Silence notifications when playing music?

[Nermal]

Is there any automatic way to silence notifications when listening to music? It's a bit jarring when I'm listening to music and an email comes in; the volume decreases, the notification tone plays, and then the music returns to its usual volume. This is also frustrating when I have the phone connected to the TV for watching videos.

If I use the mute switch then the volume doesn't change, the notification tone doesn't play, and the phone simply vibrates. That's almost perfect. The problem is that I often forget to unmute the phone afterwards and then I tend to miss messages.

Is there any way to "auto-mute" the phone when it's playing music or video, then return to normal afterwards?

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1

 

[chickenwingfly]

If I use the mute switch then the volume doesn't change, the notification tone doesn't play, and the phone simply vibrates. That's almost perfect. The problem is that I often forget to unmute the phone afterwards and then I tend to miss messages.

That's the way I do it.
The thing is, why would you miss messages, if they can show up on the lockscreen? (even with the text hidden)? Or did you disable messages on lockscreen?

I believe it's an "all or nothing" thing. I haven't heard of any Cydia tweaks for it neither.

 

[Nermal]

That's the way I do it.
The thing is, why would you miss messages, if they can show up on the lockscreen? (even with the text hidden)? Or did you disable messages on lockscreen?

I believe it's an "all or nothing" thing. I haven't heard of any Cydia tweaks for it neither.

I miss messages because at work I'm often at my desk but not facing it (talking to customers, etc). I'm not sure why I miss the vibration, but I often do!

 

[AmazingGraceTx]

What about Do Not Disturb? Would that help, maybe? Or maybe airplane mode?

 

[Nermal]

Can you enable Do Not Disturb automatically when playing music?

Aeroplane Mode will be even worse; I won't get the messages, calls, etc. at all, rather than just not seeing them come in. I need something that can be disabled automatically because when I have a customer or phone call I'll pause the music but won't unmute the phone because I'm expecting to return to it. But that doesn't always happen.

 

[chickenwingfly]

Can you enable Do Not Disturb automatically when playing music?

I don't think so.

I think you might be SoL then, unless some tweak comes that does it (and you are jailbroken) or... maybe it could be available on iOS 7.

 

[eyoungren]

NotiQuiet maybe?

 

[Nermal]

Well, it doesn't look like this is possible

NotiQuiet requires a jailbreak and it seems that there is no "official" way to do this.

 

[Tyler23]

Well, it doesn't look like this is possible

NotiQuiet requires a jailbreak and it seems that there is no "official" way to do this.

Correct, no official way to do this, unfortunately.