On the iOS platform there doesn’t appear to be a way to customize the sound made for a new message alert. And worse still, it makes a rather generic default iPhone “ding” sound that just disappears among all the other noise my phone constantly makes.

It would be really ideal if that sound can either be changeable by the user, or at least unique enough to be easily recognized (think the tweet sound from the twitter app for example).

A way to achieve this could be by exposing a settings configuration option that allows the user to choose from sounds already on the phone. That “should” only require updating the settings interface on iOS for the app, to allow that sound field to be settable.