Matthew's Journal

My first Android device was a Samsung Galaxy S2, back in 2012. If I remember rightly, the do not disturb setting was quite flexible - you selected it from the drop-down and then could set things like vibrate / alarms only / priority contacts only / absolute silence all from that bit of UI (which matches reasonably well with the official docs for Android <=8.1.

Nowadays[0], the only thing you can do immediately is turn Do Not Disturb on and control how long it'll be on for (until you turn off / for X hours / until alarm time (if one is currently set)). Sure, you can long-press and end up in the relevant bit of settings, but that's a relatively unfriendly UI, and it sets how DND behaves until you go poking through the settings UI again.

I want something more like the old behaviour (and I don't think I'm just being neophobic) - particularly, I want it to be easy to do things like: "I'm going to bed, only let priority contacts / repeat callers disturb me" and "I'm at choir, I want absolute silence no matter what" and "Vibrations only" from the main screen (or, ideally, the lock screen). I also want it to be obvious/easy to see what DND is going to do (so I don't accidentally enable the wrong sort of DND when turning it on).

Is there some tool to do this that I'm missing? It's not even clear if this sort of setting-tweaking can be done from an app (I can't immediately find a flutter package to do so, for example)...

[0] I think the switch may have been when I got my FP2, but it might have been a software update instead