The new iOS 6 Do Not Disturb, Reming Me Later And Respond With Message Features
Until now, the Do Not Disturb feature in iOS had to be emulated through third party apps. Since iOS 6, this feature has become a native part of the operating system. This way all incoming notifications can be filtered if the Do Not Disturb feature is active. Should you choose to do so, you can enable the Do Not Disturb feature to remain active all the time. You can predefine which of your caller can reach you on the iPhone and which can not. The same feature also works in conjunction with Messages, Facebook and Twitter among other types of notifications. Such alerts won’t make your phone ring and will not make the screen light up, but they will be there, registered in the Notifications Center for you to later view.
Calls that are incoming can be filtered by various criteria: No One, Favorites, Everyone and Groups. If by any chance there’s an emergency and a caller repeatedly calls you in a time frame of under three minutes, that call will go through. You an also set reminders. Slide the gripper button that appears on the screen in the event of a call that is incoming and you can reject that call by sending a notification message. Something in the lines of “Call me later please”. You can also let the operating system alert you in an hour of the incoming call you had a while back.
There are also location-based reminders. Whenever you leave a WiFi area defined as you home in iOS 6, you can get a reminder. Whenever you enter the WiFi zone known as your workplace, you can set iOS 6 to send another reminder.
Such features should have been present in IO 6 a long time ago. What Apple did was wait for third party applications to come up with features, study the market, see what people crave for then implement those features natively in their own operating system. he cost of this for the user was that such features had to wait a period of time before getting implemented and users relied on third party apps to get hold of this features and be able to use them. But now that they’re native, that’s another story.
