emergency bypass not working

it just stopped working idk why i used to get notis with dnd on but i don’t now

im on ios 16.2

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 16

Posted on Dec 13, 2022 06:20 PM

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1 reply

Chris_D13

Community Specialist

Dec 15, 2022 03:35 PM in response to spobbcouch

Greetings spobbcouch,

To help isolate the behavior, ensure Emergency Bypass is turned on for your contacts in the Contacts app to allow the contacts to reach you when a Focus is turned on.

Check out those steps here:

Use Focus on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

"You can also allow certain contacts to reach you in the event of an emergency, even when you have a Focus set up.

Open Contacts and select a contact.
Tap Edit, tap Ringtone or Text Tone, then turn on Emergency Bypass.
Tap Done."

If Emergency Bypass is turned on for the contacts already, then reach out to Apple Support directly to help investigate the behavior. You can use the following link to reach out: Contact Apple Support

Kind regards.

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