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Okay, Dustin. I have one for you to investigate next.

Does iOS watch your use patterns for the phone and mute alerts when it thinks you're asleep? It could be just me, but I know I'm not the only one with a Pavlovian response when I hear the mail dinger. And the phone is abnormally quiet until just around the time I normally get up, then I hear the morning mail ding in.

Am I nuts? Wife says I am.

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).

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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