If you’re going to put out an ad, you’re at the very least going to want to check that the product you’re shouting about actually works properly.
You see, Apple has just launched an ad for iOS 6’s Do Not Disturb feature, which allows you to silence calls, alerts and notifications between scheduled times.
The trouble is, for many iPhone users waking up on New Year’s Day – and also January 2 – the feature is still showing as enabled (with the crescent-moon icon displayed at the top of the screen) despite being outside of the scheduled times. This means users won’t be alerted to potentially important incoming calls or announcements, depending on how they’ve configured the feature.
While Apple might argue it was simply helping us to get some extra sleep on January 1 following the likely excesses of the previous evening, it appears the bug is not going away, with some iOS users reporting the continuation of the issue into January 2 (and quite possibly beyond).
The problem came to light via posts on a number of forums, though it appears it’s not affecting all iOS users.
As for the ad, talk about bad timing. The 30-second production (below), released on January 1, features tennis stars – and sisters – Venus and Serena Williams. It involves narrator Jeff Daniels having “a really cool dream” about him playing table tennis against the pair. It’s so cool, he says, that he doesn’t want to be disturbed. Cue explanation of the Do Not Disturb feature.
Until Apple issues a fix, users of Do Not Disturb affected by the bug will have to operate it manually by jumping over to the Settings menu on their iOS device and switching it on and off there.
[Featured image: Oria / Shutterstock]
Why would iFools choose to not be disturbed – if Apple told them to rub their naked nipples across the screen they would do so, en masse, no questions asked.
And act as if it were the hippest trend in trendville.
Android had this Do Not Disturb feature awhile ago.
Yes that is where Apple got the idea, of course in the Apple implementation you are locked into Apples idea of how it should work. No you can’t change it, not you can’t remove it. In Apples world the user is stupid and should be protected from themselves.
One mistake after another…
shit happens, it’s software… deal with it
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oh whats wrong with it? I have had mine kind of stuck on Do Not Disturb the past week or so….not sure how to fix it. Cant say I’ve tried though, TBH.
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why choose to not be disturbed? If you have to ask, you obvioiusly dont need to know. Sigh, everywhere you go there are people just blindly hating on Mac users & its so bad that it makes you really feel sorry for the people saying it all. Like…what is Wrong with someone’s life that they have to go out of their way so often to Apple-bash?
I guess all the aggravation that comes with using Windows would do that to you. I’m dead serious here. Its nuts – just look anywhere on the web & youll see it.
99.9% of them have literally no idea.
I hate apple and microsoft. I use linux. What’s your theory behind that?
The most hackable mobile OS is… wait for it: Android, followed by any Windows phone that relies upon an untested Mobile OS designed to mirror its untested Desktop OS – unless of course you count the untold number of novice users who downloaded the consumer preview of Win 8 as valid testers, in that case, you probably didn’t realize that hackers downloaded beta versions of Win 8 from the partner site, and torrents months before the consumer preview became available for consumer downloads. Even Bill Gates is condemning MS’s product offerings. IE, java scripts, and Silverlight all have vulnerabilities that are ridiculously easy to hack, reverse hack, and data mine from mobile hotspots, that can be bought anonymously, with cash and are cheap enough to throw away, after infecting the Win 8 phone and the corresponding Win 8 laptop/tablet/desktop when data sources are shared through Skydrive, dropbox, or Office 365. Android mobile OS’s are riddled with flash security flaws, latitude enabled accounts, end-user ignorance – those who still think they need an app killer app downloaded from a market place (google play) that is notoriously lax in both its app approval process, and its ability/interest in policing problematic apps that have been reported by countless duped users. How many Mobile OS updates (not to mention security patches) has Google delivered since it’s inception, and exactly how many devices are there that are manufactured by companies other than Google that hold/have licensing agreements with Google that allow unparalleled access to the Android code? For that matter, how many manufacturers are there that have licensing agreements with Google for the Android OS? It’s simple logic: the higher the number of licensed manufacturers (unregulated by international law and its inevitable red-tape) the easier it is to hack systems made by those companies – especially those with bloatware pre-installed which are notoriously difficult to remove; these products are Android in name only – and most certainly can not be considered Google products. No matter what cutesy name Google gives the newest Mobile OS redesign: Gingerbread, Jelly Bean.. the fact remains that hackers regularly copy icons from popular Android apps on Google Play, label the infected installation code with a similar, extremely similar, name as the original, popular, legitimate app, and a huge number of unsuspecting laymen users download and install the spoofed app and wonder why nothing seems to happen when they try and use/open the app their friends and their trusted media sources have raved about with the highest of recommendations. Example? Look at the “App Killer” app on Google Play..if you download the illegitimate app you’ll immediately notice an increase in system services and resource allocation, not the promised battery saving fewer services, resources and apps running in the background – and that even those apps and services you expressly “killed” return immediately once you move on to a new task/app. Then look at the default Wi-Fi settings and come back and continue the discussion about iOS vs any other mobile platform (except perhaps the RIM Mobile OS) and I suspect you will see that other being a huge data collection tool for Google, the Android Mobile OS is about as secure as AIM 4.0… Oh, and btw ALL mobile phones have always had a Do Not Disturb feature – the off button. Do not disturb, as its been discussed here is a suggestion-use feature that doesn’t keep the typical end user with the “do not disturb” service engaged from constantly checking their phone for possible exceptions… If trendy means secure, reliable, aesthetically pleasing, easy to use, a smaller, time saving learning curve, and the quality assured as a direct result of Apple’s refusal to license iOS, then yeah Macs (all product lines) are the hippest trends in trendville – and if it protected my investment against the constant intellectual property infringement and from the poor quality imitations of Apple products by foreign companies (think Samsung for one), then I would rub my naked nipples across the screen, no questions asked and using your flash permissions and skype connection I’d send the screenshot to your desktop and see if you could remove it, let alone follow it back to its source. Try and hack iOS, get a compromised app through iTunes, or otherwise access my iPhone, MacBook Air or 27″ iMac without immediate detection and the attack you envisioned blocked, and eventually turned to attack your system instead. Your wishes and hopes that either the Android OS or Win 8 mobile OS can compete over the long term against a product of superior quality, billions in reserve, liquid capital, and millions of die hard, addicted fans is irrational and quite frankly a bit sad. I love many google products, the true innovation produced by the company, it’s policy and culture of “if you can dream it, you can achieve it”, and it’s fearless foray into untapped and untested markets. Likewise, I can’t help but respect the impact that MS has had on the entire industry, and I count both companies on my list of the most inspirational organizations on a personal level. That said, to date, neither comes close to the company at the top of my list: Apple. I don’t mean to insult anyone’s personal preference (as after all opinions are given all of us get to decide our own Mobile OS preference), to the contrary, I am grateful for forums like this that encourage courteous dialogue, intellectual discourse and the inevitable disagreement. Hopefully all Mobile OS products will improve as a result.
So many holes in your argument to bother disputing.
Manufacturers — mostly Samsung — shipped 136 million Android-based phones in the third quarter of 2012, capturing 75 percent market share. The only other growing phone ecosystem, iOS, shipped 27 million units, taking 15 percent market share.
This is funny. I just went to Apple Monday and changed out my phone because it was stuck in DND mode and it wouldn’t connect to my home WiFi. The Apple tech never mentioned there were issues.
They are geniuses after all.