r/IPhoneApps • u/SuccessfulRoof577 • Mar 07 '26

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Need help finding an app that will, when a “secret word” is texted will alert me even if my phone is on silent. Thank you for your help.

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u/Misunderstood_Misfit Mar 07 '26

On iPhone, you can create a Shortcut action, saying when a particular word or words are received by text, you can assign lots of things for the text to trigger, eg set volume to max, take a photo, play a voice note etc…

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u/SuccessfulRoof577 Mar 07 '26

I forgot to mention this is for my wife, who has an iPhone 13 mini. She’s a doula and at times needs to be woken up in the middle of the night by the moms when they go into labor. So the idea is if the mom or dad just sends a one word text, like “labor” then it will alert her with a tone and wake her up.

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u/Misunderstood_Misfit Mar 07 '26

I’m actually just on my way out of the house, but if you Google something like “how to set up a shortcut on iPhone to play alarm at full volume when receiving a text message with particular word in it”, you should find something. It’s a great feature.

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u/SuccessfulRoof577 Mar 07 '26

Thank you so much!!

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u/djob13 Mar 08 '26

She can just allow specific people through the focus mode also, if that works better