Do not disturb mode

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!

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.

Same with m, i had a Samsung and on it or on any other phone do not disturb means do not disturb, on iPhone if the phone isn’t locked, calls go through and sometimes even when locked calls still go through

But it *is* a software issue. The software should be written so that do not disturb actually means something. Do not disturb should mean no sound comes on unless you say it should interrupt DND. Period. Apple worries too much about the camera, and not meaningful features.

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.

Android does it much better, where you can be much more granular. You can block text message sounds completely, and only allow phone call ring sounds from certain people. You can get right down to changing behavior per contact. you can even get down to the app notifications, per app.

If that’s an important feature, get an Android. Otherwise, you can do all of those things you listed with DND on an iPhone once you take about 5 minutes to learn how to use it.

You can also do everything on your list based on where you are (e.g. Home, Work, Driving, etc), what you are doing at the time, time of day, multiple times of day. So I don’t see where Android is more granular.

As you didn’t know this, I suspect you have never used an iPhone.

I want DND to automatically come on at 8:00 to pm. After that time I don't want ANY texts to ding from anyone, but I do want some selected contacts to be able to ring the phone. How do I do that on iphone? I could on Android. It's not a matter of education, iPhone simply does not have that type of feature.

I have recently trying to set my wife's phone up with Do Not Disturb and calls were still coming through. I discovered that in Do Not Disturb, even if you have no one in the allow list, by default it will still allow those in your favorites list to come through.

To stop those calls without messing up your favorites do this: Go to Settings\Focus\Do Not Disturb

click on People.

on the bottom half you will see

ALSO ALLOW

Calls From

click on that and change from Favorites to No One.

Hope that helps if this is still an issue for you or anyone else out there.

To stop the second call from getting through:

Go to Settings > Focus > Do Not Disturb > People > Allow Calls From > Allowed people only

Set ‘Allow Repeated Calls’ to OFF

But I swear, every time Apple changes their OS, they mess around with Do Not Disturb / Focus. I wish they would just make a setting for: allow calls from Allowed People Only, all the time, 24/7/365, whether or not you are using your phone, PERIOD. They do not seem to have figured out that this is how people avoid spam, which is continuous, and if they miss a call, they'll call the person back.

Since I upgraded to iOS 16.1, my Do Not Disturb is not working right, either.

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.

Karen_New_Orleans wrote:

But I swear, every time Apple changes their OS, they mess around with Do Not Disturb / Focus. I wish they would just make a setting for: allow calls from Allowed People Only, all the time, 24/7/365, whether or not you are using your phone, PERIOD. They do not seem to have figured out that this is how people avoid spam, which is continuous, and if they miss a call, they'll call the person back.

In DND, tap People, Allow Notifications From and add the people. Then in the dropdown choose “Allowed people only"

Plan B:

If you want to allow calls but not notifications, instead don’t list any people, just tap Allow Notifications from and list no one. Go to the Contacts app, tap Lists at the top, then Add List, and create a new list (I call it VIP). Now go back to All Contacts, tap on the contacts you want to be able to call you, and for each one tap Add to List and tap the VIP list.

Back in Do Not Disturb/People you can now choose the VIP list for Allow Calls From.

The evolution of DND started 2 versions ago. It was very basic, and a lot of people complained that it wouldn’t do what they specifically wanted it to do. So Apple added some features in iOS 15, but people still complained. So in iOS 16 it is now designed to do anything that you can possibly think of, including multiple schedules in a day, different schedules for different days, DND based on where you are (e.g. work, home, school, driving, eating meals), and you can even create your own. The trouble is for people who just want a simple Do Not Disturb that they can turn on or off there is no easy way to do it.

hot wheels efc wrote:

I have found the fix…. This worked for me anyway.

a schedule MUST BE SET for this feature to work properly.

hope this helps

Not true. I use DND and I do not have a schedule set.

I have the same problem. Calls and texts are coming through even with do not disturb on after only one phone call attempt. And I have repeated phone calls turned off. I only have one person set up to be allowed to get through and that is my daughter.