Quiet Hours in Windows 10 Mobile

Anonymous
2016-01-20T18:34:55+00:00

I recently upgraded my phone from the Nokia Lumia 1020 to the Nokia Lumia 950.  It came preloaded with Windows 10 Mobile.  While I am still learning to navigate the operating system on the phone, although it seems easy since I run Windows 10 on my PC, I am having difficulty with using the Quiet Hours function.  Using Windows 8.1 on my old phone allowed me to set up Cortana to block all calls during times when my calendar had been marked as busy.  This was great as I would just put my classes into my schedule and my students never heard my phone unless it was an emergency.  However, now it seems that the only way to set up Quiet Hours is to manually tell the phone to turn on the QH function or set it up for specific times regardless of my schedule.  It seems funny that this function went backwards when everything else went forward.  Is there any way to do it like I did before?

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Anonymous
2016-01-20T22:57:13+00:00

Hello Nyght,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

I appreciate your patience in this regard.

Quiet hours will turn on automatically at the times you've set. But you can still turn it on manually. When you go to Quiet hours setting it will give many flexible options that allows you to customize Quiet hours accordingly. Sat for example, you can set date on which the phone should enable the quite hours along with Start and End time. Basis to which Quiet hours will turn on automatically.

It also allows you to Edit break-through list. Where you can allow the emergency calls from desired contacts. Moreover Cortana will also send text to contacts who aren't allowed through, saying that I'm busy at the moment.

With regard to the desired task or event sync from the Calendar app, I suggest you to post your feedback using Windows feedback app, which will helps us to look into this with future updates. This will helps us to improve your experience.

Keep us posted if you require further assistance.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-13T10:38:14+00:00

    OK, so I should have read further down this thread, but I thought I'd spent enough time and effort trying to find the mysteriously missing quiet hours. Have finally found out how to get to Cortana Notebook. Doh! 😫 I still feel it is all less than intuitive.

    I have a MS Lumia 950xl DS. I don't know your 650, but if it would be helpful, I could give you directions on the 950xl. Let me know if you want directions on it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-11T21:54:09+00:00

    OK, so I should have read further down this thread, but I thought I'd spent enough time and effort trying to find the mysteriously missing quiet hours. Have finally found out how to get to Cortana Notebook. Doh! 😫 I still feel it is all less than intuitive.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-11T21:24:28+00:00

    Like others above, I am not finding quiet hours on my Lumia 650 as it existed on y 520 under Win8.1. Until the update today I couldn't even find anything anywhere as suggested above, including the Cortana Notebook screen illustrated, which simply does not exist for me. Today's update has yielded a Quiet button under Quick Settings but this only appears to be on/off with no time indication. All I want to do, as with the 520, is to have quiet hours 23.00 to 07.00 with a break through list of immediate family and emergency agencies. As it us, I now have to turn off the phone to avoid sleep disturbance. The 650 is a better phone with a poorer performance in the convenience features

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-10-26T17:08:43+00:00

    Sometimes I am wondering if people really understand the problem of this thread. We all know how to set quiet hours, we are simply missing the feature to set quiet hours automatically when a calendar entry is marked as busy, like it was on window phone 8.1.

    All you're asking is for Quiet Hours & Calendar to be in Sync, right?

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