iMessages and Do Not Disturb is disturbing me!

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iMessages and Do Not Disturb is disturbing me!

I am using iMessages on my mac as well as my phone and iPad. I have "Do Not Disturb" set to not show messages when phone is turned off. Why are these messages still popping up on my phone? Some don't and some do. I have yet to be able to figure it out. Isnt the whole point of it to not keep getting the same message chiming at you on your phone while you are chatting on your computer but yet still having the full conversationd being stored on your phone as well?

Posted on Jan 24, 2014 5:07 PM

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ChrisJ4203

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Jan 24, 2014 5:12 PM in response to fpalestini

There is not a setting in Do Not Disturb not to show messages when the phone is turned off. Besides, if the phone is turned off, you would not receive messages, and Do Not Disturb would not matter.

With Do Not Disturb on, you will just not hear messages or phone calls when it is active. They would still be received on the device, you just do not see them. If the message is generating a tone on the phone, then you must have a setting wrong on Do Not Disturb. Do have have it set for Always, or Only When Phone is Locked? Do you have Manual ON, or Scheduled set to ON, with the time sometime between the schedule you set?

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KFAMAS

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Jan 24, 2014 5:12 PM in response to fpalestini

When you go into DND on your iPhone is SILENCE set to Always or Only when iPhone locked? setting it to Always may help if your phone does not lockup right away or your keep it open while its beside you.

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fpalestini Author

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Jan 24, 2014 5:17 PM in response to KFAMAS

In DND silence is set to "Only when iPhone is locked". I still get messages popping up when my phone is locked.

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fpalestini Author

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Jan 24, 2014 5:20 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

When I say phone is turned off I didn't mean it was physically powered down. Just blank screen and in lock mode. And yes with DND set to "When Iphone is Locked" I am getting imessages popping up and making noise.

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ChrisJ4203

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Jan 24, 2014 5:21 PM in response to fpalestini

Okay, is DND turned on manually or scheduled as I asked?

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fpalestini Author

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Jan 24, 2014 5:26 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

Ahhh OK I didnt even have manually turned on. I could have sworn there was a setting to where you could just apply DND to imessage. If not that it pretty lame.

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ChrisJ4203

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Jan 24, 2014 5:28 PM in response to fpalestini

Nope, Do Not Disturb is just that, Do Not Disturb. If you have individuals in your Favorites, their calls would get through if you have that setting on, but there is no way to just quiet Messages, unless you turn the individual sound off. Do Not Disturb silences everything, again except favorites if you select that setting.

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fpalestini Author

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Jan 24, 2014 5:32 PM in response to fpalestini

My phone sits next to me while working but I communicate with imessages on my Mac all day. I dont feel the need to have to silence phone calls along with everything else coming in to my phone just to silence my imessages.

Wow I find that crazy you can't do so. It just seems like a given that you would be able to do that with the obvious non-stop popups and noises you get from your phone when carrying on that conversation on your mac.

Thanks for your help though.

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ChrisJ4203

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Jan 24, 2014 5:34 PM in response to fpalestini

If it was me in that situation, I would just select NONE for the message sound for the day. You can let Apple know how you would like to see this change by going to the feedback page. Go to www.apple.com/feedback and click on the appropriate link.

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