How To Set a Do Not Disturb Schedule on iPhone and Android.

It is sometimes very annoying when you sit to concentrate on some important work and your smartphone starts sending notifications and calls which are not so important for that time. The Do Not Disturb (DND) feature made smartphones bearable. With one tap of the DND icon, incoming calls and notifications are silenced, and only alarms are allowed.

But silence isn’t always golden. You could miss an important call if you forget to switch off DND in the morning. So it’s worth knowing how to set your device to mute automatically every night then find its voice again the next morning.

Here in this post, I am going to explain how you can set a Do Not Disturb Schedule and other basic settings so you can enjoy this feature in a more efficient way.  

How To Set Do Not Disturb Schedule on iPhone.

On iOS 12 (and higher), set your schedule under Bedtime in the Do Not Disturb settings. At bedtime each day the screen will dim, calls will go to voicemail, and notifications will be filed under During Bedtime in the Notification Center. The feature is similar to the Do Not Disturb While Driving setting, which arrived in iOS 11. To turn on Do Not Disturb:

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap on Do Not Disturb to turn it ON.

You can also Turn On DND by launching Control Center and tap Do Not Disturb button which looks like a crescent moon.

To schedule the Do Not Disturb, click on the ‘Scheduled’ option and set the time for which you want to enable this feature.

Warning: By turning on this feature, you may miss important calls and notifications.

If you don’t want to miss any important calls then you can use the ‘Allow Calls From’ option in which you can choose your favorites or specific contact groups. You can also turn on ‘Repeated Calls’ in which you will hear call ringtone if someone tries to call you twice within the last three minutes. Your iPhone treats those calls as important calls even if you have turned on Do Not Disturb mode.

Also read: How To Silence Unknown Calls and Spam from the people you don't know on iPhone.

How To Set Do Not Disturb Schedule on Android.

You’ll need a smartphone running Android 8.1 or above to enjoy this feature. To enable Do Not Disturb on Android:

1. Open Phone Settings and click on 'Sound & Vibration'.
2. Tap on 'Silent/DND' inside the Sound section and select DND.

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Note: You can also turn on this feature directly from the Settings panel by tap and hold of Do Not Disturb (DND) icon. 

Do Not Disturb allow you to create your own schedule time for which you want to enable this feature and it will automatically turn off after the scheduled time. To set schedule time:

1. Click on 'Schedule turn-on time’ inside Silent/DND settings.
2. Click on Add + button shown below and set the Time and Day of the week for which you want to use this feature.  
3. At last, click on the tick mark shown in the upper right corner.  

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You can also tweak other additional settings like if you want to receive calls then you can turn on ‘Allow incoming calls’ and set the contacts list from whom you want to receive calls.

If you want to receive only important calls then you can turn on ‘Notify about repeated calls’ and this feature allow sound for the calls repeated within 15 minutes in Silent mode.

Once you have set up all these settings and schedule the time and day, Do Not Disturb automatically turn on according to the scheduled time day. And all other additional settings help you to use this feature in the best way. You can use Do Not Disturb feature on the phone while driving, sleeping, meditating, or any other important work. 

How To Hide Cookie Notification on a website.

When you visit a new website, the first thing they ask you to “Accept Cookie” notification and to be honest how many of you actually read the information in a cookie warning, rather than just click Agree or Accept to make it go away.

Getting this Cookies pop-up on websites is fine if you are working on a big screen but these notifications become annoying on your phone where they take up the whole screen and at that time few questions may come to your mind that:

What are Cookie on a website?

Since 2011, all websites accessed in the EU are required to tell their visitors that they’re using cookies, explain what those cookies are being used for and get those visitors’ consent to place cookies on their devices.

The main purpose of a cookie on a website is to identify users and to save information about the users for later use. It helps the website to create a customized web page for every user. Cookies are also used to show you personalize ads based on your past behavior on the website.   

Hide Cookie Notification on a website.

Now, you all the why you receive Cookies notifications but the main purpose of you to visit post is how to get rid of these notifications.

On Computer: 

To hide Cookie Notification on your computer, you can use I Don’t Care About Cookies. This excellent extension for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Pale Moon, and the new Edge automatically hides cookies warnings on almost any site you visit in your desktop browser. Alternatively, you can add its filter list to your ad blocker, though this isn’t as effective as the browser add-on.  

On Phone:

If you want to hide Cookie Notification on your Android phone or tablet, you’ll need to use a mobile browser that supports extensions, such as Firefox, or use Opera, which lets you block cookie notices by going to Setting, ‘Ad blocking’ and choosing ‘Block cookie dialogs’. On an iPhone or iPad, your best option is to install AdGuard for Safari and select a cookie-blocking filter such as I Don’t Care About Cookies or Prebake.  

How To Skip Image CAPTCHAs when Sign In into a website.

Whenever you try to sign into a new website, it asks you to prove that you are not a robot by solving CAPTCHAs. However, there are different types of CAPTCHAs given by different websites like some are just one click work, some ask you to fill the letters in the box and some ask you to select all the squares containing traffic lights/cars/bridges/trees/street signs and so on.

Which CAPTCHA is the most difficult to solve and Why?

The image captchas are more difficult to solve and sometimes it irritates the most. To solve this image captchas you have to select square boxes containing traffic lights/cars/vehicle/bridges/trees/street signs and so on.

However, the small and indistinct photos they use can leave you baffled. Is that a vehicle in the distance or house? Does the corner of a signed count as being an image of one? Ultimately, CAPTCHAs are there to help Google (which sources the photos from Street View) improve its own Al but, for the rest of us, they’re a tiresome obstruction.

Why Image CAPTCHAs is used?

These picture-based CAPTCHAs (which stand for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’) are an increasingly common security measure, now that artificial intelligence (AI) bots are able to defeat most text-based ones.

How To Bypass the Image CAPTCHAs?

There are a few methods by which you can try to solve different Image CAPTCHAs more easily.

1. By solving Audio CAPTCHAs.

One way to bypass these square-selecting challenges is to choose an audio CAPTCHA instead, by clicking the headphones button at the bottom of the CAPTCHA widget. Audio CAPTCHAs are fast and easy to solve. Press Play and type the words you hear-you can keep refreshing if you can’t decipher it-then click Verify. It hardly takes ten seconds to solve an Audio CAPTCHA.

2. By using a browser extension.

If you are still finding difficulty in solving Audio CAPTCHAs then you can install the browser extension Buster, click its button in the widget and it will switch to an audio CAPTCHA and solve it for you. Buster is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.

Conclusion

CAPTCHAs are for security purpose but no one like spending their time-solving Image CAPTCHAs. Thankfully, Google analyzes the problems users are facing with Image CAPTCHAs and comes up with reCAPTCHA v3. In this version, the user doesn’t have to select images or type anything inbox, their actions and behavior on a website determine whether they are humans or robots. In this version, there is no human interaction with CAPTCHAs, not even a single click. 

Facebook getting ‘Quiet Mode’ option to turn off push notifications.

Facebook launch a “Quiet Mode” option for its app to turn off all push notifications. According to the company, the feature “Quiet Mode” will remind users that they set this time aside to limit your time in the app.

Facebook launch this feature at a time when most of the people are staying at the home for maintaining the social distance to curb the spread of novel coronavirus. The main aim of Facebook behind launching this app is to bring the right balance while using the app. The feature is now available only for iOS user but the iPhone user in India is yet to receive the update for this new feature. Most probably the Android user will get “Quiet Mode” in May.

However, Facebook has not clearly explained the “Quiet Mode” feature and what type of push notification they are going to turn off. According to the Verge media report, Quiet Mode can be manually activated/deactivated in addition to bringing scheduled. The few claims were made related to the “Quiet Mode” feature is that if the user will try to open the Facebook app while activating the mode, a message will appear reminding them about the mode. It is also claimed that users will not get to see the badges that frequently appear over the Facebook Watch icon inside the app.

Facebook is testing a new “Your Time on Facebook”

adding:

- Quiet Mode for a specific amount of time
- Scheduled Quiet Mode

Facebook told me (via @alexvoica) that they’ve been testing it for a few months and will continue to test and iterate pic.twitter.com/7sPDuP4mrL

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 16, 2020

Facebook explained that they bring this Quiet Mode feature during this Coronavirus pandemic as all are trying to adjust themselves to new daily routines due to the lockdown announced in most of the country.

The feature is going to help the users to spend more time with family and friends and they can focus on other different activities and can get a good sleep without any distraction. It is going to help the user to find the right balance with the time they spend on Facebook and other important activities.  

You can find the “Quiet Mode options by the name “Your Time on Facebook” under the settings & Privacy section.