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Do Not Disturb Exceptions by CONTACT not indiv phone #?

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CavemanMike

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Nov 8, 2013
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In the Android world, I was able to white-list exception contacts from a do-not-disturb perspective.

In this iphone world, it seems like it wants me to favorite INDIVIDUAL #'s

If that's true, that's a huge inconvenience because everyone has 2 or 3 numbers, and some contacts (such as Sungard outbound has 12 phone numbers).

What's the best way to allow certain contacts to ring through overnight?

Just temporarily, I selected anyone in my contacts, but that's not ideal.

Thanks,
Mike
 
I think you can create contact groups and then select the group you want to allow.
 
In iOS 10 DND needs, Text Message Notification on/off switch for Fav people, Also should have a on/off switch for Selected app notifications to come through. These features are already on Android.
 
Add contacts to favorite. Then in the DND setting "allow calls from-favorite"
 
What C DM said: contact groups. If you don't have a Mac, just go into iCloud Contacts and set up the contact group and who you want in it there.

Due to the various election cycles, my iPhone starts to blow-up with robo-calls, polls, etc. So I created a "DND Allow" contact group. Put all the friends and family and other important contacts in there. Only allow calls from them, optionally set "Silence" to "Only while iPhone is locked" for waking hours notifications of e-mail etc. As soon as I'm up, put it into DND manually with that group for "allow" (nights, I have set to "Favorites" and "Silence: Always".

A bit of a hassle, but, works.
 
ganja24 said:
In iOS 10 DND needs, Text Message Notification on/off switch for Fav people, Also should have a on/off switch for Selected app notifications to come through. These features are already on Android.
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People have suggested that since iOS 6 days...and here we are.
 
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