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alttag on Oct 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Speaker (Or: why the iPhone's speaker is on th...

I swear mine does it too.

I suspect it mutes alerts after a period of inactivity (but it could be something sneaky like a combination of the photosensor and accelerometer reporting dark and no movement).

X-Istence on Oct 13, 2011 [–]

It doesn't do this with alerts from apps on the iPad for example... those still go off, so I am not sure.

Although I may have become so used to the sound that I can tune it out ...

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