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
    2016-06-16T18:20:51+00:00

    It's easy to find QH in WP 10, although I question the wisdom of parking it under Cortana. The real issue is not that, though. It's about QH loosing its most valuable features such as automatically turning itself on in synch with busy tagged calendar events. It works wonderfully on WP 8.1, but the option is non existent on WP 10. I had to roll back to WP 8.1, mainly to retrieve this particular feature. By the way, my old school Blackberry does this without any problems. I hope Microsoft picks up these little things to move up from a mediocre phone maker to a top of the line one. I for one is somewhat disappointed as a loyal Microsoft customer.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-16T19:07:58+00:00

    Guess I don't totally understand issues on the 735 as it seems to work right on my 550.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-06-17T01:11:41+00:00

    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.               

    As I was sitting in church on Sunday, someone's phone started ringing and my first thought was, "That's annoying... that person apparently doesn't have a Windows phone" since I know that my phone blocks the phone from ringing when an event is marked as "busy" on my calendar (or so I thought).  Literally 5 minutes later, my phone starts ringing and in addition to being embarrassed, my first thought was "What the heck!?!?  Is the blocking feature broken?!?!"   Well, it's not broken, it's gone... hence the reason I found this post.   I swear my 950 XL had the "block when busy" feature at one time and it wasn't just a WP8.1 feature.  Regardless, it's gone now and that doesn't sit well with me.

    What's also annoying is that there's no way to know if the feature will be back.  At least with Visual Studio, Microsoft makes use of the "User Voice" web site to let customers vote on features to add or bring back if they were removed.  There is a User Voice site for Windows Phone, but it's disabled:

    http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-06-21T03:27:39+00:00

    Quiet hours is enabled in Cortana's notebook.

    you can set times and breakthrough list there.

    Wow, thank you, for such a simple answer. Much appreciated. Thank you.

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