Do not disturb mode

They actually do have this setting. If you go to a person in you contacts and choose ringtone, there is a slider toggle at the top that says “Emergency Bypass”. If you turn it on, that persons texts and calls will come through no matter what.

You do not understand. The phone is put into DND mode. No allowed notifications at all. If some idiot calls at 3:00am the phone will NOT let that call through BUT if that idiot calls right back then the phone rings. AND if that idiot or some other idiot calls before the phone can lock THE PHONE RINGS. If the phone "wakes up or unlocks" due to the idiot's first call then how do we completely lock the phone? Get it?

That doesn’t answer what I said at all - I have do not disturb on but the do not disturb function allows certain calls to get through - it is THAT functionality which is not working. I expect emergency calls from certain people to come through no matter what, and for THAT to not work, is a MAJOR flaw

Just chiming in. I have DND no exceptions on. It’s not working! It’s supposed to be on when my meditation app is open. I’m listening to sleep sounds and trying to take a nap. Then I get these jarring phone calls. Why? Again, no exceptions. DND is supposed to be on when the app is open.

Do Not Disturb means exactly what it says. It has options that allow you to make exceptions (e.g., no one can call you but your mother), but if you don’t use any of those options you will not get calls or alerts.

I have the same issue on my 13 Pro. Have you figured out how to fix it yet?

Can we get an actual solution to this problem??

All previous replies are inaccurate and unhelpful, please don’t repeat.

Or is dnd/focus just completely useless?

Me too. DND is On with allow calls from nobody. Music I playing and I am sleeping but calls still come through. Aggravating.

I have the opposite problem where people on my “allow” list cannot get through and this function never seems to go off when I’ve set it to - I’m deleting all of this off as it’s not only useless but actually making things worse - I have missed many important phone calls because of this

Have they figured this out yet ??? I’m having the same problem with people double calling and they are able to get through , while my phone is on dnd , no matter if my phone is locked or not !!!! That used to be a feature you could turn on and off but now i don’t see it at all in the settings!!!!

I’ve been using Android for years, and just switched to an iPhone 13 pro in the past couple of weeks. I really really miss Android functionality, it’s so easy and logical. iPhone makes you turn off all or nothing, I don’t know why Apple doesn’t understand that we need more granular control over volumes and do not disturb functionality. So stupid. Somebody Apple please just get an android phone and copy the functionality, everyone will be happier. I don’t care about the blasted camera!

I felt horrible reading this whole thread just now and knowing it was that second layer of DND that was causing it. I am the admin of iPhone tricks on FB…215,000 members…pop in and I could have solved this for you in 3 seconds. I actually believe that the first response you got solved it, but you didn’t read it deep enough.

This is normal. It is exactly as if you move the ringer switch on the left side of your phone. The phone call is indeed traveling to your phone and is ringing on your phone, only your ringer (and your screen) are not presenting the call to you.

Hi can you please help me

i had the focus app set to down time before it’s sleep time and I wasn’t ready to down time yet so I put the settings off but On whatsapp it still didn’t allow video calls and still said “missed call while on do not disturb “ but my dnd was off and so was the focus and bed time all off . Till now there is a line across my microphone and vid camera, yet I putt all functions off and restarted my phone several times.