Outgoing Message Tone on IOS 7.. How to disable?

Just got an iPhone... Way to go Apple.

I would like to hear a tone for an incoming message because ya'know it's an incoming message.

But do I really need an alert to let me know that I have just sent a message?

Pandoraseve wrote:

Just got an iPhone... Way to go Apple.

I would like to hear a tone for an incoming message because ya'know it's an incoming message.

But do I really need an alert to let me know that I have just sent a message?

II'm currently in an area with signal strength issues. Texts can take a long time to finish sending. The tone can be quite useful when Im texting a couple ofdifferent people, moving between conversations. Some texts are failing. The sent sound (or lack there of) is helping me keep on top of things.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

Some texts are failing. The sent sound (or lack there of) is helping me keep on top of things.

That would be one point of having a sound option available to use. And I might be wrong (as I am not frequently in low coverage areas), but I think there is also some sort of onscreen message indicating that a message had failed, and maybe an option to cache the message until sufficient signal is achieved and sent out then.

But my point remains, I don't need (or in my case want) a sound PROCLAIMING that I had just sent a text message. Assuming that I have a signal/connection to a network, the outgoing message sound is not for me, but rather for the other people within earshot to know that I had just sent a text message. I don't need this. I don't want it. I could just turn ALL of my sounds off, but no I shouldn't have to do that. I could turn my sounds off only when I send out a text message, but no I shouldn't have to do that either.

I understand what you are saying Meg St._Clair, and I love you, but it would be nice to have a separate sound option for sent and received text messages.

You seemed to be asking why such a tone would be necessary. I gave an example. If you wish to provide Apple with feedback about how you would prefer things to work, use this link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

You're welcome. And it appears to still be the same in iOS 8.2.

There is no separate outgoing text sound.

"Contacts" was not installed by default out-of-the-box on my (then) new iPhone 5S. But it can't be deleted now (under 8.2, possibly earlier).

Darren Hatch wrote:

"Contacts" was not installed by default out-of-the-box on my (then) new iPhone 5S. But it can't be deleted now (under 8.2, possibly earlier).

You may not have noticed it but it was there. It comes pre-installed.

I know it seems incredible. But a thorough search using the "Search" function did not reveal Contacts. Neither did looking around on a nearly empty phone. The cold, out-of-the-box phone didn't have it on there. Unfortunately I don't remember which operating system came installed on it. It would be difficult to verify, since "Restore" downloads new stuff.

I do agree its helping in some occasions I too live in a place where the signal strength fluctuates. But It must be left to the user's preference. It just freaking annoying to hear when you are conversing so quickly and especially in a room full of friends. If you put on vibrate or silent surely I miss some text often.

OOkay I can attest to what Darren said. with the new iOS update it is simple to edit each individual contact that you havefrequent conversations with to a tone you prefer and then set your text tone under settings to "none" under the alert section

The_k!d wrote:

OOkay I can attest to what Darren said. with the new iOS update it is simple to edit each individual contact that you havefrequent conversations with to a tone you prefer and then set your text tone under settings to "none" under the alert section

But this thread is about the outgoing text tone. Not the one a text makes when it comes it, something it's always been possible to change.

Settings < Sounds < Sent Mail < None. It will turn off the sound when you send an Email and an outgoing text message