Customize Do Not Disturb Schedules on Android 10
The new Android 10 is available already for select devices; my Google Pixel 3a received the update some hours ago and it went through without issues. One of the features that Google improved in Android 10 is Do Not Disturb.
I have configured my Android devices to receive call and message notifications from select Android contacts only to reduce noise. The option remains but Android 10 introduces preferences to customize Do Not Disturb behavior even further by enabling customizations for individual schedules.
Long-tap on the Do Not Disturb toggle to open the Settings on Android 10. The main page lists options to configure Do Not Disturb; you may set up rules for calls and messages, and allow or disallow certain events and actions such as the playing of media sounds from firing in that mode.
A tap on schedules displays custom presets, e.g. Sleeping or Event. You can create your own schedules with a tap on the option or configure the existing ones instead.
The feature is useful to Android users who use different Do Not Disturb schedules. Here is an example: you use one Do Not Disturb schedule at night to make sure that your sleep is not interrupted by someone's Facebook post, and another for when you are at work.
While you may prefer that some settings are shared across both Do Not Disturb schedules, you may want to use custom settings for others. You could switch the allow calls option from starred or none at all to contacts to make sure you get your boss' calls, or enable alarms, reminders, and events in the Work rules.
Each schedule uses the default Do Not Disturb behavior by default. The new Android 10 features allows you to change the defaults. In other words: schedules no longer share the behavior but may differ from one another in certain aspects.
- Tap on the preferences icon next to a schedule.
- Select "Do Not Disturb behavior" on the page that opens.
- On the next page, select "Create custom settings for this schedule".
You may override the following Do Not Disturb settings:
- Allow calls (from anyone, contacts only, starred contacts only, don't allow calls, allow repeat callers, configure starred contacts).
- Allow messages (from anyone, contacts only, starred contacts only, don't allow any messages, configure starred contacts).
- Allow alarms
- Play media sounds
- Allow touch sounds
- Allow reminders
- Allow events
- Restrict notifications (no sound from notifications, no visuals or sound from notifications, custom).
Closing Words
How many Android users are aware of the fact that Do Not Disturb supports schedules? The new customization options may be useful to power users and users who need different notification settings for different times of the day, week, or other time periods.
The feature is easy to set up and since you may create as many schedules as you like, should provide users with more options in that regard.
Now you: Do you use Do Not Disturb?
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?