iPhone - Is it possible to override silent mode or have a recursive alert sound with push notification? [closed]

Answer 1

Apple tends not to permit activities that could be so easily used to abuse the user. If I enable silent mode, there's a reason.

Answer 2

I'll give a tip on how I solved this problem, which may be a little different.

I was building an app where I wanted the user to be able to preview an MP3 clip, even if they had the phone on silent.

The way I went about this was first, importing the Audiobox framework <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h> at the start of your file and then later in my code before I initialized my AVAudioPlayer I did:

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance]
                setCategory: AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback
                      error: nil];

Worked like a charm. It may not be what the OP needed, however.

Answer 3

Overriding the OS sound settings in this manner, even if it were possible, would surely result in rejection during the review stages (if the reviewer caught this behaviour).

Think about what you're doing, and ask yourself if you think your user would appreciate this "feature". To me, the answer is clearly no.