How to turn the text tone on on an iPhone 5s?

The mute switch thing on the side is set to on, the ringer and alerts sounds are set to full, there's something selected for the type of sound, and the iPhone is still not making sound. I tried holding the power and home buttons until the apple logo appears and it still does not work.

You need to dig around in Settings - Sounds until you find the list of things that potentially would MAKE a sound - and make sure that you have chosen a sound for Messages. Not enough to just have the Alerts sound on - it will *ding* or whatever when you get OTHER things you assigned to Alerts - like Weather, etc. - but you must choose WHAT is going to make WHAT sound - and then assign it to Alerts. Easier to show you how, than tell you how.

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