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

I Am using a tone from iTunes for my email sound. Same tone for all accounts incl. VIP.

All accounts are set to badges, sounds, banner, show in Notification Center is on 5, notification is on.

I also tried this with a tone that was pre installed as part of iOS8 and it worked. I received 33 emails this morning and all came through normal!

thanks for the update! i am still getting the double "ding" when the phone is locked and then again when i unlock the phone. i have changed the settings in both the sounds and notifications areas but no luck. i tried turning sound off in the sounds email setting and keeping it on in the notifications are and then vice versa. i am hopeless..

I'm cautiously optimistic that it's working better for me now. The first thing that was wrong was that I had my "Sent" folder checked in the Exchange "Fetch messages" screen, so I would get two vibes when I sent a test message (one for the new message in the inbox, and one for the sent message). This was confusing my results last night and seems to be better now that I've unchecked "Sent". I don't recall checking it, so I wonder if it was a quirk of the iOS update.

The other thing that I did was to turn on an audible alert (just the classic "ding"), let a few messages come through (all with a single vibe + audible alert), and then switch the audible alert back to "none". I think I'm only getting a single vibe for each message now, but will continue to monitor.

Rob

EDIT: Ugh. Just got a double-vibe with the last message. Nevermind.

Pah, I spoke too soon!! Back to normal double sound now - sigh!! Oh well, won't be long before 8.1.2 I guess!!

dont get your hopes up. this is a total joke.

I'm using Push notification for my Exchange account and I'm seeing that the "Sent" folder is *always* checked and I can't uncheck it. This was causing the double-vibes when I was sending myself test messages earlier and I wonder if there's correlation with other messages, too.

The "Sent" folder issue is described midway down the page here: Exchange email not working with IOS 8.

This happens on my iPhone 6 as well. Happy to know I'm not crazy.

Glad to see Apple is focusing on killing the jailbreak instead of fixing problems that affect a large portion of its user base. Poor customer support in my opinion.

I just got a tripple sound for a single email. So I guess it gets even more annoying!

At first I though the problem might be limited to my Gmail account, but it happens for my iCloud account as well. It also doesn't matter whether it's a single email or a couple of them arriving on my phone at the same time. If this goes on I might fully disable notifications for new email, this is just ridiculous!

A user in the thread linked below is saying that the 8.2 beta resolved the issue for him:

[Unsolved] iOS 8 Exchange Emails read on other devices do not clear out from Lock Screen

Really appreciate the heads up. I'm seeing the other issue too (emails don't clear from lock screen), but considered the double/triple vibe to be more annoying and was trying to deal with it first.

Yup, that was me. The double buzz for new email was driving me nuts as well, but it seems to be fixed in the 8.2 beta. I'm swearing at my phone much less often now 🙂

The double email sound came back a few days after updating to 8.1.1. I even got double sounds when my phone was unlocked.

I spend a lot of time on the phone with Apple Care Plus. They had me restore the phone, reset all settings, reset network settings, but nothing helped. I received a replacement phone last week. Restored it and have the same issues as before. So I believe it has definitely something to do with software, not hardware.

I will call Apple care tomorrow to report and I already send another feedback message as well.

This really needs to be fixed!!!!

It's fixed in the 8.2 beta.

I finally got sick of the double and triple vibes and signed up for the dev program to get access to the 8.2 beta. It does appear to solve the multiple vibes (thanks for the heads up, joeuser54!), and it's made the stale read messages on the lock screen issue better. I still can't uncheck the "Sent" folder from the Push options for my Exchange account (it just re-enables as soon as I leave and re-enter the screen), but I haven't gotten a multi-vibe yet.

The lock screen issue is interesting in that the already-read messages stay in the list until I get another email pushed to the device. It doesn't seem like the "read" notifications are being pushed or acted on by themselves, but are triggered along with new message notifications. JoeUser54 mentions this behavior in the other thread, but I could swear that in iOS7 I could watch messages disappear from the lockscreen automatically soon after reading them on another device. In any case, it's better than it was in 8.1.1.

Rob