[pcryan5]

Is there a way to make the iPhone screen flash when new email arrives?

Being deaf - (obviously) tones do not work - but having the peripheral vision of an owl I do notice light changes.
(vibration is okay if the device is connected to me or on my chair but ...)

thanks all!

~P

[turtle777]

I don't think there is a standard setting.

You'd probably need to find a 3rd party app that checks your IMAP account and then triggers that action.
I don't know of an app that does that.

-t

[ghporter]

I don't know of that sort of app, but it makes all sorts of sense. Like having more distinctive vibration patterns would help a user with some sort of impairment of vision, having a visual indication would help anyone with a hearing impairment. Sounds like something "someone" should work on. Like Apple; their accessibility adaptations may not be everything everyone could need, but they're usually pretty good at trying.

[jb4]

Vibration in IPhone has only one time and there is no choice of how many vibration to alert me that I want. Also, no small flash alert of new emails/text as Blackberry does when leave device on the table/desk where it can be visible. Many times I missed new emails/text messages until much later.

[subego]

Prowl didn't work?

[anthology123]

I find that when my email downloads new email, it will give a quick vibration as well as a beep. Is that good enough?

[kklenz]

I use Pushmail which makes a new email screen pop up on the screen similar to SMS messages. It works well with Mobilme, Yahoo, or Google email addresses.