Double Message Alerts with iPhone 4s.

Tried dorkiken's method. It worked for a few HOURS and it came back again. I thought it worked and I was so happy. Lol.

Apple needs to fix this. I hope they can fix it with the new ios update. I don't want to end up with a refurbished iPhone.

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How would you end up with a refurbished one mate?

Do you mean that replaced iPhone is refurbished?

Thisvactually worked for me. I just got my phone on black Friday and updated it with the latest iOS and started getting double alert chimes and thought it had to do with the push notifications. I went into settings>notifications and turned all the double chimers off then went into settings>messages and turned iMessage off. Reset the phone by holding it past the reboot til the phone turned off. Turned it back on, turned on the notifications I had switched off and problem fixed

Yes, a reboot will fix it, but for most the fix is temporary. So far no one has been able to definitively figure out the cause or a permanent solution. Read to whole thread it is pretty interesting.

I can report, however, nearly tree weeks ago I did a restore as a new phone, not from backup, and have not had any problem since.

I was facing the same problem, and guys its so simple to fix the problem! just restart your iphone and the problem will be fixed.

I hope that helps

I have this issue, but with messaging and with Facebook alerts. I just did a hard reboot as suggested - will let you know if that works. If not, off to the apple store I go!

Guys the issue is with the notifications setting "View in Lock Screen"...

- If you turn this setting "OFF" the alert doubling stops permenantly.

- The funny thing is that a REBOOT also solves the issue but only for a few hours 🙂

This could answer the question I posted here on november 3rd. The thing is that now you're gonna have two separate alerts: the first one when the message is received; and the second one, when you unlock the screen and the notifications center alerts that there are new messages. The only solution that I found is to choose "none" in the alert type =S

That does not solve the issue for me...

The only solution for me is really OFF the "View in Lock Screen" for the application(s).

This is now what I have - if the phone is locked there is a tone and then there is an additional tone when I unlock the phone and the banner notification pops up. This may be a separate issue. If you're away from your phone when the initial tone sounds, then this would be helpful. But for me, and I'm sure the vast majority, the locked phone is on me and the only reason I'm unlocking it is in response to the first tone, so the second is unnecessary/annoying.

For me, the initial problem was that 'alert reminder' was set to once, so I changed it to never. I also turned 'view in lock screen' to off.

Ultimate question - Is there a way to only have one tone regardless of whether or not the phone is locked?

Yea you can change the alert style to Alerts instead of Banners...

I'm in the same boat as you Lou.

What's ironic is, as I read through this thread and then signed up for the forums, I recieved an email on my locked iPhone 4S. I turned on the screen unlocked it and I was refreshed to see the banner show up, no vibrate, no sound, just the banner showing me what I wanted to see; a preview of the email that had just arrived. I quickly looked in the settings for Mail and jotted them down.

I went into Messages and verified I had the same settings. Then I texted myself, hit the home screen button, locked the phone and waited. The phone vibrated and made the text message noise. Fair enough. Then I turned the screen on, unlocked it and... boom... another vibrate and noise along with the banner. Boo.

Sent another text from my wife's phone. Same result. Annoying as ****...

EDIT: Same thing happens with WWF. Grrrr...

Yep, I noticed this too. Don't think I should have to turn off banners or switch to alerts to prevent this. If I'm using the phone I prefer the banner. Don't see any discernible difference in the settings either.

What's odd is I have been fine since the hard reboot. Once in a while when I get a meeting invite it seems to double beep, but it has stopped for txt, etc. This all makes very little sense but it is clearly a software issue and my guess is, so long as we make enough noise, it will be addressed in an update.

Getting a replacement phone may work, but the reality is that the Apple folks apparently dont know what it is yet and are just swapping out phones in some cases to make the customer happy. An honorable tactic but I am hoping they will do the right thing and fix the bug in the OS.

Mine is an iPhone 4 and it does the same thing. I already had iMessage off and it was still doing it...however I did not hard reboot afterward. Just did and will see the results if it returns.