2 questions about new iphone 4S

donnyb · Sep 23, 2012

I have an iPad2, so am familiar with that part, but have a few questions about my new iPhone4S.
1) Is there a way to assign a unique ring tone to a person in my contacts?
2) How do I get my iPhone to ring or notify my on incoming emails?

BTW, I just bought this 2 days ago and it already upgraded to ios6.

LAlimonda · Sep 23, 2012

Go into the address book, choose the contact you want to assign the unique ringtone to, select edit and scroll down to ringtone.

donnyb · Sep 23, 2012

Hey LAminda, that worked. Thanks.
Anybody know if I can now get an alert when email arrives? It seems to only update when I open the email program.

Silverado8405 · Sep 23, 2012

What email account are you using? That will help determine how to help you set up the email and if you have to set it up uniquely for push email. Push email will forward the email to your phone instead of needing to open the mail app to fetch the email.

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donnyb · Sep 23, 2012

Not sure which email you mean? I have a Gmail account that I use on my desktop computer using Thunderbird and my iPhone uses the standard Apple email client

Silverado8405 · Sep 23, 2012

So you have your gmail set up to come to the default phone app? That's what I'm reading from your post.

If that is correct when you added the gmail account to the phone did you set it up as a gmail account or an exchange account?

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chunky · Sep 24, 2012

Set it to push to get instant new e mails and go into general settings, sound settings to choose your own choice of tone under the NEW MAIL setting.

donnyb · Sep 24, 2012

I set the sound for new email and I set it to push new emails. There is also a setting to "fetch" new emails, but it says that the push will over-ride the fetch. When I set fetch to "every 15 minutes", it seems to work every 15 minutes, but the push does not over-ride the fetch. I either have something else set wrong (I have looked, but without success) or there is a glitch in the new IOS6.

donnyb · Oct 15, 2012

I could never get this to work (notifying me of incoming emails, texts, and even some phone calls). I took my phone to the AT&T store and they said my settings were correct. I got tired of it not working, so I traded the iPhone in for the Galaxy S3 and could not be happier.

DanWindel · Oct 15, 2012

Same here and i'm lovin it. I love the customization and widget capabilities of the android OS more than the Iphone'

MyiBroke · Oct 16, 2012

LAlimonda said:
Go into the address book, choose the contact you want to assign the unique ringtone to, select edit and scroll down to ringtone.

This is what you need. Make sure that you check out some of the How-To-Guides on youtube. It always helps me to get visuals. Remember - Youtube is one of the biggest search engines online right now!