Daily Tip: How to turn on (or off) multiple text message alerts

Worried you might miss an urgent SMS message and wondering how to set up multiple alerts? Annoyed at the amount of notifications you're getting for texts and trying to figure out how to dial them back a notch or three? No problem, you can do both easily on iPhone and we'll show you how after the break!

If you want to increase or decrease the amount of pop up and sound/vibrate alerts your iPhone gives you for each text, here's what to do:

  1. Launch the Settings app
  2. Scroll down to Messages and tap it

  1. Tap on Play Alert Tone

  1. Set the number of alerts you want, from once (1) to 10 times.
  1. That's it!

Once, as the name implies, goes off once and never again. From Twice to 10 Times, alerts go off at 2 minute intervals.

Have any other handy SMS tips? Any special way you like to set up your texts? Let us know in the comments!

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Rene Ritchie
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Rene Ritchie is one of the most respected Apple analysts in the business, reaching a combined audience of over 40 million readers a month. His YouTube channel, Vector, has over 90 thousand subscribers and 14 million views and his podcasts, including Debug, have been downloaded over 20 million times. He also regularly co-hosts MacBreak Weekly for the TWiT network and co-hosted CES Live! and Talk Mobile. Based in Montreal, Rene is a former director of product marketing, web developer, and graphic designer. He's authored several books and appeared on numerous television and radio segments to discuss Apple and the technology industry. When not working, he likes to cook, grapple, and spend time with his friends and family.