How to Repeat Missed Text Message Notifications in iOS 9

If you never wanted to miss a notification on your iPhone, then the ideal solution would be to have it near you at all times.

Unfortunately, this is not always practical, and it is likely that you will not be around for every text message that you receive.

If your iPhone is set to only play an alert once for new messages, then you may not realize that you have one until the next time you unlock your device.

But the iPhone can be customized to repeat alerts for new messages up to 10 times, thereby increasing the likelihood that it will notify you of the message’s presence.

Our guide below will show you how to change the setting for repeated text message alerts.

Repeating Missed Text Message Notifications in iOS 9

The steps in this article will adjust the Repeat Alerts setting for your text messages. Each repeated alert instance will occur two minutes after the previous alert, up to a total of 10 times. Once you have read the message that created the alert, the repeated alerts will stop.

Here is how to repeat missed text message alerts in iOS 9 on an iPhone –

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Select the Notifications option.
  3. Scroll down and select the Messages option.
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and select the Repeat Alerts option.
  5. Select the number of times that you want to alert to repeat.

These steps are also shown below with pictures –

Step 1: Tap the Settings icon.

open ios 9 settings

Step 2: Select the Notifications option.

open the notifications menu

Step 3: Scroll down and tap on the Messages option.

open messages notifications

Step 4: Locate the Repeat Alerts setting at the very bottom of the menu and tap it to open the menu.

select repeat alerts

Step 5: Select the option that indicates the number of times that you would like the alert to repeat until you read the message.

how to repeat text message alerts in ios 9

Now that you know how to repeat missed text message notifications in iOS 9, you can increase the likelihood of seeing text messages that you receive on the device.

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