Be A lert – Your country needs Lerts


In enhancing a Helpdesk application I wanted to expand the notification capabilities to include SMS from the application on the generation of new calls. More about the specifics of that in another post but one thing I wanted was to be able to differentiate when calls from a specific mobile came in on the iphone so……

Set Custom Text Tones Per Contact

SMS alert sounds can also be customized on a per person basis:

  • Tap on “Phone” and then the “Contacts” tab on the bottom
  • Locate the contact to set a custom SMS tone for and tap on their name
  • Tap on “Edit” and tap on “Text Tone”
  • Just as above, tap on a new text tone to set it as the default for the selected contact