QUIET HOURS FOR NOTIFICATIONS

Organization Name

apple inc.

Inventor(s)

Imran A. Chaudhri of San Francisco CA US

Gregory Novick of San Francisco CA US

Scott Forstall of Los Altos CA US

Morgan Grainger of Nashville TN US

George R. Dicker of Sunnyvale CA US

Tyler Hawkins of San Jose CA US

QUIET HOURS FOR NOTIFICATIONS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250155983 titled 'QUIET HOURS FOR NOTIFICATIONS

Original Abstract Submitted

in some implementations, a computing device can be configured to automatically turn off notifications when generating a notification would cause a disturbance or be unwanted by a user. the device can be configured with quiet hours during which notifications that would otherwise be generated by the computing device can be suppressed. in some implementations, quiet hours can be configured as a time period with a start time and an end time. in some implementations, quiet hours can be derived from application data. for example, calendar data, alarm clock data, map data, etc. can be used to determine when quiet hours should be enforced. in some implementations, the device can be configured with exceptions to quiet hour notification suppression. in some implementations, the user can identify contacts to which the quiet hours notification suppression should not be applied.