Finally, the Do Not Disturb mode has been updated. It is nowhere near as advanced as on Android, but it still got a little better. There are more options. Now you can activate the mode for just an hour or for a specific meeting.
In addition, the iPhone behaves differently when the mode is active. The lock screen turns black and all notifications disappear. The screen does not light up even when a new notification arrives.
Options in Control Center
How do I open the new Do Not Disturb options? From the Control Center. With Control Center open, press the crescent mode icon with or simply hold it down longer than usual.
You will see additional options: you can turn on the mode for an hour, until tonight (or the end of the event), as well as until you leave your current location.
The most convenient option is for 1 hour. Thus, you can easily and quickly mute your smartphone for a while and not worry about forgetting to turn off the mode.
Do not disturb at night
In the section Do not disturb in Settings a new item has appeared. When you click on the switch next to Planned, you will see an additional option - Go to sleep.
Turn on the option and your smartphone will not bother you while you sleep. The screen will go dark and you will see a message stating that Do Not Disturb is active, and notifications will appear silently in the Action Center. You won't hear any sounds, and the screen won't light up with every new notification.
There is also a little trick to activate the weather widget on the lock screen. It is only available with the Sleep feature.
Do Not Disturb on steroids - rest mode
Go to Settings -> Screen time -> At rest and set up a schedule. Make it the same as for Do Not Disturb.
Once Do Not Disturb mode is activated, you will not be able to use most applications on your iPhone. Everything from Instagram to Facebook will be blocked until you wake up. Alternatively, you can simply turn off the "At rest" function in urgent need.
This is a great start for improving Do Not Disturb. Hopefully iOS 13 will bring even more useful options. It would be nice to be able to block only some of the notifications. In addition, the mode could be integrated with the Shortcuts function.
With Do Not Disturb Mode, you can turn off sound, vibration, and visual alerts on your Android device. You can choose which alerts to block and which to allow.
How to turn alerts on and off
To enable or disable Do Not Disturb mode, swipe down from the top of the screen and tap.
How to change alert settings
By default, do not disturb mode is disabled almost all sound alerts and vibration. You can customize the settings for different types of alerts such as alarms, notifications, calls and messages.
Important notifications will be shown with any setting, such as security notifications.
How to set up automatic disabling of alerts
You can create a rule to automatically turn on Do Not Disturb at a specific time.
You can create a rule to automatically turn on Do Not Disturb during certain events added to your Google Calendar.
To remove a rule, click the icon.
Instructions for Android 8.1 and earlier
Option 1. Complete silence
To turn off absolutely all sounds and vibration of the phone, select the "Complete silence" mode.
Option 2. Alarm only
For a quiet rest without fear of oversleeping work, turn on the "Alarm only" mode. In this mode, you can listen to music, watch videos, play games, and play other media files.
Option 3. Only important
Select this mode if you want to receive only the most important notifications. In this mode, you can listen to music, watch videos, play games, and play other media files.
Option 1. Turn off sounds at certain times
You can set your device to mute automatically at certain times, such as at night.
Option 2. Muting sounds during events and meetings
You can set your phone so that the sound is muted automatically during all appointments in your calendar.
Option 3. Disable visual alerts
To prevent disabled notifications from showing on the screen:
The standard incoming filtering settings do not protect against unwanted calls. How to Use Do Not Disturb Mode on iPhone and Configure Settings Correctly?
No sound vs Do not disturb
To enable silent mode on iPhones, a special button is provided. It allows you to mute the notification signal. But "Silent" is not always effective, because you can miss and miss important calls or messages.
The best way to deny incoming calls during a busy period is the Do Not Disturb mode, which can be customized to suit the individual's needs.
The advantage of using Do Not Disturb Mode is that it allows you to receive calls from important contacts and family members while blocking everyone else.
Another plus is that it turns off the smartphone and prevents it from turning on when a call or notification comes in. When we just put the iPhone on silent, then all calls and notifications are displayed on the screen and distract us.
How to turn on Do Not Disturb mode on iPhone
The default setting allows your favorite contacts to reach you and allows calls from people who call within 3 minutes of the first call.
To do this, you need to do a few steps:
Settings - Do not disturb - Manual (turn on the toggle switch)
A crescent icon next to the battery percentage indicates that the mode is on.
IMPORTANT! To quickly turn on and off the function, you need to call the Control Center shutter and tap on the crescent.
What does each setting mean and how can you customize them to suit your individual needs?
Disable repeated calls
If option "Repeated calls" enabled, this allows everyone to break through the inbound ban. After making a repeated call within 3 minutes after the first one, even if you have enabled “Do not disturb” mode on your iphone, the subscriber will still be able to get through.
If you do not want to be disturbed by trifles, just turn off the toggle switch.
Call admission
The default setting is to allow your favorite contacts to dial you. All other calls from other subscribers will be automatically rejected.
- from all of us - allows you to call all contacts;
- from no one - blocks all incoming messages from absolutely everyone;
- from the elite - allows you to make calls to "favorite contacts";
- from groups - you yourself create certain groups (Family, Friends, Work, etc.). They will be allowed to call you even when Do Not Disturb Mode is on.
You can select a contact group like this:
Settings - Do not disturb - Call admission - From groups (select the desired group)
Scheduled time
Apple has taken care of users by adding an automatic transition to Do Not Disturb at a scheduled time. Let's say you don't want to be disturbed at night. Thanks to the individually set parameters, the phone will automatically go into Do Not Disturb mode on the iphone.
The smartphone allows you to set one continuous time period, but does not allow you to select different or several.
Silence!
The Do Not Disturb Mode setting prevents your phone from emitting audible alerts when it is locked and allows it when it is unlocked.
But this parameter can cause some discomfort when using. If you are at an important event or meeting and decide to check your phone, then at that very moment the smartphone may ring loudly.
In order to change this, you need to follow these steps:
Settings - Do not disturb - Silence - Always
Now your iPhone will not ring or beep when Do Not Disturb is on, no matter if it is locked or unlocked.
Do not disturb mode for iPhone is a very useful function that not every owner of an "apple" device knows about. It is designed to completely turn off the sound during calls, receive notifications when the device is locked. This mode on the iPhone 5 and other smartphones from Apple allows the owner of the gadget to choose at what time and from which subscribers he wants to receive calls.
If you still do not know what the crescent moon on the iPhone means, we inform you that this sign indicates that the do not disturb function is active. By the way, in other smartphones such an icon indicates the sleep mode of the device.
There are two ways to enable or disable this feature:
- You need to go to the settings section and select the "Do not disturb" item.
- Select the section "Manual" in the settings, then the mode will turn on instantly, or set up the schedule.
How do I change the mode settings?
If the owner of a smartphone from Apple wants that calls and notifications, accompanied by sound signals, do not disturb him at any particular time of the day, you need to attend to setting up the schedule. How to do it?
To set up a schedule in an iPhone, you need to do the following steps:
- Enter the settings.
- Select "Do not disturb".
- Include a "Planned" section.
- Choose the time you want.
In addition, in wonderful devices from Apple, the choice of the option for the user to receive a warning, call or notification is provided:
1 Option "call admission", thanks to which the user can select calls from all subscribers or from some of them (favorites). In this case, contacts can be from iCloud or from the phone memory. 2 Parameter of repeated calls. If you select it, if someone calls the user twice or more in the last 3 minutes, the call will go with sound so that the iPhone owner does not miss an important call. 3 A parameter, the activation of which assumes absolute silence and silence of the device during any calls and always (or only when the device is locked).
What Happens to iPhone in Do Not Disturb Mode
Many users of "apple" devices are interested in the question of what a subscriber sees and hears trying to call someone, if the latter has such a mode enabled on the device. And second, what the user who is being called will see. Will he be able to understand by certain signs that someone is trying to call him or send a message. Next, we will open the veil of secrecy and answer these questions.
A user who makes a call to a subscriber with the "Do not disturb" mode in operation will constantly hear beeps in the receiver indicating that the number is busy. For those who do not want to receive calls at the moment, the display during a call will not signal in any way that a call is in progress. The screen will not light up and no other characters appear, the display will be dark. But when the user activates the screen, a message will pop up on it stating that a call or SMS was missed. In other words, all incoming calls and SMS will be reflected and saved in history. But their arrival on the device will not be indicated in any way, and this is especially true for sound notifications.
Sometimes the owner of an Apple gadget needs to block calls from any subscriber. This can be done by adding this person to the so-called "black list". This option is present in the smartphone settings. But it should be said that a blocked subscriber can easily check the availability of the number by calling it from another phone.
How to block incoming calls on iPhone
The blacklist function was already present on the seventh version of iOS, and then it was retained on later versions - the eighth, etc. Since then, any iPhone user can send an annoying subscriber to this list, and this procedure is very easy. I must say, many Apple fans were happy with this feature. But today it is being successfully implemented not only in smartphones, but also in ordinary mobile phones. When you add a contact you no longer need to the blacklist, calls from him will no longer be received.
To blacklist a specific subscriber from your contacts on an Apple smartphone, do the following:
- Go to the phone menu, then to recent tabs or to the section with contacts.
- Click on the desired contact to open information about it.
- Go down the window and activate the function of blocking this subscriber. The contact will be added to the blacklist and you will no longer receive calls from it.
If you later want to unblock one or more subscribers on the blacklist, go to the settings menu of your smartphone, select the phone section and the blocked tab. Here you can unblock contacts in an intuitive way.
Through the help menu, the user can also delete a contact from the list of blocked contacts, as well as add new contacts to the black list directly from the address book.
In face time, blocked subscribers can be seen in the settings section of the same name.
If you are blocked ...
When you call an iPhone, on which the user's number has been blacklisted, he will first hear a very long beep, which will abruptly cut off, and then a series of short beeps will follow. These sounds simulate a busy room. Absolutely nothing will be displayed on the device being called.
But, having heard such a combination of sounds, having called someone on a smartphone, you should not immediately think that you have been blocked. To find out why, send a message to a friend in iMessage. Who does not know - this is a specialized service from the Apple company for exchanging messages between users of Apple gadgets. And if, when sending a test SMS, it is not delivered, about which the system will notify you, this is a clear sign that you have been blocked.
How to hide your number
If you want to hide your number when calling another subscriber, use a special function on your phone. This feature is often provided by the device manufacturer, but sometimes it can only be obtained from the carrier, and this service is paid, although its cost is usually low.
To hide your number from other subscribers to whom you make calls, turn off the number display toggle switch in the phone settings. If in this section you find that the slider is not displayed, then you will have to contact the communication company for the service.
