HT204321: Use Do Not Disturb on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Learn about Use Do Not Disturb on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Q: Using Do Not Disturb, will my alarm sound, but silence calls, texts and notifications?
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Aug 11, 2016 12:50 PMby Meg St._Clair,ghm1938 wrote:
The alarm clock apps need a warning label.
Gene
"Warning: if you set an alarm, it will sound a loud noise at the time you directed. If you do not want the alarm to make a loud noise, turn it off prior to the set time."
This behavior strikes you as unusual in an alarm clock?
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Aug 11, 2016 1:02 PMby ghm1938,No, no. The warning for the app should state that the alarm will NOT sound if DND is turned on. Since both are used at night, expecting an alarm to work at the set time is a common mistake. As one correspondent said, he was late to work, because he misunderstood a reply.
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Aug 11, 2016 1:16 PMby Meg St._Clair,ghm1938 wrote:
No, no. The warning for the app should state that the alarm will NOT sound if DND is turned on.
That is incorrect. As has been noted repeatedly in this thread, the alarm WILL sound even if DND is turned on. The alarm WILL sound if the mute switch is engaged.
The person who said that it didn't work that way realized (three years ago) that they were wrong.
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Aug 12, 2016 5:45 AMby Meg St._Clair,ghm1938 wrote:
The real answer is: it depends. If you download and install an alarm app, such alarm 4 free from
Impala Studios, it will not override DND. I just tried it. But, if you use the clock app in IOS, it will override DND.And I explained that in my original answers to this thread years ago.
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Aug 12, 2016 1:01 PMby ghm1938,I hve lots of computer and software experience, but not much with iphone. Not an academic exercise. I had to be at a hospital 40 miles away for early morning surgery. Both alarm and surgery worked OK. Next alarm test is for a flight to paris on 24 August. This was important. Thanks for your help. Gene
