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

Sparkyz76 wrote:

CHECK SETTINGS- messenger- turn off focus. People don't answer...@ right I figured mine out by myself -. obviously, we all have the textbook answer FROM APPLE. i’m pretty sure everybody can go into settings search focus and come up with going through that option in this/my case I must’ve turned focus on from messenger app.

Messenger is a Facebook app.

If you mean "Messages," you can't turn Focus on or off through Settings>Messages. What you can do is turn on or off the ability of Messages to access Focus.

Regardless, you don't turn Focus on or off through Settings. You do it through the Control Center. See my previous post.

I have the same issue. I didn't put it in DNS, so I don't know how it happened. I can't turn the blasted thing off! When I go to DNS in Settings it says "On" and there is no "Off"! Now I understand why my text notifications never dings and I'm not getting phone calls!

Did anyone solve this?

This is like ground hog day (the movie). Often, at night in the dark, I am trying to turn on flash light and, apparently, I hit focus and end up turning on do not disturb on inadvertently.

Apple: please fix it so it is really hard to turn on do not disturb. It was on for several days and I missed all sorts of financial and security alerts and it really p.....d me off. l hate this crazy new do not disturb control feature.

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:

The only way I could turn it off was to ask Siri to turn it off! There wasn’t any option available on the screen

The option is in Control Center, as has been explained previously in this thread.

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.

I have just got an Apple phone from using Android. Bit of a learning curve, but this stumped me. The moon is showing up at the top left and shows on in the focus screen but can not be turned off because it is shaded out.

This is a pretty stupid set up. Keep trying I suppose.

Ok I asked Siri and it went off.

racerlady wrote:

1. None of the 'directions' offered here worked for me on my iPhone 12. I finally did these steps to turn off my Do Not Disturb mode:

From my Locked screen I could see the "'moon icon' and Do Not Disturb".

2. I pressed and held that area until the buttons from the Focus items appeared.

3. Do Not Disturb was clearly 'on'.

4. I pressed one time to turn to Off position.

I also noted other focus buttons at were off at that time, but I could toggle on from this view.

Good Luck

Yes, those instructions have been given in this thread. However, you don't have to press and hold. All you need do is tap the picture.

Use Siri. Every direction given to turn it off didn’t work because none of the settings they suggest are there. I asked Siri to turn off do not disturb and that worked. I am do sick of Apple iPhones quirks!

Lawrence Finch: Did you see the part where coolside wrote, "I don’t want to use this feature, ever."? Then why describe settings that only apply when DND is On?

Note Pooh_go_Stillers' comment, "I recommend to switch to Samsung." Apple engineers, designers and managers take note.

I'm using Sonoma v14.4.1 on a MBP and iOS 17.4.1 on iPhone 15 Pro. I've been an Apple Developer since the Apple II days, and this Do Not Disturb feature and defaults break several GUI principles on both platforms. Especially the principle of Least Surprise.

On the MacBook, System Settings, Focus panel, "Do Not Disturb" says "On" but offers no way to turn it off. You have to notice there's a Crescent Moon icon in the menubar to turn it off. Again on the iPhone, you have to know there's nothing in Settings to turn it off, it's the Crescent Moon icon in the Control Center. Once they know to go there to turn it off, there's no reason to describe Focus Settings.

Also note: When I accidentally turned on DND on my iPhone, it also turned it On on my MacBook! So then I found the iPhone Settings > Focus feature, "Share Across Devices" was switched On. I turned it Off, and then turned off DND on the iPhone, only to find out (of course) DND was still On on my MacBook!

I'm sure there are people who find all this flexibility worth the effort to learn how it works. But when someone says, "I just want to turn it off", then don't send them into Settings!

johnberriman wrote:

It says the Focus icon is on Control Centre. It isn’t on mine. What do I do to turn off Do not Disturb?

As it can't be removed from Control Center, it's there. If some other focus (e.g. Work) is enabled, the button will say "Work".

You can also try saying, "Hey, Siri, turn off focus."

OK SO. i tried the fix where you just ask siri to turn off do not disturb. siri assured me that do not disturb was off, yet the moon was still there.

so i then asked siri to turn ON do not disturb. (the moon remained.)

THEN i asked siri to turn it off, and NOW it is off, and the moon is gone.

i miss the toggle switch. there was no sane reason to remove it. apple needs to get it together, cruise these desperate help forums, and make changes that make our lives easier not harder. nobody needed separate reasons for not being disturbed, like oh, i’m working, oh, i’m meditating, i’m sleeping. no. give us our simple toggle switch back, ffs.

This same “Focus” issue has just happened again overnight all by itself on my iPhone 13. Or the do not disturb light has and that quarter moon etc. has come on and now I can’t get notifications or anything and I didn’t do it. It does it by itself I called Apple and April or May. The guy took forever trying to fix it. Bless his heart, but he finally did instead of it happened again to call back with the call number. As in August, I can find that? No. But here the problem is again and I need to help with how to get rid of it. I looked at that list of things you said to do and that’s what I did back in April or May and obviously that doesn’t make it work forever. It keeps coming back and every time I get on the Apple community there’s new people that it’s happening to so I know this is a recurring problem and I don’t understand how unless What it probably is. Is that in the updates and upgrades nobody’s really fixed it. So it keeps happening to all of us users. Dear Lawrence is that what’s happening and if so, do we need to like form committee of users worldwide to try to get Apple to stop it? Yes I’m frustrated very. And if this was the only recurring problem on my iPhone 13, I would probably not be writing this note to use dear sir. But it’s not I have about six of them. That keep recurring and the most recent two is it just dropped during the night this is now 30 August so that was during the night of the 29th 30th of August 2024. It just dropped pages two and three of the icons on my iPhone 13 all by itself wasn’t even using the phone. it decided to not spell my name correctly which it’s been doing for two years. My name is DIANNE and overnight it now spells my name DIANE. Again that sounds like I don’t even know what that is what can I do. Help help help please.

sharonfromkodiak wrote:

How to turn off my DO NOT DISTURB mode on my iPhone 12.

thank you

You can either say, "Siri, turn off Do Not Disturb," or you can go to the Control Center and tap the little round picture on the Focus button. Don't press and hold. Don't tap on the word. Once the button says "Focus", you'll know that it's off.

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

Regards

Giulio