How to Receive Unique Alerts for VIP Emails on iPhone and iPad

Thursday November 29, 2018 2:06 AM PST by Tim Hardwick
If you use the VIP feature in the iOS Mail app then you'll already know how they can help you keep track of important messages from your key contacts amid the daily torrent of incoming emails.

Keeping on top of VIP emails can be made even easier by ensuring you receive a specific sound or vibration alert whenever one comes through on your iPhone or iPad. That way you'll know if a new message justifies your immediate attention before you've even looked at your iOS device. Here's how to set them up.

  1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Tap Mail in the list.

  3. Tap Notifications.
  4. Tap VIP.
  5. Tap Sounds.

  6. Choose a unique sound from the list or tap Vibration to select a special vibration. The default sound alert is Ding (Classic), so be sure to choose something different.
With that done, the next time you receive an email from one of your VIPs, you'll get the unique notification alert and immediately know it's an important message.

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chino-rican
16 months ago
This assumes the following is activated: Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Fetch New Data > Push > ON; Change the desired email account to Fetch.

Otherwise, you will only get the alert if you open the Mail app and download new emails.
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johnnyturbouk
16 months ago
This is all very well but I tend to have my phone on silent a lot, as I work with patients. What would be an elegant and really useful feature would be if apple adopted a filter system like sanebox. Using smart machine learning to recognise the difference btwn random crap from group-on and amazon reporting offers, to say receipts. I currently have my gmail as my professional email account, me.com for family and yahoo for signing up with companies that I know willl then spam my email.
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