re: iOS 8 and Do Not Disturb

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Am I misunderstanding the DND feature? I have it turned on for a group text I am in

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The purpose of DND is to halt all sounds from your phone either manually or at certain times of the night. It's pretty convenient for people who need to screen their phone calls in the middle of the night (read: don't want your drunk college friends waking you at 0300, but would like to get calls from your answering service for work). It's also nice for getting rid of ESPN or Words With Friends or whatever other app you may allow push notifications with sound on but would like shut off at a certain time, typically when you're trying to sleep. So I set mine to DND from around 2200-0400. I rarely get useful texts from coworkers from then that can't wait until I wake up shortly after that. I also typically allow coworkers to get through on the first call.

It shouldn't/isn't designed to stop you from getting notifications from anything that attempts to make noise on your phone during the scheduled/manually "DND" hours.