How to turn Do Not Disturb on or off on your iPhone

With Focus settings in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 or later, Do Not Disturb can silence calls, alerts, and notifications. When Do Not Disturb is on, a crescent moon icon appears in the status bar and on your Lock Screen.

Use Control Center to turn Do Not Disturb on or off

  1. Swipe down from the top of your Home Screen to open Control Center.

  2. Tap the Focus button where the Do Not Disturb crescent moon appears. If there is no moon icon, Do Not Disturb is currently turned off.

In iOS 18, you can turn a Focus setting on and off from your Control Center.

3. Tap Do Not Disturb to turn the feature on or off.

You can also ask Siri to turn Do Not Disturb on or off.

If you use Share Across Devices in your Focus settings, a notification that Do No Disturb is on or off will appear on your other Apple devices.

Learn more about Focus settings

Switch to a Lock Screen that you haven't connected to Do Not Disturb

In iOS 16 and later, you can connect a custom Lock Screen wallpaper to a Focus, like Do Not Disturb. When you choose that wallpaper for your Lock Screen, the connected Focus automatically turns on.

  1. On your iPhone Lock Screen, tap and hold the image to open your wallpaper gallery. If you don’t have Face ID turned on, enter your passcode.

  2. Swipe until you land on a wallpaper that you haven't connected to Do Not Disturb.

    When you create or customize a wallpaper in iOS 18, you can connect a specific Focus setting to a wallpaper.

  3. Tap the wallpaper to make it your current Lock Screen.

Focus settings can only be attached to a wallpaper in iOS 16 and later. Learn more about wallpaper.

Change your Do Not Disturb settings

  1. In the Settings app, tap Focus.

  2. Tap Do Not Disturb.

  3. Tap the feature you want to customize:

With Allow Notifications, add people or apps that you want notifications from when using Do Not Disturb.

With Customize Screens, choose a Lock Screen or Home Screen that can turn on Do Not Disturb.

With Set A Schedule, set times for Do Not Disturb to turn on and off each day.

With Focus Filters, customize how certain apps or iPhone features behave while you use Do Not Disturb.

Use Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing with Do Not Disturb in iOS 18.1

In iOS 18.1 with iPhone 16 or an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and later Pro models, you can use Apple Intelligence-powered Focus settings that include Intelligent Breakthrough. Intelligent Breakthrough understands the content of your notifications. When you turn on Intelligent Breakthrough, the feature intelligently allows important notifications to interrupt you and silences any notifications not determined to be important. Any notifications that you specifically allow or silence will still be allowed or silenced.

To turn Intelligent Breakthrough on:

  1. In the Settings app, tap Focus.

  2. Tap the Focus setting you want to check for Intelligent Breakthrough.

  3. Toggle Intelligence Breakthrough on or off.

On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, you can turn on Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing in Settings > Focus.

To use Apple Intelligence features, you need an iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max; any iPad with A17 Pro or M1 and later; or a Mac with M1 or later. Initially, Apple Intelligence is only available on supported devices with Siri that have the device language set to U.S. English.

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