Silently, I Turn

[billroper]

For some unknown reason, my phone stopped making a sound when text messages would come in. It would vibrate, but there was no sound. I spent an interminable amount of time looking at the notifications settings for the Messages application with absolutely no luck. Everything indicated that I should be hearing an alert, but it wasn't happening.

I finally found the problem. Apparently, the *volume* for notifications had been set to zero on an entirely different screen that controls the volume level for various types of rings.

You'd think that there might be a link between the "turn on sound for notifications screen" and the "set the volume for notifications screen". But you would be very, very wrong.

I love good UI design.

Excuse me, I would love to be the beneficiary of some good UI design...

(This is not the time to try to convince me to switch to an iPhone. Really.)

Comments

[sraun]

I had a similar complaint about sounds in Windows many years ago. Every single program that produced sounds had its own controls, there was no master registry. So how do you figure out which program just made a noise? My solution was, and continues to be, to set the system volume to zero and not hear any sounds.

I suppose I should go search to see if the UI there has gotten any better in the last ... 20+ years.

[quadriviummuse]

iPhones do those irritating things too—definitely not going to try to convince you to change. :-)