Also, if you ever want to just turn on the do not disturb function without a schedule or at unscheduled times, you can always go into settings and change the status to "on" in notifications. That sounds like a good work around to me. I agree that there is room to grow. It would be nice for instance to set different quiet hours on weekdays verses weekends. However, what we have is a good start and will hopefully only get better.
Wayne On 9/30/12, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > I can certainly see where integration Do Not Disturb with the Calendar > could > have a lot of benefits for certain people. > > For now keep in mind that you can always just flick the mute switch for a > meeting, in iOS 6 muting the phone will not only mute the ringer and > alerts, > but it will also ensure Voiceover will not start babbling away if you have > an alert or push notification. It truly mutes the phone and that is a very > nice improvement. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of James Lockwood > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 5:51 PM > To: iphone group > Subject: Disappointed in do not disturb functionality of iPhone five > > When I first heard about the scheduling function in do not disturb on the > iPhone five I thought that it would allow you to schedule the phone to > ignore calls at certain .periods during a certain day. However the > application only allowed you to establish quiet hours during which calls > will be ignored every single day. However the do not disturb function would > be a lot more useful if it allowed you to set different times for different > days. For example if I know I have a court appearance tomorrow at 2 o'clock > it would be very useful for the phone to have a function in which I can > schedule the program to block calls during that time. Then the following > day > if I have a meeting at 1 o'clock I can set the phone to ignore calls for > that time as well. It could be a checkmark option when scheduling an event > in the calendar. Therefore you would never have to worry about your phone > accidentally being left on and going off in an important meeting. When you > schedule the meeting you would have already told your phone to ignore calls > for that time. > I don't know if anyone can develop an application which would do this so we > don't have to wait for the iPhone six for this functionality. However if > someone does develop such an application I would be willing to pay quite a > bit for it. > > > > James H. Lockwood > 574-274-4791 > [email protected] > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- Follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wcmerritt My websites: www.wayneism.com www.whitecaneday.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
