iPhone gives alerts indiscriminantly

I have been getting these chimes too!

There's got to be a way to figure this out. Must be an app pushing a notification. What did you download recently? Maybe it's a nudge from Draw Something or Mint when a transaction goes through. Keep looking and I'll report back if I find anything.

Btw, my condolences for the loss of your mother and her friend.

I was watching Netflix on my iPad when that chime interupted the audio but not the stream itself. It just superimposed itself over the audio and when it was done playing the video's audio came back to the forefront as it wasn't muted just thrown into the background. I was wearing headphones so I knew I was hearing right.

A coworker suggested it was the sound of recieving new email but I've had that sound turned off since the original iPhone came out. And it concerns me more because it's not just my iPhone making this sound. I wonder if it's an iOS issue/bug/feature. It's such a mystery because it has to be indicating something and I just want to know what it is and eventually how to disable it.

Tom have you been able to record the sound? It's so sporadic on my end that I'd never be ready to catch it but your experience seems to have sporadic fits. Maybe a genius can figure it out from hearing the chime. I hear a harmonic two tone chime like a doorbell. Higher note, lower note.

I found the app making the chime! Google's GMail App makes this chime with any new emails that get pushed. It's a pleasant tone however the app doesn't use the notification center so I couldn't figure out to what I was being alerted. Did a quick test and got the app to chime by sending myself an email. It makes sense now that I think about the times I heard it chime on both my iPad and iPhone at the same time. Both were running the app in the background.

Will see if there's an option to turn off the chime in settings under the gmail app.