IPhone 5 Glitch - Text Messages and E-mails

Question

So basically when I have any application open that uses sound, such as a game for example, if I turn down the volume within the application, when I exit the application the volume of my text messages and e-mails are set to the same level as whatever I set the volume to in the application that I was just using previously.
For example, if I go into Temple Run and turn the volume almost all the way down to the lowest setting, when I am done playing the game if I receive a text message or e-mail I can barely hear the alert because the volume of those alerts will be set to the low volume from when I was playing Temple Run. I have to go back into Temple Run and turn the game volume all the way back up again to get text message an e-mail alert volumes back to normal.
I thought maybe this was an issue with the new iOS 6, but I had a few friends test it on their 4 and 4s iPhones and they did not experience this glitch. So I think maybe it's only a glitch on the iPhone 5. Can someone with an iPhone 5 check to see if it happens to you too? If not, maybe I just got a defective phone.
Thanks,
Jesse

Answer 1

I just updated my iPhone 4S to IOS 6 and I am now having the same problem. I play The Sims Freeplay, but keep that volume set at 2 or 3 bars, sometimes even on mute. When I left the game, my text tone was barely audible. I messed around with the volume settings for a while, but I couldn't get it louder. Then I finally went back into The Sims Freeplay, turned the volume up to about halfway, and then exited. What do you know? My text tone is now about as loud as it used to be. I went back and turned the game volume back down again to check, and that seems to be what it is basing the text tone volume off of. It is a bit ridiculous. I am really hoping that Apple fixes that bug very quickly, because I should not have to leave my games on blasting loud in order to hear my text messages or emails. Other people have been complaining about the low text tone (or none at all) on other forums, but yours is the only place I'd seen someone else discover the game volume as the way to fix it.