MacOS – limit the notification noise to one device when I get a message

It's less a bug than getting the people to send you an iMessage to your email and not your phone number.

The database actually has two accounts for you and since they are not merged / unified on the server end, you will end up with two accounts / two endpoints and messages to one are not combined with messages to the other.

iMessage in iOS6 does a much better job of unifying several emails and phone numbers, but in 5.0.1 there is no unity. I still like to have one address for my "caller ID" so that contacts tend to reply to my preferred account.

I'm afraid that's not possible in the current iOS.

But there are a few work-arounds:

• You can define a specific vibrating tone for that specific contact person which will do almost nothing (unlike the default long and hard vibrating)
• or you can disable vibrating when you enter Silent Mode and when you start having this rapid-fire conversation, just switch your iPhone to silent mode and no vibrating will happen!