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
    2016-12-10T13:04:31+00:00

    Why is it when I put "Quiet Hours" into "Find Settings" I get "No Results".

    I am 62 years old and a was a loyal customer. Ialso have a background in human factor engineering and am a telecommunications engineer. I am WASTING so much time with some basic things. They are oversights made by the project managers at Microsoft. They have a corporate culture at Microsoft and many young people who work for them that do not realize and over look what people really go through after their so called product updates and upgrades: the loss of important features BEING ABLE TO TURN THE SOUND OFF ON YOUR PHONE WHILE YOU SLEEP AND NOT HAVE TO REMEMBER TO TURN IT ON WHEN I WAKE UP SO I DON'T MISS CALLS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO INDIVIDUALS. Oh, I'm all tired of wasting my time reading their PR sounding responses. They are so often long and windy. They should be ashamed of wasting our time this way, but it is no part of their culture, and young people want to play the corporate speak game so they can fit in and not be rejected by their employer or cohorts. I see this too often. By the way, time is all we really have in this life. It's precious.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-10T13:11:00+00:00

    Thanks for the long winded, obsequious response. NOW HOW DO I SET THE TIMES TO AUTOMATICALLY TURN QUIET HOR ON OR OFF DURING CERTAIN HOURS?

    Sorry if I seemed harsh, but the only thing we have in this life is time. Please don't go "snowflake on me".

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-10T14:04:09+00:00

    Why is it when I put "Quiet Hours" into "Find Settings" I get "No Results".

    I am 62 years old and a was a loyal customer. Ialso have a background in human factor engineering and am a telecommunications engineer. I am WASTING so much time with some basic things. They are oversights made by the project managers at Microsoft. They have a corporate culture at Microsoft and many young people who work for them that do not realize and over look what people really go through after their so called product updates and upgrades: the loss of important features BEING ABLE TO TURN THE SOUND OFF ON YOUR PHONE WHILE YOU SLEEP AND NOT HAVE TO REMEMBER TO TURN IT ON WHEN I WAKE UP SO I DON'T MISS CALLS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO INDIVIDUALS. Oh, I'm all tired of wasting my time reading their PR sounding responses. They are so often long and windy. They should be ashamed of wasting our time this way, but it is no part of their culture, and young people want to play the corporate speak game so they can fit in and not be rejected by their employer or cohorts. I see this too often. By the way, time is all we really have in this life. It's precious.

    Id set it up on my lumia950  a long time ago and having read  your post I   had  a quick look  to  find the setting again I found the answer in one of the first posts on this thread.

     so to  save you time and frustration   launch  Cortana and then  click on the  hamburger icon on the top left    the select  Cortana notebook and the quiet hours option there. once you  select quiet hours and enable it you can then  set the   times you want it to automatically  activate  it and also  edit the breakthrough lists.

     I hope that helps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-12-10T18:46:53+00:00

    Why is it when I put "Quiet Hours" into "Find Settings" I get "No Results".

    I am 62 years old and a was a loyal customer. Ialso have a background in human factor engineering and am a telecommunications engineer. I am WASTING so much time with some basic things. They are oversights made by the project managers at Microsoft. They have a corporate culture at Microsoft and many young people who work for them that do not realize and over look what people really go through after their so called product updates and upgrades: the loss of important features BEING ABLE TO TURN THE SOUND OFF ON YOUR PHONE WHILE YOU SLEEP AND NOT HAVE TO REMEMBER TO TURN IT ON WHEN I WAKE UP SO I DON'T MISS CALLS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO INDIVIDUALS. Oh, I'm all tired of wasting my time reading their PR sounding responses. They are so often long and windy. They should be ashamed of wasting our time this way, but it is no part of their culture, and young people want to play the corporate speak game so they can fit in and not be rejected by their employer or cohorts. I see this too often. By the way, time is all we really have in this life. It's precious.

    Thanks for the post. You spoke my mind, except that I think the MS corporate culture has migrated substantially from Bill Gates' times. This includes, in my mind, major shifts in values, priorities, target market, etc. I lost my loyalty last week, when I (hesitantly) switched to Android after having waited (wasted) a year for WP10 to get its acts together. Found myself stuck in WP8.1 with its shrinking app population. Simple things matter to some of us, who I think are being excluded from MS' new market focus. All I was hoping to see restored was the dropped feature of turning the phone to "quite" during busy calendar events. Even my old school Blackberry has this function. First, I thought it was an oversight. Then decided to bring it to MS attention like a loyal soldier, through different means, including this forum. They cared less, and I for one, am gone. Good luck to you all, and so long my beloved Nokia brand!

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