Override iOS mute/silence switch

[dawks]

I have several corporate phones that need to play a sound to alert the owners regardless of the phones setting, when an email is received from a particular sender. Is there anyway (app or setting) to make this happen?


Put another way, can I configure an iPhone to play a loud sound (no matter what) when and email is sent to that users inbox? Or is there some other way to make it happen?

Also, does anyone have knowledge of how to achieve this via Android?

 

[RampantAndroid]

AFAIK, you cannot override the silence switch on iOS; you can change how it vibrates per contact, but that's it.

 

[dawks]

Thats what I understand.. Apps arent able to by-pass the switch are they? I'd assume they'd likely need to be open to IF they could.. not ideal either.

We are able to do it on Blackberry.

 

[Ichinisan]

So, even if the employee did the right thing in the movie theater by flipping the switch, you'd embarrass them anyway if you could. Way to go.

Apple's Find my iPhone (accessible through iCloud.com) can play an alert regardless of the switch position.

 

[dawks]

So, even if the employee did the right thing in the movie theater by flipping the switch, you'd embarrass them anyway if you could. Way to go.

Apple's Find my iPhone (accessible through iCloud.com) can play an alert regardless of the switch position.

This is for notification of emergency. In the extremely rare case it would actually happen, a few people disturbed in a movie theater would be the LEAST of our worries. The last time it happened, it cost our plant site 10's of millions of dollars.

Anyone else with any constructive feedback?

 

[Megatomic]

Go old school and issue a pager?

 

[midwestfisherman]

Go old school and issue a pager?

That's what our company does. We who are oncall get both an iPhone and a pager. We're very careful as to what goes to our pagers, that way we can leave them on without being bothered constantly for frivolous pages.

 

[Ichinisan]

Perhaps you can just lock the phone remotely through iCloud Find my iPhone and play a notification sound with a message: "Unlock with XXXX and call XXX-XXX-XXXX immediately."

That definitely overrides the silent switch.