How do I turn Do Not Disturb mode off on my iPhone?

The toggle is now in the Control Center. Tap on the button with the crescent moon, not the word Focus:

I’m sorry but this response is completely useless since it just points users to the most basic how-to manual answer. The problem is there is NO OPTION TO TURN THIS FEATURE OFF APPEARING: no toggle switch, no toggling button, etc. I’ve reset all settings and still cannot solve this problem. Why is no one answering this or at least acknowledging it as a known bug?

I would like to add one more thing to Lawrence finch’s post. Once you open to the screen he posted, tap Focus. In my photo below, you can see what happens when you do that. All of the Focus options are visible. In my screen, the Work Focus is a different color from the rest. that means it is On. To turn off any focus that is a different color, simply tap it. It should return to a dark gray color like the others. That means it is off.

Incidentally, you can tap any Focus from this screen to turn it on or off. I hope this helps.

Thank you Lawrence Finch but there is no button circled in green, Just black boxes labeled Do not disturb, personal, and work. I wish your image was visible. I don’t want to use this feature, ever. I don’t want to have to hunt through the settings every time it randomly sets itself and blocks notifications. I do not want to fiddle with turning individual times off, I want the whole thing permanently silenced and gone. Any hope?

Do Nit Disturb is enabled on my phone, iPhone X. When I follow all the steps to disable it, there is no toggle switch on my screen to turn it off. I have even tried going into App Store and removing focus from my phone altogether, but that doesn’t work either! I am getting no phone calls or text messages. Please help me if you can.

Open your Control Center, tap the Focus icon, then tap DND option to disable that activity.

Regards

Giulio

See this support page (specifically the three last sections at the bottom):--> Turn on or schedule a Focus on iPhone

I am having the exact same problem…everything says go to Focus and turn toggle switch to off. I don’t have a toggle switch as well. Did anyone ever find a fix for this?

thank you

I tap it and absolutely nothing happens!!! Help, I want it off!!!!

coolside wrote:

Thank you Lawrence Finch but there is no button circled in green, Just black boxes labeled Do not disturb, personal, and work. I wish your image was visible. I don’t want to use this feature, ever. I don’t want to have to hunt through the settings every time it randomly sets itself and blocks notifications. I do not want to fiddle with turning individual times off, I want the whole thing permanently silenced and gone. Any hope?

You are not looking at the Control Center, you are looking in Settings.

To open the Control Center:

Phones with Face ID: Swipe down from the Battery icon

Phones with Touch ID (Home button): Swipe up from the bottom of the screen

Here is how to disable it completely:

Do Not Disturb setup has been made much more flexible, but this has come at the cost of much more complication. To get it working again, do these steps ONCE:

• Tap Settings
• Tap Focus
• Tap on any Focus settings that you will never use and remove them (you can add them back later if you change your mind, and even create new, custom ones)
• Tap Do Not Disturb
• Tap People
• Tap Allow Notifications From
• If anyone is listed who should not call you when DND is on delete them; if you don’t want any calls from anyone, any time, delete all people
• Tap the dropdown next to Allow Calls From and choose Allowed People Only
• Optionally, tap on Apps, then Allow Notifications From and don’t add any apps.

All of the above is a one-time setup. After that, turn DND on or off with the Control Center Focus button. You can optionally set one or more schedules by going to:Settings/Focus/Do Not Disturb/Set a Schedule.

If I can do it I assume anyone can do it. Here is exactly what I did (posted previously):

Do these steps ONCE:

• Tap Settings
• Tap Focus
• Tap on any Focus settings that you will never use and remove them (you can add them back later if you change your mind, and even create new, custom ones)
• Tap Do Not Disturb
• Tap People
• Tap Allow Notifications From
• If anyone is listed who should not call you when DND is on delete them; if you don’t want any calls from anyone, any time, delete all people
• Tap the dropdown next to Allow Calls From and choose Allowed People Only (even if there are no Allowed people)
• Optionally, tap on Apps, then Allow Notifications From and don’t add any apps.

All of the above is a one-time setup. After that, turn DND on or off with the Control Center button.

You can optionally set one or more schedules by going to:Settings/Focus/Do Not Disturb/Set a Schedule.

My DND comes on when I want it to, and NEVER comes on when I don’t want it to. I have a schedule from 10 PM to 7 AM. That is the only scheduled time I don’t get calls or notifications.

I actually added a custom focus I call Fitness. I set it the same as above, then as an option I chose “While at this location” at the gym I use. It works perfectly; when I am working out all of my calls and notifications are silenced. I don’t have to turn it on; that’s automatic based on the location.

When I go to a performance I tap the DND button on my Watch; it asks me for how long, and I chose “while at this location”. That silences both my watch and my phone until I leave the venue.

If I’m in a meeting I do the same thing; when it asks for how long, I choose the length of the meeting.

I finally figured this one out. No toggle buttons, removing every focus feature did not work, deleting all schedules did not work, was not int he control center, etc.

This worked :

I pressed and held the button on the right of my phone and I spoke to my phone: "Turn off Do not disturb".

and then I did a happy dance :)

None of the other replies I read in this thread worked for me except the most simplest and straightforward one. I too was attempting to disengage the "Do Not Disturb" setting on my iPhone Xs because calls, nothing was getting through. With the exception of no calls while driving, and none during my sleeping hours which were intentionally set quite awhile ago, my phone suddenly displayed "Do Not Disturb" during the day all day.

The one recommendation to disengage was to just ask Siri to turn off "Do Not Disturb" and it has. Thank goodness.

Dwalz60 wrote:

Except for me it wasn’t. As others have explained we would go to Focus in Control Center where DND was enabled. You could not toggle it to off. Thanks anyway.

You turn it off by tapping on the circular picture icon on the Focus button.