Phone is basically vibrate mode 24/7 the Emergency Bypass toggle setting on each contact set, allows me to hear notifications for text or call for a select few while not allowing the rest. I’ve yet to see this feature on another phone. Just one of the things why I love iOS.
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How do you milk sheep? Bring out a new iPhone and charge $1000 for it.
It’s a feature on Samsung phones. You can even set it to only ring if the call is repeated, which is nice - a real emergency will try to call twice.
Where is this setting
I use this coupled with focus modes. Only wife and parents are on emergency bypass, but I do find it an incredibly useful feature.
I don’t want to be woken up by a late night text. I have it turned on for ringtone for a couple people but not for text tone.
Agreed, this is an excellent top-tier feature. My phone is always on silent, my watch takes notification vibrations instead of it as well so it’s pretty much always silent. The only person who gets the added bonus of my phone making a noise, especially when I’m asleep, is my partner.
This “feature” is on other phones. Just different name and setting. They just don’t use such a dramatic name as Apple does.
It has been available on Android for some time now.
I just set certain contacts in certain focuses. Basically my dnd nobody can get through with a sound like if I’m at a movie or a funeral or something. But sleep focus and work focus I let my family get though in case of an emergency.
How does your phone know if they’re calling because of an emergency? They might just be calling to say hi
Selected contacts with this toggle’d on when they call it’ll simply ring overriding the silent/vibrate only mode.
Whoa, I had no idea. I relied on my favourites list.
They didn’t even try to change the ui. Truly a 3 trillions dollars company moment
I hate to be that person but Android has it too, not sure how long but I had it on my last one before switching to iOS again.
Good! It’s a great feature. I use it for a contact that is a list of number that might call me when I’m on call for work. Turn it on at the start and then off again when I’m done.
Not the same on the droids. So far as I can tell.
iOS has the lists you can set on a focus and all the messing about. True.
But this feature, at least for me, is tagged to a contact. It lives with the contact across all my devices. And it means I can’t accidentally make any new settings changes, modes, mute switches, vibrate, no vibrate, cinema, focus, sleep, driving, anything not now not ever not old not new and not yet to be discovered way to accidentally have that call not ring for that person. Their call will ring. On all my devices that are on.
That’s a separate peace of mind. I can’t mess up a setting so that I won’t hear or get their call.
From this post on stackexchange I guess it’s been around for at least 6 years.
Works very well if your VIP contacts rarely ever actually call you (as opposed to just messaging you or whatever). It’s a handy option to have.
My mom knows exactly what hours I work and yet she calls at random times, often just to say hi or see how I’m doing. She hates texting and exclusively calls. I know she has good intentions but I could never turn this setting on for her, my phone would be ringing in the middle of meetings all the time.
This is a feature on every phone, android or iPhone