Q: Using Do Not Disturb, will my alarm sound, but silence calls, texts and notifications?

Turn on Do Not Disturb  suppress all incoming calls and notifications. Enable it manually or schedule

a recurring time. Or allow calls from your favorites or specific contact groups.

Yes, your alarm will sound.

Actually Alarm will NOT sound. Tested today, by being late to work because of this. As far as I understand, the best workaround is to schedule the DND function to turn off right before the alarm.

no, alarm sounds when in DND

what i meant is DND doesn't stop alarms

Message was edited by: jai_d81

trakais wrote:

 

Actually Alarm will NOT sound. Tested today, by being late to work because of this. As far as I understand, the best workaround is to schedule the DND function to turn off right before the alarm.

Then there is something wrong with your device. I've done repeated tests on a variety of devices. The alarm sounds. You have to be using the built in Clock app.

Have you tried resetting your device? Force closing the Clock app? Have you made sure that the volume was turned up?

Best of luck.

OK tested again, Alarm works fine. Disregard my above report. Not sure what happened the first time, maybe didn't set the alarm properly :-(

trakais wrote:

 

OK tested again, Alarm works fine. Disregard my above report. Not sure what happened the first time, maybe didn't set the alarm properly :-(

I've done that a time or two.

Yes your alarm will still sound like normal if you activate the Do Not Disturb function as I just done a trial alarm before I sent my appropriate time :)

Your alarm will still sound with DND on. But, there are a few times when it didn't go off for me and I think it was because my vibrate switch was on. Typically, if DND is off, but your vibrate switch is on (meaning you have it set so calls and such will not make sound by way of that switch on the side) then your alarm will still go off. However if your vibrate switch is on while DND is on, i believe it silences the alarm.

erinoclock wrote:

 

However if your vibrate switch is on while DND is on, i believe it silences the alarm.

If you're referring to the mute switch (the slider above the volume buttons), no, it does NOT silence the alarm.

TThe only way to silence the alarm is to have the ringer volume off so make sure you have it all the way up to hear tthe alarm when it's on vibrate mode/mute or DND mode. always have my phone on mute with vibrate but the ringer high so my alarm is loud enough

If you use the clock app in IOS, it will sound even if DND is urned on.  If you download an alarm clock app from the app store, it will NOT sound.  An approach is to use the scheduled DND, and turn it off, say, 5 minutes before alarm time.

ghm1938 wrote:

 

If you use the clock app in IOS, it will sound even if DND is urned on.

Yes, that's what I answered three years ago.

The alarm clock apps need a warning label.

Gene