How to remove the do not disturb focus on my iPhone?

CATWAK wrote:

MY PHONE NO LONGER RINGS, EVEN WITH THE VOLUME AND SOUND AT MAX. I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT IT’S BECAUSE MY IPHONE 15 ON DO NOT DISTURB BUT I CANNOT TURN IT OFF!!

Why can't you turn it off?

Go to the Control Center and tap on the small round picture icon on the Focus button. Don't press and hold; just tap.

Or, say, "Hey, Siri, turn off Do Not Disturb".

See also:

Why doesn’t my phone ring? - Apple Community

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You can't permanently delete it but someone above gave a detailed description of how to turn it off! Lawrence Finch is his name.

Do Not Disturb is a permanent feature of iOS, but you don’t have to use it. If you really have no use for a feature that blocks notifications, alerts and calls at certain times (such as in performances, meetings, class, etc) you can disable it.

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 (see green circle in image below). You can optionally set one or more schedules by going to:

Settings/Focus/Do Not Disturb/Set a Schedule.

I copied and pasted his response in case it doesn't show up for you

DavidREntwistle wrote:

I only use the ”Sleep” focus mode and I want to delete the “Do not disturb” focus mode.

That is not currently an option. Are you using the sleep-tracking feature? If you're not, you could simply delete the Sleep focus and just use the Do Not Disturb.

My reason is simple; to be able to toggle the sleep mode on, I first have to navigate past the do not disturb mode. By default this is the main focus mode, there is no way of setting a different focus mode to be the default. Because of this, I need to long press the control centre focus button and then toggle the other mode on. Instead of simply tapping the focus mode button if Sleep is my only focus mode.

This is what makes me think you're not using the Sleep tracking function. If you were, the Sleep focus would come on automatically. So, once again, delete every focus, but Do Not Disturb and set that up for use when you sleep.

I hope Apple engineers are aware of this.

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jss62 wrote:

I saw someone mention smart activations. Can you elaborate on this and where I might be able to figure out if this is what's happening? If you're referring to the 'personal, sleep, work' modes in the focus setup, they are disabled already.

Go to Settings>Focus and select the one you're having a problem with, for example "Personal". Tap on it. Go about halfway down the screen. Under "Set a Schedule" you will see "Smart Activation". Make sure it's set to "Off". Do that on every Focus you have.

josée1066 wrote:

my iPhone 13 does not have the same screen to slide the Di Nit Disturb permanently off. Another online person also said his iPhone 13 does not have the same screen to turn off the slide as the video showed. HELP!

To turn off Focus, pull down the Control Center. Tap on the circular picture on the Focus button. That will turn it off. If you tap on the word, it will bring up another menu, so just tap.

You should also go to Settings>Focus and, for each focus, turn off any schedules or smart activations. In fact, delete the ones you're never likely to use.

You can remove all of the Focuses except for Do Not Disturb. All you can do with Do Not Disturb is keep it turned off. Make sure you don't have Smart Activations enabled and don't have any schedules set up.

Do Not Disturb is a permanent feature of iOS, but you don’t have to use it. If you really have no use for a feature that blocks notifications, alerts and calls at certain times (such as in performances, meetings, class, etc) you can disable it.

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 (see green circle in image below). You can optionally set one or more schedules by going to:

Settings/Focus/Do Not Disturb/Set a Schedule.

super119 wrote:

It doesn’t work. My phone has five settings none of which I can delete.

dnd; driving; sleep; work; personal

The only one you can't delete is Do Not Disturb. I suspect you're not swiping down far enough. The delete button is all the way at the bottom.

And you can easily turn off DND.

To turn it off PERMANENTLY:

• Go to Settings/Focus
• Tap on each focus except Do Not Disturb, then remove it
• Tap on Do Not Disturb and remove any scheduled times that you created (They can only be created by the user)
• Open the Control Center and tap on the button with the crescent moon if it is highlighted to turn off Do Not Disturb
• If the button is not highlighted Do Not Disturb is already off
• It will remain off PERMANENTLY unless you turn it on again.

I have old IPhone 11 ProMax .. Have been trying to get the DND icon turned OFF that showed up a few wks ago off my IPad.. tried everyone's suggestions nothing worked.. This morning in Googling someone suggested .. if all else fails .. "Ask Siri to 'Turn Do Not Disturb OFF" . I never use Siri but I did " Ask Siri.." and the DND immediately turned OFF and disappeared off rt. corner of IPad.. DND was never on my IPhone.. Maybe try the same "Ask Siri" with your phone.... it's just a thought.

Hey everyone, I think I’ve been playing around with trying to figure out how to get mine to turn off for a year or two and getting a bit tired of the Apple administrators and they’re like very heavy layering of condescension towards us ha ha…

I did most things I saw stated all over the Internet. Also for my focus have it for like 45 minutes in the middle of the night on a Wednesday but they still didn’t stop DND, but I had no idea, particularly on older Apple phones like I have an SE and I have a seven, at some point when the do not disturb was created you, you attached a wallpaper specific to it and I never realize that and I would change my wallpapers often but one wallpaper in particular, I realized it always went directly to do not disturb. If you go into the wallpaper section there is a space to change which wallpaper you use when you put your phone on do not disturb and I think that’s where some of us never realized and hence couldn’t turn it off. I hope this helps a few of you out there.

Pull down the top bar to manage focus modes.

FOCUS-DO NOT DISTURB IS A NIGHTMARE TO WORK WITH!!!I FINALLY JUST PUT THE TIME IT WOULD WORK IN THE SCHEDULE AND IT IS FROM 11:59PM TO 12:02AM AND I AM GETTING CALLS AGAIN. CRAZY!!! APPLE THIS IS AN ISSUE YOU NEED TO FIND AND EASY SOLUTION TO AND LET US CONTROL THIS NOT APPLE!!!WE NEED TO JUST HAVE AN OFF OPPORTUNITY!

AppleTreeTrimmer wrote:

Focus button is missing from my App Library. Cannot remove the app info.

"Focus" is not an app. It's part of iOS. It cannot be removed. However, you can follow the instructions already provided in this thread to simply turn it off and not use it.

I absolutely hate the new Do Not Disturb feature and am incredibly frustrated that I cannot simply disable it. Is there no way of removing it? I want to control my own coms and do not need Apple to control it for me. Thank you!