How to change Gmail notification sound

Look, people. The reason we use the Gmail app instead of apple's mail app is because the mail app won't allow push notifications for gmail - just fetch. So if we want to be alerted whenever we get a new email, we MUST use the gmail app. Either that, or wait up to an hour, or wait less time and watch the battery drain with more frequent fetches.

Why don't we just use our iCloud email addresses? Because gmail is portable. If you switch to android or pc, it's much easier to stay connected to gmail than iCloud. Remember. It's Apple we're taking about. Closed stystem. Proprietary everything. Apple does not work well and play well with others (gmail, Amazon, etc). It's just the way it is.

It appears your gmail is synced with your device's mail app, since you hear a sound when you receive a new gmail message. The sound you are hearing should be the sound that has been set for new email in the device's mail app. You can choose that sound by going to Settings, then clicking on Sounds, New Mail, ALERT TONES. Mine is set to Chord. On this screen you can also set the default vibration for when the device is on mute.

I added the gmail app when I got my phone, but did not hear any sounds until I found out how to sync my gmail with my iphone's mail app: Settings, Mail, Accounts - Gmail, Gmail; then turn on Mail (and Contacts, Calendars, Notes as you wish.)

If you have a paid google account, you can get push emails for gmail instead of just fetch by setting up an Exchange email account. See this: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-set-up-push-gmail-in-iphone-mail-1172554. I just learned how to sync my gmail app with my iphone's mail app so I could get a sound when I receive a new gmail message (since gmail does not offer a sound alert.) I was also able to choose the sound in the settings for new email. On my test emails from iphone mail to gmail, the banner and sound happened immediately.

See if this helps,

Settings>Sounds>New Mail

I have gone to Settings > Sounds > New Mail> and chosen Popcorn (and other sounds which have not worked either)

You are correct that this is just for Apple Mail.

Under "Today View" Today Summery, Calendar Day view, Reminders, and Tomorrow Summary are all on, even though I do not know what any of these are for and will probably not be using them.

These are shown in Notification Center, to access pull down center top of home screen, probably not helpful in this situation.

Then there is a long list of Apps or functions to include, one of which is Gmail. I have the Gmail App.

I do not have the App itself so probably can't help with these.

Have I figured it out?

I think you have,

Not sure of any other options withoout using the built in mail app. You could set that up as well just for the notifications, but it would probably be a pain.

I, however only use Apple mail, with multiple email accounts including a couple gmail accounts and everything works well for me that way.

Good luck and sorry I was not of more help.

I got a little lost with all the steps -

But in settings, notification center, mail, it gives me a specific choice for Gmail (which is what I use in the mail app). the alert sound is changeable there.

I don't see what you see in notification center > mail

There is no such choice as Gmail in there.

iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.3

This remains a mystery to me and to this day the Gmail iOS app still does not allow changing the sound the phone makes when you receive a Gmail. Since I do not use Apple's mail software this has turned into my #1 gripe about my iPhone.

The best solution I can think of is this:

- Link your Gmail to the Apple Mail and go to the notification settings

- Have it NOT show notifications in the Notification Center

- Pick your customized sound

- Go to Gmail app notifications

- Turn off Sounds

- Show in Notification Center

This is the safest way IMO to get this as close as possible to the real thing. You will be getting two inbox's with mail so hopefully that isn't too bad as I'm not sure how much extra space this will use, so sorry if this actually is problematic for someone.

What these steps ultimately do is that it makes sounds too the gmail apple app but everything else is tied to the gmail app. By not showing gmail apple mail app emails in the notification center, you don't push out your other apple mail account notifications in there. So your gmail app has all 10 slots available to itself in the notification center. I don't know why all apple mail notification center is tied to just 10 (i have 5 email accounts tied to apple mail so the clutter is real) so having the gmail app for notification center is great to solo out!

There are a few issues with this solution but I still think it's better than having the unfamiliar gmail app sound. The gmail apple mail app can only fetch, not push. So there will be a little delay in the sound at times, you can try messing around with the lock and unlock screen notifications but I think it's better to leave the gmail app on for everything except the sounds. And turn off everything for the gmail apple app except the sounds. Aside from that delay, by turning off the gmail sounds you still get the notifications, and you phone will notify you whenever when it finally arrives in the apple mail. I hope this solution helps some of you guys out and let me know what you think too, as I'm still experimenting to see if I want the apple mail portion show up on the lock screen instead of the gmail.

Except for the fact that the Apple Mail client cannot consistently receive Gmail messages. Their push/fetch/connection to Gmail is glitchy and you'd be lucky to get this working for longer than a week without having to delete your account and then add it again....

Apple Mail Client stops working abruptly and randomly with Gmail

Hey thanks.. This could also be a Google problem! How hard is it to code the Gmail app to have a sound selection feature within the Settings. Ridiculous! To this day I still do not use Apple's mail software and I'm stuck with that annoying Gmail notification sound.

I have always had this issue too. For some inexplicable reason, Google simply refuse to allow a change in notification sounds on the iphone. app It's ridiculous to make the only choice such a quiet little "bong." I've missed thousands of notifications but I have no choice...gmail on the iphone mail ***** and emails only occasionally come in...and even then, sometimes hours late. The Gmail app has Push delivery, so at least the emails come in right away....you just don't hear that they're there!!!