How Do I Temporarily Turn off Notifications?
Turning off all notifications on your iPhone is easy. Enable the Do Not Disturb feature on your iPhone either through Settings or the Control Panel. Do Not Disturb will turn off all the notifications that come into your phone, including app notifications, mail and message notifications, and call notifications.
If that’s not what you had in mind, there are a few other ways to manage your notifications, too.
How Do You Turn off Notification on iPhone?
Although using Do Not Disturb to turn off your notifications can be temporary (when you’re ready, turn off Do Not Disturb to begin receiving notifications again), you can also turn off your notifications temporarily just for specific apps.
For example, if you want to receive calls and messages, but you don’t want to receive other types of notifications from a specific app, turn them off temporarily (or permanently) through Settings.
Go to Settings > Notifications. Here you can alter notifications for any app. Tap the app to adjust notifications as you need. Choose the options that best suit you for the notifications for the app. Choose to disable Allow Notifications or change where and how notifications, sounds, and badges appear. Once you’ve finished making your selections, close out of Notifications. When you’re ready to get the notifications again, follow these instructions to change the settings again.
Change Notifications Settings From an Incoming Notification
There is also an alternative to using this method to silence notifications for specific apps. If you receive a notification from an app for which you want to turn off notifications, adjust notification settings directly from the notification.
Once you’ve finished making your selections, close out of Notifications. When you’re ready to get the notifications again, follow these instructions to change the settings again.
On the Notifications screen that appears when you wake your iPhone, slowly slide a notification to the left. A menu should appear on the right side of the notification. Select Manage. On the screen that appears, select Deliver Quietly or Turn Off. If you choose Deliver Quietly, the notification will still appear in your Notification Center, but it won’t make noise or vibrate your phone. If you choose Turn Off, the notifications will be turned off completely until you turn them back on. You also can tap Settings to be taken to the same settings screen you used above to turn off notifications.
How Do You Turn off All Notifications on iPhone?
The most common way to silence all notifications on iPhone at this time is to use Do Not Disturb, which is detailed above. But if you truly want quiet time, you can also flip the Silence switch on the left side of your phone to Off (It will show red when Off and silver when On).
You also can tap Settings to be taken to the same settings screen you used above to turn off notifications.
This action silences all notification to vibration, and they will remain on vibrate until you move the switch back to the On position.
What Happens When You Turn off Notifications on iPhone?
If you’re stressed about turning off the notifications on your phone, don’t be. While turning them off either using Do Not Disturb or using one of the methods to change the notifications for individual apps, you can always turn them back on when you’re ready.
And if you think you may forget to turn them back on, you can always set a reminder to do it later.
