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Weird Bubble Sound Happens Randomly

every once in a whiel, randomly, my iphone will make a weird bubble sound. it's not the sound that it makes when you send a text message, it's some other sound.

but it happens randomly. i can't figure out what's triggering it. and nothing happens when it makes this sound. the screen doesn't turn back on, i get no notification, no text, no email, no messages from anything, nothing from any of my apps

i have no idea what this random sound is. does anyone have any idea what this is or what it means?

iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on May 16, 2012 9:07 PM

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John Galt

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Posted on May 16, 2012 9:45 PM

The developers know about it. The last post in the thread above points to the following:

Here is the response from Life360, we found the culprit.

Charles K., May 04 01:30 pm (CDT):

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. This noise happens when an error message populates in the application. We have passed your feedback onto the developers to see if they would like to change the noise or remove it completely. Thank you for using Life360.

Charles

Apparently there is no notification bubble since the noise is associated with something that is not supposed to happen. It's a bug.

Mystery solved.

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cmaston

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Nov 12, 2013 4:21 PM in response to nwriko2

The exact same thing is happening with my phone. I wasn't sure how to describe the sound, but you said it perfectly. I have no idea why it keeps happening. It started about two weeks ago and the sound has randomly played several times for no apparent reason. There are no alerts on my phone and no apps are running when it makes the noise. I don't have life360 or skype so those aren't the problem. I have reset my settings so I'm hoping that may solve the problem, but it is getting very frustrating, especially when it goes off at 3am! I would love any other suggestions!

ak47_

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May 27, 2014 5:50 PM in response to bradhotdog

in my case it was Skype "contact now online" and "contact went offline" sounds, almost gone crazy after 2 days, muted them and its all good now 🙂 happened after i clean-reinstalled OS

Jul 11, 2014 3:52 AM in response to bradhotdog

I was able to resolve this issue on my phone, and I believe that there's a bug in iOS.

On my Notification Centre home screen Mail and Calendar both said that they weren't included in the notification centre, or had no sounds enabled, but when I went into them they had sounds and vibrations enabled.

I'd recommend going into the notification settings for all apps that ship with the phone such as:

Phone, Messages, Reminders, Photos, Game Center, Mail, FaceTime, App Store, Calendar, Podcasts

regardless of what the Notification Centre home screen tells you to check their sound settings.

Mar 20, 2017 6:37 AM in response to bradhotdog

The sound is appearing when someone of your contacts is coming online. On Windows, you'll get an notification in the right bottom of your screen. On Mac, you'll hear a weird 'bubble' sound.

Weird Bubble Sound Happens Randomly