Do Not Disturb still allows Calls

Do Not Disturb still allows Calls?


iPhone 7, iOS 14

Posted on Jan 21, 2024 7:49 AM

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Posted on Jan 21, 2024 7:58 AM

Please look at your settings...


Repeated Calls: If someone calls you twice within three minutes, the second call isn't silenced.

Please see the pic below which is self-explanatory


  • You have allowed certain notifications to bypass Do Not Disturb. By default, phone calls, text messages, and FaceTime calls will still ring or vibrate when Do Not Disturb is on. However, you can also allow other notifications to bypass Do Not Disturb by going to Settings > Focus> Do Not Disturb > Allow Notifications and selecting the apps and contacts that you want to be able to notify you even when Do Not Disturb is turned on.
  • You have enabled System Haptics. System Haptics provides haptic feedback for certain actions, such as when you touch and hold an app icon or scroll through a list. Even if Do Not Disturb is on, your iPhone will still vibrate for System Haptics if you have enabled it. To disable System Haptics, go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics and turn off System Haptics.


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Jan 21, 2024 7:58 AM in response to Bardonicloud

Please look at your settings...


Repeated Calls: If someone calls you twice within three minutes, the second call isn't silenced.

Please see the pic below which is self-explanatory


  • You have allowed certain notifications to bypass Do Not Disturb. By default, phone calls, text messages, and FaceTime calls will still ring or vibrate when Do Not Disturb is on. However, you can also allow other notifications to bypass Do Not Disturb by going to Settings > Focus> Do Not Disturb > Allow Notifications and selecting the apps and contacts that you want to be able to notify you even when Do Not Disturb is turned on.
  • You have enabled System Haptics. System Haptics provides haptic feedback for certain actions, such as when you touch and hold an app icon or scroll through a list. Even if Do Not Disturb is on, your iPhone will still vibrate for System Haptics if you have enabled it. To disable System Haptics, go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics and turn off System Haptics.


Jan 22, 2024 1:41 AM in response to SravanKrA

Thanks but this doesn't help.


To clarify the repeat calls setting isn't the issue -- I already won't allow repeated calls to get thru. This was a single call from a family member although that shouldn't make a difference because I have not applied any kind of classification with callers.


"You have allowed certain notifications to bypass Do Not Disturb."


Have I? Where, because I haven't set anything up in Focus? Besides, what is the point of having a piece of s/ware that says "I am not going to disturb you" if it then disturbs you? the default should at least do what is says "on the tin."


"By default, phone calls, text messages, and FaceTime calls will still ring or vibrate when Do Not Disturb is on"


True to form and proof of Apple's failure in being able to code anything that is intuitive anymore, see points below,

They shroud rename it "Do Disturb" surely?


"However, you can also allow other notifications to bypass Do Not Disturb"


I just want to be "Not Disturbed," by anyone, whilst the "Do Not Disturb" is set on?


"You have enabled System Haptics."


Thanks, but it's not relevant - when you have a temperature of 102C and you don't want to be disturbed, why would Apple add s/ware that says Do Not Disturb when it doesn't no such thing? The call woke me up by ringing (not vibrating).


Only in the abysmal Apple IOS 16 would the words "Do Not Disturb" when typed into the Setting search bar return no results... 🤦‍♂️


After being with Apple for 24 yrs, it's sad to say that something has gone wrong in their s/ware design over the last 5+ yrs. The art of simple, intuitive s/ware has very much long gone.

Jan 26, 2024 1:50 AM in response to Bardonicloud

Like most of IOS it's typical Apple faulty coding.

Just like my calendar where I was literally just looking at the repeat event function and having now set up 10 hrly events which I now want to repeat for the next 5 days there is no repeat in edit.


IOS IS ABYSMAL.


TIRED OFF HAVING TO GOOGLE HOW TO DO THINGS / FAULT FIND. TOTAL JOKE.


APPLE LOST THE PLOT YRS AGO...

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