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Sorry to shoehorn this in: a lot of people use Do Not Disturb mode because they miss calls because they forget to turn off mute. iPhones need timed mute like S
by nodata 14y ago
Sorry to shoehorn this in: a lot of people use Do Not Disturb mode because they miss calls because they forget to turn off mute.
iPhones need timed mute like Shush! on Android [1] - press mute: it asks "how long?"
Going into the cinema? Mute for two hours. Meeting? An hour.
1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicobject.shush https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicobje...
- CamperBob2 14y agoThe biggest favor Apple could do their users is simply to provide a silent ringtone option, so that users can leave their ringer turned off while 'whitelisting' the appropriate contacts. It's simply staggering that this has apparently never occurred to anyone at Apple. The cheapest feature phone in a bubble package at Radio Shack supports silent ringtones -- or at least it did a few years ago -- but with the iPhone, the user has to record or purchase a track with several seconds of silence and create one manually.
- nodata 14y agoIsn't this kind of what Do Not Disturb was hoping to do, with the whitelisting?
- nwh 14y agoThat is exactly what Do Not Disturb does. It allows for whitelisting of contacts, both specifically in the Contacts app, and if they are very persistent callers (emergency, urgent).
- ragmondo 14y agoooh ooh ooh. Disclaimer: Plug for my app called "tonepush" coming up. I wrote an app that allows you to change the ringtone on someone else's phone (think xmas tunes, valentine songs etc etc). Anyway, one of my users had this issue where his wife is expecting a kid and he always has his phone on silent at work, so I've extended the app so that if he enables a web password, she can log in, turn his phone off silent and then ring him. Before you say it, no it's not for iPhone but for Android. It's called TonePush Beta. All feedback gratefully received.
- bruceboughton 14y agoInterestingly you can set a silent alert for text messages per contact. I have this for automated balance/credit/debit alerts from my banks as they seem to think everyone wants to know their balance at 7am.
- CamperBob2 14y agoYeah, AT&T likes to sending texts to confirm my monthly payment at the ungodly hour of 2 PM. For some reason, these idiots assume that everybody works 9-5 and nobody works nights.
- hfs 14y ago4.2 also has "do not disturb" mode. It works properly too!