I hit “notify anyway” and now my friend keeps getting my notifications even on Do Not Disturb

Isabel powers wrote:

"Someone just stole my iPhone with no intention of giving it back to me. I cannot get any message or calls coz I have it on “ Do not disturb”. How to undo this on my iPad?

Need help please."

If you have a Cellular-enabled iPad you can ask your carrier to change the device which the phone number is linked to if you.

To deactivate Do Not Disturb on your iPhone, you can enable "Share across devices" under Settings > Focus. Then turn Do Not Disturb mode off on your iPad. See this link for more information: Set up a Focus on iPad – Apple Support (UK)

Normally, the "Notify anyway" alert should pop up after the earlier message has been read by the recipient.

Once they read it, they will have to delete the conversation. Then the next message that you try to send will again prompt you to "Notify anyway".

This is what is my understanding of this so far.

I just noticed that after the Notification is cleared by the Recepeint then the the next message that you try to send will again prompt you to "Notify anyway".

Someone just stole my iPhone with no intention of giving it back to me. I cannot get any message or calls coz I have it on “ Do not disturb”. How to undo this on my iPad?

Need help please.

you can’t do anything about it because it’s THEIR settings. When you hit notify anyway it overrides their settings to send the message. Tell them to turn it off then back on. I know that sounds like a joke but that’s what i usually do, it takes 2 seconds to just click it then click it again. hope this helps :))

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Iam wondering more about it little still. But I researched the problem online.

Found out that is said that they put there phone on these setting like focus mode and or do not disturb on.

but doesn’t mean they blocked you.

my guess is the so when you hit send anyway when they silenced there phone,they will get the message it will over ride the message so they can hear it,vs it sending and it go unheard but they still get the message iether way. Hope that makes sense. But if you google I send message to friend anyway on silence or send message to friend on silent. See what results you get.

If not delete even if they force close the messaging app (By swiping up). Then also the next message that you try to send will again prompt you to "Notify anyway".

I have the same bug. It doesn’t prompt me again the “Notify anyway”, even after restarting all my devices, creating a new focus etc. It only worked once today.