Hi there, just to throw in my little bit of chatter in this thread cause it would be very unlike me not to have something to say hahaha. When you ajust the volume of your ringing sound there should be an option beside this to switch on or off. This is like a check box and it says when its activated that the volume of your ringer and alerts will not be affected by the volume buttons. Now, in theory this means that if the phone is in your pocket which is allowed, you should not disturb the volume of your ring tone if you hit off the volume buttons on the phone. However, if I use the volume buttons to turn down voiceover if I am in a room with other people to read messages or something it does affect the volume of my alerts say for texting or push notifications and such like. I do find this a little annoying but its something I will have to get use to. Now, I am using an iPhone 4 so maybe the 3gs is slightly different I don't know. Cheers, Nicky. Nicholas Kealy Strategic Affairs National Employment Rights Authority O'Brien Road Carlow Tel: 059 - 9178947 ---------------------------------------------------------- Email Disclaimer: http://www.deti.ie/corporate/it/e-mail_disclaimer_text.htm? ---------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================== The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message. To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org