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
    2017-10-27T04:04:08+00:00

    Please give the entire string. I could not find any setting by those words. Also I could not locate the string suggested by mesbahjavid could not be located on my Alcatel fierce.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-27T01:17:27+00:00

    OK, I am remembering that I disabled Cortana running in background due to consuming battery irrationally killing it in no time. I hope tat issue is fixed in recent updates.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-27T01:13:39+00:00

    I am running Windows Mobile 10. I select Let Windows manage background usage for Cortana.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-10-26T23:29:35+00:00

    Mystery solved: I had previously disabled Cortana to run in background but when I noticed Quiet Hours stopped working I searched for Cortana to see its background status but could not find it in the list of apps. It took me more than 6 months to find it hiding under Settings>>System>>Battery>>Usage>>All Apps and after resetting it to run in background...tada!...Quiet hours came back to normal. Darn! Cortana not running in background was available only under <<All Apps>>...Thanks God I did not dump my Lumia 950XL in the Seine!

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