Iphone 6 iOS 8: Randomly makes noise (tri-tone). No new messages, notification, and when on vibrate mode (randomly vibrates instead of tri-tone) ect...

UPDATE:

I found the one app in the 'DO NOT INCLUDE' that had a "sound-only" notification and I turned it off thinking all of this was the cause of that....but I'm still getting the phantom vibrations. However I do have another theory....bare with me please....

I have two mailboxes. One is set to normal notifications with sound and banner. The other is set to 'vibrate with badge notification only'. That particular mailbox also has several folders that have rules setup to send specific (but not all) mail into those folders. Before iOS 8, when new specific mail got re-directed into one of those folders, i would NOT get a badge or vibration which is the expected result. What I'm finding now is that those phantom vibrations are coming at the same time when those specific mail messages are getting re-directed into a non-inbox folders. There's no badge because it's no longer in the inbox.

I'm guessing what's happening is that the mail goes to the inbox (vibration occurs) but then is almost simultaneously redirected to it's proper folder (no badge appears). It's as if the vibration setting is set to check too quickly and is not giving the mailbox enough time to determine where the message should go.

Anyway this is my working theory and I know it's sounds complicated....

I have the same problem and after doing a little digging in my phone I found that I get a Data log each time it happens and that the error Reason is "Watchdog: thermal not updating" and after doing some interweb sleuthing, it really seams like a glitch to me that will hopefully get ironed out in the next update.

Did anyone's phone get really hot to the touch when they did the update to IOS8?

ATT iPhone 5s

Having the exact same issue on both my ipad and iPhone (5S) -- both just started with this problem since upgrading to iOS 8.

I'm having the same issue and its driving me crazy. Since upgrading my 5S, my phone will randomly vibrate every few hours and when I look, there's no new messages, emails, missed calls, voicemails, app notifications, etc. It's driving me nuts and I can't figure out how to stop it.

We are having the same problem. When either mine or my wife's iPhone is called, both ring as well as my wife's iPad. It did not happen when only my phone had been updated but began happening immediately after updating the other iPhone and the iPad. It if high time Apple responded as this is VERY ANNOYING.

DADodge

this is not the same issue that we're discussing. In fact what you're experiencing is not an issue at all but a new feature in iOS 8. I'm assuming that all three devices (both iPhones and your wife's iPad) are signed into the same iCloud account. There's a new setting on the phones under the 'FaceTime' section called "iPhone Cellular Calls". If this is enabled on any iPhone, when you're on another iOS device within the same WIFI that's logged into the same iCloud account, your iPhone will redirect the call to any/all of those devices.

For instance, when I was home the other day browsing on my iPad, I was getting a phone call on my iPhone. The iPhone redirected the call to my iPad since they were both on the same WIFI and both are logged into my iCloud account. I was able to answer the phone call on my iPad even though it's clearly not a phone and its a cellular call, not facetime. You can turn this feature off on the iPhones to stop any redirects

When they release the new OS X software for the macs, you'll be able to do the same on there too. It's actually pretty cool

I am glad I found this. After updating this weekend to IOS 8 I get a couple of these tri-tone notifications sporadically. I just turned off all notifications possible and still received the tone today.

Same error here on iPhone 5S....Someone got a solution?

i'm having the same problem on a 5S ever since updating to iOS 8 or 8.0.2. Definitely a bug checked everything still random tri-tones!!

everyone should go here https://bugreport.apple.com/problem/viewproblem and report the problem to apple so they can work on it for the next update.

18480624Bug report was submitted successfully.

It's probably due to new mail received. This site has a great explanation for how to fix it. I just turned off the vibration and it worked to eliminate my random buzz problem.:

http://www.scottyloveless.com/blog/2014/how-to-stop-your-iphone-from-vibrating-r andomly

I figured out that my 'phantom sound (vibration on silent)' was indeed coming from mail. More specifically mail that's being filtered to a label (sub-folder).

Before iOS8, when I had mail delivered to my inbox, I would get a sound (vibration on silent), notification & a badge. This still occurs properly after upgrading to iOS8.

However before iOS8, when I had redirected mail to a label (filter setting in gmail), I would NOT get any sort of notification which is the intended effect. Unfortunately post IOS8 upgrade, I get the 'phantom sound (vibration on silent)' when this occurs. No badge, no notification but I get the phantom sound (vibration on silent). This to me is a bug. I don't know if it's a delay bug where the mail is getting redirected too slowly and the sound (vibration on silent) is triggered or if it's just a plain bug where it's being triggered incorrectly. Either way it's a bug to me.

I don't want to turn off sounds/notifications for mail because I still want to be notified when I have non-filtered mail coming to my inbox. I just don't want to be notified when it's filtered.

ALSO another way I confirmed it was coming from Mail was by setting a custom vibration to mail. Each phantom vibration I got, triggered that custom vibration.

I was having the same phantom tritone beep issue. I also went into my DO NOT INCLUDE list in Notification Center and found several apps that had notifications enabled (no actual switches on) and one app that had Sounds enabled. I turned all of them off. So far, so good. I additionally use Gmail, so I fortunately haven't had to screw with any iOS mailbox notifications.

I think this bug is definitely due to the switch between iOS 7 and iOS 8, and the reason is the addition of the "Allow Notifications" toggle for every app that you currently had installed. I believe that iOS 7 did not have this toggle, and an app would only be above DO NOT INCLUDE if one of the notification toggles (Sounds, Badge App Icon, etc) was turned on (or maybe if it was "shown in Notification Center"). It seems to have added the "Allow Notifications" toggle in the "on" state even if the app was previously under the DO NOT INCLUDE section. New apps to which you refuse notifications are correctly under DO NOT INCLUDE and are have that "Allow Notifications" toggle off.

To summarize the fix:

1. Go into Settings > Notifications and tap every app under INCLUDE to check for Sound only notifications.
2. Go under the DO NOT INCLUDE section and tap every app to check for Sound only notifications as well as to turn off the Allow Notifications toggle.
3. See polostefano's previous post about possible Gmail labels that previously caused no notification to now cause the phantom sound/vibration.

I think I might have found the issue. My iPhone 5S running iOS 8 just vibrated twice in a row + two tri-tones. It already happened before multiple times and I was getting pretty annoyed. But this time, when it vibrated twice, something occurred to me. I have Clash of Clans and I was upgrading two buildings and that were about to finish at this point. I also have all notifications turned off for Clash of Clans in Notification Center.

My theory right now is that Clash of Clans may be causing it. To everyone else that is experiencing the same issue, do you have the app installed?

I also just checked Notification Center and noticed that visual notifications were indeed off, but I didn't see before that I had "Sound" toggled on.

I am currently upgrading another building that will take 15 minutes, I will report back and see if the phone randomly vibrates + tritones again in 15 minutes.