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Mutator silences your iPhone, no exceptions

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Re: Mutator silences your iPhone, no exceptions

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My 3GS has a broken Ring/Silent switch that is permanently on 'ring'. I've been trying for a year to find a reliable way to make it shut up -- I'm a 'silent always' kind of guy, and that switch failure made me hate my phone. This looks like a pretty great solution!

Can you set ringtones on the iphone? If so can't you just record nothing and set that as the text acknowledgement tone?

You can set most, but not all, of the sounds to 'None'. There still seem to be a bunch of sounds that you can't control. And manually configuring the whole phone to be silent is quite time consuming, especially since you have to may have to do it for individual apps, which may or may not even support it.

Re: Mutator silences your iPhone, no exceptions

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Wait, there's a problem with the mute function? Excepting alarms (from Clock.app), my iPhone is silent when it's switched to mute. I'm guessing people have a bunch of third party apps installed that don't respect the mute button?

Videos, Games, Siri can/do make noise when "ring/silent" switch is engaged. I usually don't have a problem but sometimes Siri launches when I don't expect her to - quit an app... wait... pling-pling-pling!

Yes that's how silence works on iOS. Mute mutes thing you have no control over calls,texts etc. why the hell would I fire up a video and not want the sound?
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