With newest iphone update it is apparently not possible to mute MESSAGES but NOT calls with the "Do Not Disturb" function. DND was one of my fav. features and now it's useless to me! Any suggestions?

Hello, the DND function has definitely changed - at least on my phone and my husband's phone. It looks like you're right about the "favorites" selection, but it has changed for the "everyone" function! On this support page --> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204321 <-- the screen shows that under the "Allow Calls From" option, the phone says "Incoming calls from your favorites will not be silenced." That is what my phone still says if I select "favorites" - so, calls from Favorites will not be silenced, but all text messages will be.

In the past, when I selected to still allow calls from "Everyone," the message underneath my selection used to say "No incoming calls will be silenced." But incoming messages WERE silenced, as with the "favorites" option. However, when I select "Everyone," the messages underneath my selection now says "No incoming calls OR MESSAGES will be silenced." (Emphasis is mine!) And, sure enough, I now get messages! It's very frustrating because I always used DND to silence everything except calls, and I never wanted to limit calls to only "favorites" because I always felt that in a real emergency someone might call from another phone other than their other number.... I never wanted to let in only repeat calls, either, because in a real emergency I want to answer the phone right away.

Any other suggestions other than having to turn off my text message alerts manually every night? Any information on whether they might change this back to the way it was before?

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the responses! It most definitely used to be that when I set my phone for DND but selected to allow calls from "everyone," I received no text message alerts (they would be on my screen in the morning but my screen would not light up and my phone would not make a noise when I got them). I had been doing this for about a year. However, now, when I do DND and select to allow calls from "everyone," the phone specifically says underneath "No incoming calls or messages will be silenced," when previously it used to just say "No incoming calls will be silenced," and now I do get text message alerts with DND on with those settings. When you tried it with your son, were you selecting to receive calls from "everyone" or had you done "favorites" or "no one"?

I have powered off and on my phone several times and definitely turned DND on and off a number of times. And this same change has occurred on both my and my husband's iphones.

For now I'm just getting accustomed to the idea that I will have to turn on DND (to turn off things like calendar alerts) AND turn my text message alerts off manually from the "sounds" portion of settings every night unless I want to restrict phone call alerts to "favorites" or only repeat calls, neither of which I would be comfortable with. Very frustrating!

Thanks again for your help and please let me know if you have any other suggestions!

Thanks for the response! Was not an Amber alert though, just a regular text message. I gave a little bit more detail below to Chris, but this is definitely a change. Appreciate any suggestions!

Just took two (hazy) pictures of my phone with the DND settings open so you can see the different descriptions that appear if I select "favorite" ("Incoming calls from your favorites will not be silenced") versus "everyone" ("No incoming calls or messages will be silenced").

Here's favorites:

And here's everyone: