Text Messaging and calendar Alerts are silent. Don t how to turn them back on. iPhone

If all of your settings are correct in your sounds settings menu, try hard resetting your phone.  Hold down the home button and the sleep/wake button until the apple logo appears (15-20 seconds, probably) then when it boots back up it should play your alerts!  Hopefully this helps!

Thank you so much!  It worked.  I have so much to learn about my new phone.

Yay!!!  A lot of times when those weird little quirks happen, go with a hard reset.   Glad it worked for you!

I dont' believe it every text since the test text has been silent again.  I did another "hard reset" and this time it didn't clear the problem.  Thought maybe my test text from the computer might be the only text that gets a sound, but nope.  Again I'm running silent with only vibration.

Do you have the mute switch engaged? It's the little slider over the volume buttons on the side. If you can see orange, it's engaged. Slide it the other way.