![]() You can basically enable them to text you, enable them to call you and then just remember to turn that off later on. Maybe somebody is arriving on a plane that night and you want to make sure they can call you but you want to have Do Not Disturb turned on for the rest of it. So you do the contacts that are important or maybe just, in one particular case, like during a meeting or one particular night, you want to make sure that somebody can get in touch with you. This is really handy because you can do it per contact. So now their text messages will come through normally even when Do Not Disturb is turned on. That means their phone calls will come through even if I have Do Not Disturb turned on.īetter than that, you can also do the same thing here for their Text Tone. You can see in addition to be able to set a custom ringtone for this person I can also turn on Emergency Bypass. But if you tap on the Ringtone, so there's the Ringtone and the Text Tone. Even if you go to Edit you won't find it. Now you won't find Emergency Bypass anywhere here. ![]() You go into Contacts here and, just like before, you select a contact. But you can also Delete them here as well so you can get rid of Favorites.Īnother way to do this is to use the Emergency Bypass. This is useful anyway just to be able to quickly call them. Then if you go into the phone app, and you tap on Favorites, the little star at the bottom left, you can see all of your Favorites listed. Now the only one that Do Not Disturb cares about is for Calling. Then you select what type of favorite to add. How do you assign a Favorite? Well, the way you do that is you go into Contacts, you select a person, and then at the bottom it says Add toFavorites. So you can set a work group or an emergency contacts group, or something like that, and then just say I want that group to be able to call me. You can't assign groups on the iPhone but you can do it on your Mac and then it syncs through iCloud. You can set it to No One or you can set it to just Favorites. If somebody tries to call you it will come through. So you're like me and you rarely receive phone calls anyway you may want to use that one. If you go in there you can set it to Everyone, which is useful because it still silences all the notifications and text messages. So you can see here it says Allow Calls From. One way is they can just simply be signed as a favorite contact. Well, there's a bunch of different ways they can get through to you. Now what happens if you turn it on and somebody needs to get through to you. So if you're going to bed early one night you can turn it on and know that it's going to go off at the regular time. ![]() So set it to your bedtime and your awake time.Īlso, when you turn on Do Not Disturb manually either through the Control Center or through here, it basically turns it on from now till the end of the day, through the scheduled period, and it turns it off automatically. You can change the default to anytime you want. The default will be something like 11:00 pm to 7:00 am. So you go into Settings and under Do Not Disturb you have the scheduled portion there. But, for the most part, Do Not Disturb is used automatically. When you bring up Control Center you just tap the little crescent moon there. So let's take a look at it.įirst of all the easiest way to turn on Do Not Disturb manually is to bring up Control Center. Well, there are ways to make sure that certain people can get through to you even with Do Not Disturb turned on. An important phone call or text message from someone they care about or from work when it's important. ![]() But they're worried that they're going to miss something important. A lot of people like the idea of your phone being quiet at night and not bothering you with notifications. Video Transcript: I get a lot of questions about the Do Not Disturb feature on the iPhone. Check out Allow Important Calls And Messages To Bypass Do Not Disturb at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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