How can I schedule my ringtone for night-time calls on iPhone?

Focus for the win. Emergency Bypass may be useful instead of or in addition to Focus. It will depend on whether you know the numbers that would be likely to call after hours.

If the number calling you might be unpredictable, you could potentially work around this by establishing a number with a service like Google Voice. This is what I use for work. It can be configured to show your google voice number on your caller ID instead of the number of the actual caller, allowing you to setup a single number for emergency bypass. You are then free to silence any other calls and notification you want using the vibrate switch or focus while allowing all calls to your google voice number to ring through. Just make sure anyone who would need to call through has the google voice number.

You can also place the google voice number on do not disturb for those times when you are not on call.

You can’t schedule silent mode, you have to manually turn it off.

here are a few alternatives:

• Give the hospital emergency bypass, then even if silent mode is on the hospital can still contact you.

• Consider using a focus, set it up so that you only receive notifications from selected contacts. (This will mute the other notifications.) that way you can keep silent mode off and only have it ring when you get called by one of the selected contacts.

JessLor wrote:

Hey thanks so much for the replies! I have focus set up but what in referring to is a schedule to automatically turn my sound on at night. You know the little button on the side top left that toggles between silent/vibrate and ring? I want the ring part to turn on at night. So that when focus is on and folks call, the calls will have sound. They’re already coming through but I cannot hear them on vibrate.

Instead of using the ring/silent switch during the day, use Focus. Then, at night have the Focus turn off so that the phone rings. While this is the opposite of the way most people probably use it, there's no reason you can't set it up this way.

Set up a Focus on iPhone - Apple Support

Yeah I also think you could set up Focus to meet your needs. Let us know if you need help with setting it up.

Great suggestions Gandolf 👍