Double/Echo Email Notification Sound (iPhone 6 Plus and iOS 8)

It seems that anything you do after unlocking the phone solves the problem for about half an hour. I tried your specific steps and it worked for about half an hour and stopped working.

Looks like its fixed in iOS 8.1 beta 2

On beta 2 also - still doing the double/echo notification sound though!

I have a similar problem, but possibly with additional symptoms?

I have an iPhone 6 128 GB. iOS 8.0.0. I am using custom notification sounds (purchased via iTunes) for SMS as well as e-mail and a few other things. A couple of days ago, I noticed two things:

1. For e-mails, I get a double sound as described in this post except that one of the sounds is my chosen sound, the other is the default sound.

2. For SMS / iMessage, I only get a single sound, but it is the default ding, it is not my chosen sound. Perhaps worth mentioning that it has maintained my chosen vibration pattern.

When I go into settings, my custom tones are chosen for both. I have tried, changing the sounds, saving the settings and then going back and setting them back again. No effect. I have tried rebooting. No effect. I haven't done a factory reset and I don't really want to. But I will if need be.

Has anyone else had similar issues with custom ringtones?

Cheers.

It started happening to me as soon as I got iOS 8 on my old iPhone 4S, but continued to happen when I got the 6 Plus 128gb. It must be a problem in iOS 8.

here is the fix for the problem

with iOS 8 there are 2 sections for the sound for email.

1) settings >sound > new mail

and

2) settings > notifications > mail > icloud/exchange/etc > notification sound.

for my phone i had to enable the in sound in option 2 while disabling the sound the option 1.

edit: same goes for vibration settings as well

That didn't work for me. As with all fixes it seems to work for a short while and then the problem returns.

wonder how you got it to work? i have tried that both ways and i still have the problem..

Anyone have any luck fixing this yet?I just downloaded 8.1 and the problem is still there.

Send the info to Apple so they'll receive as many bug reports about it as possible...this will move the fix higher up on their priority list:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

It appears that iOS8.1 did not fix the ding notification that happens when the phone is locked and then again when it is unlocked. I submitted a bug report. I hope everyone else does the same as this is annoying as ****.

Hi there - I also have the exact same issue on an IPhone 4S with IOS 8.0.2, and I tried almost everyhting but nothing worked - so this is obviously a bug coming with version 8 ...

But just to come back to one of the proposed solutions above .... mentioning that you can effectively set sounds via

1) settings >sound > new mail

or via

2) settings > notifications > mail > icloud/exchange/etc > notification sound.

Why are those 2 options there because to me this is duplicated feature to set a sound in "sound" or in "notification -> sound"

I was also thinking that both sounds defined there would play at the "same time", and that it was the issue, but it is not.

Nethertheless, why are those 2 options present and when are they used the one or the other ??

And another one on 8.1 with iPhone 6. At least it's not just me. Also issues with keyboard click volume in whatsapp but typing this that seems normal. So many bugs! Feedback report sent!

I also had the same issue on my iPhone 5s after updating to iOS 8. It happened after the update to 8.0.2, and also after switching to a new iPhone 6, and it didn't disappear after 8.1 update. Talked to Apple Support, but they only suggested to reinstall from scratch.

Then I read about the two different settings as described above. I checked my settings and found:

1) (sound section) Vibration set to Fast, and mail sound set to my mail sound

2) (notification section) Vibration set to Fast, and mail sound set to my mail sound

I then tried to find out if there is a combination of settings that makes the echo disappear. While testing, I found that the echo was not only happening with the sound, but also with the vibrating. The echo finally disappeared after I deactivated vibration in the sound section.

Since that wasn't the setting I wanted, I kept changing the settings for vibration and mail sound several times. I also tried deactivating notifications for mail completely and then reactivating it. I somehow got the settings to work, but that didn't last long (maybe because I wanted to check what the settings are).

There seem to be some really weird connections between the two settings. I also sent a bug report to Apple, I hope they fix it soon.

Did anyone successfully try reinstallation of the iPhone from scratch (without restoring the Backup)? I don't want to try this if it won't help ...

If this helps convince you that scratch doesn't help, here is what I can share.

When I got my iPhone 6 plus, I never restored from a backup I setup the phone as a new phone. I have updated to 8.1 and have had double notifications for mail from day one. I have played with all the notifications and sounds as well as disabled vibrations. I have had success with it going away but only temporarily, it has always come back. Based on my fresh out of the box setup having the echo I can't imagine restoring from scratch would make any difference.