How to make phone calls ring loudly, even on silent mode (on iPhone)

Post date: 2020-10-21 06:43:57

I like to keep my phone mostly on vibrate/silent, BUT I need to get a loud notification for phone calls. I keep missing important phone calls if I don't carry my phone with me around the house literally everywhere (which I would strongly prefer to not do). If it's in the next room, I need some kind of audio notification.

Currently I put it on normal ring mode, then manually disable the chimes in each app for SMS/Messenger/etc. But this still leaves other apps, like Camera, where I can't turn off the awful shutter sound. (Apparently if you turn on Live Photos, the shutter sound goes away, but I don't want to default to Live Photos either.)

Do I need a standalone pager? Can I copy this functionality with another iPhone, even if it doesn't have a SIM card in it? Is there some Accessibility setting buried in menus that will allow loud ringtones despite vibrate/silent mode?

iPhone SE (2nd gen) running iOS 13.5.1.

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