature off, reboot again, do a text test and see if you still get the overlapping tone.

Let me know if this fix works for you. I want to duplicate the problem again, but it will not come back =/

Tried ur solution dorkiken. Lasted a day or two. I think it's the reboot that makes it look like it worked.