iPhone Alert sounds not working after iOS6 update

[C DM]

no keyboard clicks, no lock noise, no plugged in or charging noise, no phone or text alerts - i was thinking i had clicked something accidently on my iPhone 5, but now i see its a major problem, which has to get fixed asap by

Are sounds for those items enabled on your phone? Are selected sound effects for them correct? The phone is definitely not in some sort of silent/vibrate mode? The phone's volume is up? Have you tried rebooting the phone? Have you tried actually resetting settings or even reinstalling the whole phone (and issue like that would usually leave that as a reasonable option, although one of the last ones)?

It seems like a potential problem of sorts, but by far not widespread or really attributed to anything in particular.

 

[dmeade]

no alerts or message sounds

Here's my fix. It's entirely related to a mismatch in the new iOS with my iPhone extra-battery case. There is a slide-switch on the lowest edge to allow the case battery (PhoneSuit Elite) to act as an addition battery reserve rather than recharge source. Anyway, when the slide switch is in the "up" (slid toward the screen) position, the volume buttons don't work and there are no alert or message sounds. When the slide switch is in the "down" (slid toward the back) position, we have controls and sound.

When the iPhone (4s) is NOT in the case, everything works fine.

Try taking your phone OUT of your case and test it by going to: Settings/Sounds and see if it doesn't work for you.

p.s. - No amount of rebooting has worked for me. And, I'm not ready to do a complete reset and lose data.

 

[MacVirgin2011]

Logged into my macforum account after more than a year as this problem has been crippling my iPhone. Its from the last update no doubt.

I have no sound at all. If I want to listen to music or youtube I have to switch it off and do a reboot.

All I notice is that when I receive a message - be it a text or email - it kills the sound of whatever I'm listening to.

Horrible. Hope IoS 7 fixes this for me.

 

[jeriokelive]

I am having a similar problem.

As stated with other posts... it seems that the notifications and ringtone volumes can be related to the music volumes...

I saw a setting in Settings?General>Sounds called "Change with Buttons" and it was on.

I am currently waiting for my wife to get home so that she doesn't have to text me while on the road to test having that setting off.

No luck. I had to turn off DND or change my schedule for it... as all alerts other than calls do not come through. A text isn't a call... so, yah.

 

[C DM]

I am having a similar problem.

As stated with other posts... it seems that the notifications and ringtone volumes can be related to the music volumes...

I saw a setting in Settings?General>Sounds called "Change with Buttons" and it was on.

I am currently waiting for my wife to get home so that she doesn't have to text me while on the road to test having that setting off.

No luck. I had to turn off DND or change my schedule for it... as all alerts other than calls do not come through. A text isn't a call... so, yah.

That's basically how DND in iOS is set up to work, right?

 

[aperture1]

Solution to sound problem

I found the problem. The iPhone thinks it is sending the sounds through the Dock Connector. Why it is doing this I am not certain, but to fix it I plugged my iPhone into my Mac and the sounds were back immediately. I then ejected it from iTunes and the sounds are working fine. This must have reset the software so it now plays the sounds through the iPhone's speakers instead of the Dock.

I this might have been caused be caused I used the USB port on my car to charge the phone. That might have also caused the iPhone to think it was connected to a Dock and somehow that never got reset when I disconnected the iPhone.

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I found the problem. The iPhone thinks it is sending the sounds through the Dock Connector. Why it is doing this I am not certain, but to fix it I plugged my iPhone into my Mac and the sounds were back immediately. I then ejected it from iTunes and the sounds are working fine. This must have reset the software so it now plays the sounds through the iPhone's speakers instead of the Dock.

I this might have been caused be caused I used the USB port on my car to charge the phone. That might have also caused the iPhone to think it was connected to a Dock and somehow that never got reset when I disconnected the iPhone.