Learn how to turn off repeat alerts for Message notifications to stop your iPhone and iPad from notifying you twice for the same text.
When you receive an iMessage or a text notification on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that you are unable to check at the moment, your natural course of action is probably to ignore it. No big deal — you’ll check it later.
Unfortunately, Apple has set alerts to repeat at two-minute intervals by default on iOS devices.
As such, just a few minutes later, your device lights up, vibrates, or rings again to remind you of the same message notification a second time. The reason for this is that Apple sets notifications and alerts to repeat once by default on iOS devices. To me, this was incredibly annoying. Fortunately, there is an easy solution to disable this feature.
Turn off double message alerts on iPhone
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone and tap Notifications.
- Scroll down through the list of apps and tap Messages.
- Tap Customize Notifications.
- Tap Repeat Alerts.
- Finally, choose Never to disable double notifications.
This will prevent your iPhone from beeping twice when you get a message.
If you want, you can configure alerts to repeat once, twice, 3 times, 5 times, or 10 times at two-minute intervals from the same menu.
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