Open Tinny(not) and allow notifications when iOS asks. Chimes are delivered as local notifications, so without that permission nothing can sound.
If you declined earlier, the app now says so under the switch and offers a direct link. You can also go to Settings › Notifications › Tinny(not) and turn Allow Notifications back on.
Four things silence a notification, in the order worth checking:
Tinny(not) follows your system sound settings on purpose. It never overrides silent mode or Focus. For the full walkthrough, see our iPhone hourly chime not working guide.
The sound list is always on the main screen, under Sound. Tap any name to select it and hear it play once. There are 14 built-in sounds plus the speaking clock.
Yes. Set the interval to 15 or 30 minutes and a row of marks appears: :00, :15, :30, :45. Pick a mark, then pick a sound for it. Each mark keeps its own sound, so you can tell the quarter without looking at the screen.
Yes. Choose No sound for that mark and it schedules nothing at all, not a silent banner. The :00 mark always keeps a sound, otherwise an hourly schedule would be empty.
Instead of a chime, the app speaks the time aloud. It uses any speech voice installed on your iPhone, in your language and time format, and you pick which one from the Voice menu. Speech is generated on your device; nothing is sent anywhere.
Yes. Type your text in Custom Notification Text and it becomes the body of the notification, so it appears on the lock screen with any sound.
For it to be spoken aloud, the mark has to use the speaking clock. With any other sound selected the text is shown but not read out.
Yes, up to 3 of your own recordings. Supported formats are .wav, .caf and .aiff, each up to 30 seconds. That limit comes from iOS: longer files are not played as notification sounds.
iOS allows any app at most 64 pending notification requests at a time (Apple's UserNotifications documentation). A wide schedule asks for more than that, so the finest marks are the first to go.
Narrow the hours, the days or the interval and they come back. Opening the app also refreshes the schedule.
Free: hourly chimes, every day, with 5 of the built-in sounds.
The one-time purchase adds all 14 built-in sounds, the speaking clock with voice choice, custom notification text, intervals of 15 and 30 minutes with a separate sound per mark, weekday or weekend filtering, and importing your own audio. No subscription, no ads, nothing recurring.
Open the upgrade screen in the app and use Restore Purchases, signed in with the same Apple Account that bought it. Purchases are handled entirely by Apple; for billing questions contact Apple Support rather than us, since we never see the transaction.
Yes. Chimes are scheduled with the system and fire from the lock screen with the app closed. You do not need to keep Tinny(not) open or running in the background.
Yes. In Settings › Notifications › Tinny(not) turn off Lock Screen, Notification Centre and Banners, and leave Sounds on. The app shows this tip on its main screen with a direct link.
Six: English, German, Italian, Japanese, Turkish and Arabic. The spoken time follows your device language and 12 or 24 hour format.
None. No analytics, no accounts, no advertising SDKs, no network requests of any kind. Details are in the privacy policy.
If none of the above answers it, write to us. One person reads this mailbox, so please include your iPhone model, your iOS version, and what you expected to happen.
Email: support@tinnynot.com
App Store: Tinny(not) on the App Store
Purchases and refunds: every transaction is handled by Apple, and we never see payment details or purchase history. For billing, refunds or subscription questions, contact Apple Support directly. For anything about how the app behaves, write to us.