More bad news for Apple today, with the report of yet another bug in their iOS 6 firmware, this time affecting the Do Not Disturb feature.
Do No Disturb is a rather handy feature, that lets you set periods of time where you don't want to worry about incoming call, text or email alerts. Once set, Do Not Disturb stops these alerts, and even stops the screen of your iPhone from lighting up when an alert comes in.
The feature is customisable, so you can allow alerts to bypass the filter, so if you need to be on call you can still receive calls from those important numbers, whilst filtering out other non-essential communications.
However, users of the iPhone running iOS 6 noticed that on New Years Day, the Do Not Disturb settings were not switching off as usual in the morning, meaning some people were sleeping in due to no alar, going off, or missing calls during the day after not realising the feature was still active.
In addition, some users are claiming that the settings to enable DND are not working, so calls and texts are not being filtered during the night. The feature can easily be manually turned off in the settings menu, however some alerts are still not working, even though the setting is off.
Apple has a history of date/time bugs in their iOS, with problems occurring with alarms when clocks change to the time difference in BST/GMT.
The timing of the appearance of the DND bug is rather embarrassing for Apple, as they have just embarked on a TV advertising campaign for the Do Not Disturb option, featuring Venus and Serena Williams.
Rebooting the phone by switching it off and back on again seems to be enough to resolve the problem.
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