The Do Not Disturb feature is considered by many to be one of the best features of iOS and we use it on a daily basis, and we think that it is sometimes more appropriate than putting the device on silent. And we dedicated an article to it when it was released in iOS 6 -this link- Then it got many improvements, and then Apple forgot it, so we talked about Our wishes For this feature. And because many of our followers do not use this great feature, so we decided to submit this article to explain the best uses of this feature.

Best uses of the Do Not Disturb feature

Do not disturb messages

A very immersed feature, it is not an exaggeration to say that less than 1% of iOS users use it. This feature enables you to have the messages of a specific contact reach you without any notification or alert. This feature is important, as there may be a friend who sends you a lot, but you do not want to "block" him. The solution is to enable Do Not Disturb for his messages. Simply open the message, click Details, and activate the service.

Do not disturb feature

Because the Do Not Disturb feature is available in the Control Center, you can activate or disable it at any time and within any application without going to the settings and this is what makes it easy to use. This will lead us to the third point, which is the mode of games and focus.

Focus mode and games

How many times have you focused on something you do on your device, whether this is a conversation, reading a book, watching a video, or even a game, then you were surprised by notifications that cut you off your focus or a phone call that wasted what you were doing. If you want to focus on what you are doing, turn on do not disturb mode with the option "always silent" activated by going to settings, then do not disturb, and at the bottom choose always silent

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Now if you want to focus on what you are doing, just pull out the control center and activate the service "Crescent Icon". Any calls, notifications, or messages will be in the background and you won't be distracted.

The best feature while sleeping

How many times have you put your phone on silent before bed and forgot to put it back on normal after waking up? The Do Not Disturb feature is best in this case for two reasons:

  1. You can set it for your device to return to receive notifications and calls at a specific time, so you do not need to remember to return it. This is not available in silent mode
  2. You can exclude any person or group of people so that they can contact you at any time. But if your device becomes silent, there are no exceptions, and if something very important happens, these people will not be able to contact you.

Go to "Settings", then go to "Do Not Disturb" and activate the "Scheduler" feature, and choose the appropriate time for your sleep (you can activate it at work time or any time you make your device permanently silent).

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Miscellaneous tricks:

1

Do not forget to create a group of important callers such as your mother and of course not your wife :) Then allow this group to contact you at any time even if the offline feature is working, there may be an important matter.

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2

 You can create multiple contact lists and activate the feature for them, for example when you arrive at work you do do not disturb and set the exception is the work contact group so that the calls that you receive are only from your work team. And when sleeping, you make the feature exclude the list of important people mentioned in the previous step.

3

 You can activate the option of "repeated calls". You want to allow anyone to call more than once in a row. Perhaps there is something worth cutting what you are doing.

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Are you using the Do Not Disturb feature on your device? And do you have any helpful trick to share with us?

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