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Are you tired of hearing your iPhone chime with notifications throughout the day? This can be distracting and cause you to pick up your phone when you don’t need to. We’ll show you a variety of options to combat this, from muting a particular app to silencing notifications based on your location.
Use Your iPhone’s Silent Mode to Silence Notifications
While you can permanently silence notification sounds from chosen apps by heading to your iPhone’s Settings, you can alsouse your iPhone’s Silent mode. This prevents your phone from making any noise for notifications (except alarms), though media sounds from music, video, and game apps will still play.
To put your iPhone in Silent mode, flick the Ring/Silent switch on the left side of your device so it shows an orange indicator. If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max and havecustomized the Action buttonto do something other than enter Silent mode, you can toggle Silent mode using a button in Control Center. You can also head toSettings > Sound & Hapticsand toggle the switch next toSilent Mode.
Disable Notifications for All or Specific Apps
Unfortunately, other than using a Focus mode, you may’t disable notifications from all your apps with a single tap. Thus, the only way to disable notifications for all apps is to manually select each app and adjust its notification settings. Here’s what you need to do:
Temporarily Mute App-Specific Notifications
If you would rather mute notifications from a certain app for a limited amount of time rather than disabling all notifications from the app entirely, here’s how to do so:
Silence Text Notifications on Your iPhone
If you’d like to silence incoming notifications from the Messages app, go toSettings > Notifications. Now, scroll down and tapMessages, then tapSoundsunderAlertsand set it toNone.
You can also silence message notifications from certain people. To do so, head to theMessagesapp and open the conversation with the person you’d like to silence. Tap theirprofile pictureat the top of the screen and toggle on the switch forHide Alerts. Alternatively, you can swipe left on the conversation you want to silence and tapMute.
Use Focus Modes to Silence iPhone Notifications From Specific Contacts
Do you have an annoying friend who texts you constantly? Fortunately, you can set up a custom Focus mode to silence texts and messages from them. Here’s what you need to do:
You’re not quite done yet. Unless you schedule your Focus mode to automatically turn on at a designated time, you’ll need to manually enable it every time you want to silence notifications from that person.
To do so, swipe down from the upper-right corner of your screen toopen the Control Center on your iPhone. TapFocusto see all the preset Focus modes along with the ones you’ve created. All you need to do is choose theFocus modeyou just created.
Use Focus Modes to Silence Notifications Based on Your Location
Attending an important meeting or heading to the library for an important cramming session? You won’t be able to focus properly if you keep getting pings. To avoid that, you canschedule a Focus mode on your iPhoneto enable automatically based on your location by following the steps below.
Now, your Focus mode will automatically turn on and off every time you arrive and leave the location you set.
Use Do Not Disturb to Silence Notifications on Your iPhone
You can also prevent all disruptions from your iPhone using Do Not Disturb. Here’s what you need to do toset up and enable Do Not Disturb on your iPhone:
If you’re specifically interested in preventing notifications while you’re sleeping, consider setting up the Sleep focus mode from this menu.
As you can see, you have several options to silence notifications on your iPhone, with the easiest being putting your device in Silent mode. However, if you want to automate the process or want to mute specific contacts, the Do Not Disturb and custom Focus modes can be handy. Apple’s Messages app also makes it easy to silence text notifications from annoying contacts.
Whether you’d like tocontrol annoying iPhone notificationsor enhance your productivity, the tips above will come in handy!
