Do Not Disturb App Exceptions

Meygj20 wrote:

I have no idea why Apple doesn’t have a feature for this. It is so important that makes that do not disturb and silent mode useless.

They do have a feature like this. It's up to the app developer to implement it.

Yes, yes yes! This is so much needed, in so many different ways, but here is a specific one - In Israel we have an app by the army that alerts you if rockets are launched to your area. We need this app to always sound an alarm to make sure we go to shelters when under attack. This is a matter of life and death

Yes well it’s clearly something that just NEEDS TO HAPPEN . Matters of life or death , health , security issues , financial matters , important business things . At the moment it appears that NONR of us can use this feature without being exposed to risk of some sort . For you - it’s life or death .

this must be sorted out .

p.s Im sorry that things are out of control again over there for you . This would be something that APPLE could do to help everyone in conflict zones . Dont k is how you get any sleep to be honest . But this would surely help

This would be great!

So many of us are working from home, now, and my office uses FUZE app for phone calls. Currently, I can't use Do Not Disturb to limit distractions and interruptions from other apps because I would miss work calls. I'd like to enable Do Not Disturb except for FUZE so I could reduce interruptions and distractions and increase productivity at home.

As someone working at a fire department this feature should absolutely be implemented. We use an app that notifies us of calls. While sleeping I want my phone on do not disturb except for any emergency calls that get notified by our app. Thank you Apple!

whopta wrote:

As someone working at a fire department this feature should absolutely be implemented. We use an app that notifies us of calls. While sleeping I want my phone on do not disturb except for any emergency calls that get notified by our app. Thank you Apple!

1) Apple doesn't read here for suggestions.

2) Apple has already made that an option. It's up to the app developer to implement it. Contact whoever designed your app.

Qwerty1234uiop wrote:

This would be extremely helpful! Stock alarms and weather warnings need to be available after hours. Please!!!

Emergency alerts, which include severe weather alerts are not affected by DND. You can turn them on in Setthings>Notirications>Emergency Alerts and Public Safety Alerts.

You can also get a weather app that makes use of the override function. The one I use is Carrot, admittedly, not to everyone's taste.

The stock alarm clock app on the iPhone is also not silenced by DND.

And, lastly, I don't know who you're saying, "Please!!!" to. No one participating in this thread has the power to change anything. I doubt any of the app developers who would need to make the changes you want are reading here.

We absolutely need this function...just this week someone CAME INTO MY HOUSE while I was asleep and I would have been notified had my Ring alerts been allowed to come through. I want the option for exceptions for security and weather at least.

HayHay820 wrote:

We absolutely need this function...just this week someone CAME INTO MY HOUSE while I was asleep and I would have been notified had my Ring alerts been allowed to come through.

Are you sure you would have heard the alert over the noise the housebreakers were making?

And I don't know why you seriously feel the need to literally reply to every single person to tell them that Apple doesn't read their own support and discussion section, that app developers apparently write code for all their platform apps but check a box to Hide In iOS, and about your AMAZING weather app that does the same thing all other weather apps do.

Scarlet4226 wrote:

And I don't know why you seriously feel the need to literally reply to every single person to tell them that Apple doesn't read their own support and discussion section, that app developers apparently write code for all their platform apps but check a box to Hide In iOS, and about your AMAZING weather app that does the same thing all other weather apps do.

Everyone needs a hobby.... 😉

And, most people don't actually bother to read much more than the original post and the last couple most recent ones.

Absolutely. It’s woke me up any other time it’s gone off. I sleep lightly so this was my first time trying Do Not Disturb to keep random notifications from waking me, but I won’t use it again unless they give you option to choose which apps can come through. Luckily this time it wasn’t anyone with malicious intent...next time could be a different story. Well...hopefully there won’t be a next time.

HayHay820 wrote:

Absolutely. It’s woke me up any other time it’s gone off. I sleep lightly so this was my first time trying Do Not Disturb to keep random notifications from waking me, but I won’t use it again unless they give you option to choose which apps can come through. Luckily this time it wasn’t anyone with malicious intent...next time could be a different story. Well...hopefully there won’t be a next time.

I think you missed my point. I'll try not being subtle. There were people breaking into your house. Surely that would have woken you up? Did you really also need an alert on your phone?

I believe you missed my point when I said it wasn’t anyone with malicious intent, so I’ll be less subtle where you can understand...they weren’t breaking into my house. They had permission to use the hidden key if needed, but I would like to be alerted when ANYONE is around my home during the night while I’m sleeping because I live alone.

HayHay820 wrote:

I believe you missed my point when I said it wasn’t anyone with malicious intent, so I’ll be less subtle where you can understand...they weren’t breaking into my house. They had permission to use the hidden key if needed, but I would like to be alerted when ANYONE is around my home during the night while I’m sleeping because I live alone.

Intent is irrelevant. If you're such a light sleeper, and someone who lives alone, someone coming into your house is probably going to be louder and more likely to wake you than the little "ding ding" the Ring alert makes.

Tell your friends to ring the doorbell.