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iPhone iOS5 - How to turn off ALL notifcations overnight, but leave phone ON?

Hey all:

I really like the new notification center and all, but I've found a small issue with how I do things..... Since my phone is my alarm, I sleep with it right by my head and I don't want buzzes from Facebook or emails or such. However, I don't want to go to airplane mode so that someone could still call me if there's an emergency.

I used to do this with iOS4:

1. > Settings > Notifications > OFF and

2. > Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Turn Push to OFF, and Fetch to Manual

With iOS5, I can still do # 2, but #1 really isn't there anymore. As I understand it, I'd have to go to the screen for a whole mess of individual apps to turn off their notifications.

Does anyone else have a better way to do this? Basically, I want the PHONE on and everything else OFF.

Thanks!!!!!

iPhone 4, iOS 4.2.7

Posted on Oct 17, 2011 9:57 AM

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NC_Pepe

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Mar 20, 2012 9:37 PM in response to fatnecks

It simple...

Go to your cell phone carried, throw the iphone on their face and get a BlackBerry since apple does not have an app for that get your "beside mode" back. I am about to do this myself.

Tito E

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Sep 10, 2012 7:18 PM in response to fatnecks

Ahhhh I just upgraded and was looking for it like crazy. I live in a country 8 hours ahead of my friends, family and girlfriend. If I don't turn notifications off I get all the what's app groups messages, FB, e-mail, etc. while they are awake and I'm sleeping. If it vibrates it wakes me up. I still want to receive them on time. First thing I do in the morning is check everything I got while asleep. I still need wifi on because I use VOIP and Skype to receive any emergency call.

Before, I used to set the alarm every night, turn notifications off and done. Did you find anything to solve this?

fatnecks Author

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Sep 18, 2012 6:50 PM in response to Tito E

This is going to sound a little unrefined and NOT technical, but here's something that works for me. I use a program called Sunrise Alarm as my alarm clock. Even when the phones in vibrate mode, it will make the quiet sounds setup in the app to wake you up. So I put the phone in vibrate mode and plug it in next to my head on my nightstand.

To keep the vibrations throught the night from waking me up, I just set the phone on something soft. My wife has a doily thing underneath the lamp that's a thick cloth. When the phone is on a soft surface the vibrations don't seem to make enough noise to bother me.

Hole this helps somebody....

Tito E

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Sep 19, 2012 2:25 AM in response to fatnecks

Hello everyone, I've been using an app called "sleep tight". Got it for free in the apple store. It does not let you choose wich apps to to "mute" but I think it works for what everyone is looking for.

take care

MAE0125

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Sep 19, 2012 2:30 AM in response to fatnecks

Upgrade to iOS 6 and you will get the feature "Do Not Disturb". However, you'll get that tomorrow.

iPhone iOS5 - How to turn off ALL notifcations overnight, but leave phone ON?