An answer: Do you miss your texts when on duty?

I use my iPhone for a pager and when I am in the garage and other places making noise, I often miss the notification. Note the pager is a text message, that just rings, then goes away. It is not a phone call that someone knows is unanswered. I am expected to take each pager call and expected to hear it. So a problem for me as I have to put my life on hold when on pager duty for fear of missing the notification. 
BUT, it turns out, if you plug your iPhone into an external speaker [through the headphone plug, not the docking station connector], the ring tone is amplified! OK so maybe you all knew this, but I did not. So for example, on my push bike was always a time I missed the text tone. Even though I had it maxed out on loudness, and with vibration on, I could not hear it above the wind rushing through my helmet. Nor could I feel it. Incredible the number of pager notifications I missed that way.
Now no problem; I wear one or two earphones, the ear bud type and I can hear the ring tone, stop and take the pager. In my shed, plugged into an external speaker, I have no problem hearing it. Note that I don't play music or stuff through the earphone or speaker, though I guess you could. On my bike I just have the buds in my ears and when the pager goes off, I hear it.
Problem solved for me in a very elegant way; I wish I had discovered this earlier.
I hope my answer to an unasked problem helps at least one of you.

You can also set text alerts to repeat up to 10 times. Settings>Notifications>Messages>Repeat Alert.

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