topic Re: Do not disturb for one contact group in Android

Do not disturb for one contact group

Banana — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:46:49 GMT

I use my Samsung Galaxy A6 for both work and personal use. I've created a contact group for my work contacts - what I'd like to be able to do is set a Do Not Disturb for that group when I'm not working. I can only see how to set exceptions for the Do Not Disturb feature, but I want the opposite really - to only apply it to a small group of people. Can anyone help?

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Aaron_ — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:02:03 GMT

If you have a group chat on the messages appication, click the 3 dots in the top right once in the group chat, and there should be an option for do not disturb. You can also try WhatsApp, where you can mute the group, which means you will get the messages once you open the app, but you will not be notified by them.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Banana — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:06:04 GMT

Thanks, I want to be able to stop phone calls coming through at weekends and in evenings though. I'm not contacting these people in a group chat or anything, they are from separate companies that contact me individually for work purposes.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Aaron_ — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:14:22 GMT

You can stop incoming calls manually, by going into phone-> settings -> supplementary settings -> call barring. Then you click on incoming calls, and input your code.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Aaron_ — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:14:54 GMT

Let me know if you need more help, or if I didn't explain something clearly.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Banana — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:18:22 GMT

Thanks yeah I don't want to barr anyone, I just want to be unavailable to work contacts at certain hours each day.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Aaron_ — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:23:49 GMT

In phone application, you can go into settings, press on block numbers, and then block ans unblock any numbers whenever you wish.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Banana — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:31:28 GMT

So I'd have to go in and manually block and unblock each individual contact every day? That sounds like a lengthy process for something I was hoping to be able to flick a switch quickly for. What is the point of the groups in the Contacts section if they can't be treated differently in any way other than having their own ringtone?

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Aaron_ — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:34:38 GMT

Apologies, I think I see what you mean now. Please click on the link below for a step by step guide.

https://www.samsung.com/nz/support/mobile-devices/how-to-setup-do-not-disturb-for-different-groups/

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Banana — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:40:24 GMT

As I said in my original post - using the exceptions option is the opposite of what I want. I want to only apply Do Not Disturb to a small group of people! The majority of my contacts are welcome to contact me, I can't set them all as exceptions.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Aaron_ — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:01:38 GMT

Can't you add the contacts you don't want to be contacted by in one group contact, and habe another group contact for the ones that you do want to contact you?

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Banana — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:13:43 GMT

The only exceptions on offer to me are All, Contacts only, and Favourite contacts only. My other groups don't show as options.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Aaron_ — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:53:18 GMT

If I still can't help I might have to pass this on to someone else. @MI5 , @Martin-O2 could you help?

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

MI5 — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:04:28 GMT

It's not anything that I've used myself but sounds like an option would be to add everyone except work contacts to your favourites then set that as the exception group.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

Banana — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:05:23 GMT

I was hoping for it to be a lot simpler than that... But if I did it, would that mean that only phone calls and traditional texts from my Favourites would come through if on Do Not Disturb mode? As in, would I have to spend my whole weekends without notifications from my apps, messenger platforms etc? I'd want to be able to use the rest of my phone 100% as normal, I simply want to block work calls. That is all.

Re: Do not disturb for one contact group

MI5 — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:45:29 GMT

Anything in your exception list would work as normal.