Comments on: Is there a way to turn off the “new mail” sound on my iPhone? (reader mail)

By: Robert Shull

Robert Shull — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:36:00 +0000

In reply to Ben Patterson. Don't forget to turn off New Mail Sound for the VIP account that is treat like a separate mail account for sound.

By: disqus_qEiBmuWf0s

disqus_qEiBmuWf0s — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:55:00 +0000

HELP…….I have mine set to NONE but still get the ding sound?????????

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:36:00 +0000

In reply to Barbara Barron.

Thanks for the update! Something tells me this is a broken feature, because try as I might, I can’t turn the “new email” sound back on with my iPhone 5, even after repeatedly tweaking the Sound and Notification settings. Stranger still, I can’t turn the new mail sound off on my old iPhone 3GS. Way more confusing than it should be. Will keep investigating…

By: Barbara Barron

Barbara Barron — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:22:00 +0000

Well I finally got rid of that annoying ding, it was an alert from email, I went to notifications and turned all off under mail alert style to none but you have to leave the notification center tab to on.

By: Barbara Barron

Barbara Barron — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:53:00 +0000

I have done everything you suggested and this alert for new email is driving me crazy!

By: Joel Smith

Joel Smith — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:56:00 +0000

In reply to Ben Patterson. Thanks Ben...would not have known that!

By: C Lee Reed

C Lee Reed — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:45:00 +0000

I am finding that since I have my work email and secondary personal Yahoo account hooked up, it turns off the work email but not the other. Any suggestions? The sound is set to NONE.

By: Ben Patterson

Ben Patterson — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:48:00 +0000

In reply to Joey Theis.

Hi Joey! Thanks for the comment—looks like this tip is out of date. To turn off the notification sound for email, you need to tap Settings, Notifications, Mail, then go into each of your various email accounts and change “New Mail Sound” to “None.” Let me know if that doesn’t work for you…cheers!

By: Joey Theis

Joey Theis — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:26:00 +0000

I did this and still get the standard beep when a new email arrives. Very annoying. The only thing I figured out was to set the fetch new data push to manual. Now I need to open my mail before it checks to see if I have anything new. I don’t like this though because I’m forgetful.

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