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Gail
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 Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:12 am |
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Is the side-button that turns off the ringer simply the "hardware version" of the software Do Not Disturb?
Forgetting about the complicated software versions of DND (various "focus" modes; accepting calls from only your cat (if she calls more than once), etc.), is there any difference between the simple DND mode and turning off the ringer with the side control?
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Paw
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:37 am |
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Switch on the side will silence the phone but doesn't turn off vibrate.
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Gail
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:49 am |
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Jonah
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:57 pm |
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DND will stop notifications.
Switching the ringer to silent will not.
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Gail
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:04 pm |
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What Gail said.
(Thank you.)
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:51 pm |
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Sound from video will still play audibly though with the hardware mute turned on.
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Gail
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 1:40 pm |
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Thanks for the continuing information, and distinguishing features about these two.
At night, I leave my phone on/sleeping. And I have been using is scheduled DND because I do not want the phone to ring after a certain time at night, and before a certain time in the morning.
I have now canceled that scheduled DND, and use the side-slide to turn the ringer off.
I think that this works better for me. Some mornings – if I wake up before the DND period is complete and want to hear incoming calls - I need to cancel the setting completely. And then remember to turn it back on for the next evening.
This new way – turning the ringer off – requires me only to turn it back on, and nothing more.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 7:01 pm |
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You can set DND to allow repeat calls - callers ringing again within 3 minutes will get put through.
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