On all occasions, our mobile phone has sounded at the most opportune moment, a situation that can lead to anger or other more serious problems. To forget about this, we are going to show you the best methods to control when your mobile is on sound or we want to automatically mute it , being able to choose between various forms of automation.
With this, in addition to saving us problems, we will avoid having to pay attention to the sound settings on our mobile and let the technology itself perform its functions. Android mobiles make things much easier with its do not disturb mode, a tool that is very complete but has restrictions that we will also solve.
Set do not disturb mode on Android
The easiest way and for which we do not need any additional tool is the do not disturb option. This option allows us to choose between days and hours of the week to establish when our mobile phone enters in silence or conversely when it is in sound. The functions are many and varied, so we will explain how to do it step by step:
- First of all we go to our Settings on our Android mobile.
- We look for the Sound option and then “Do not disturb”.
- We select our options for calls or messaging applications.
- We can also select exceptions for alarms or multimedia sound.
- Finally we can choose how we will receive these silenced notifications, being able to choose not to show them or notifications.
Silent mobile for days and hours
Once we have chosen how we want the do not disturb mode to work, we have to choose when it will work every day . This will be the programming that will allow us to live without worrying about sound using the schedule method.
- Within the do not disturb mode we will have to enter “Schedules”.
- Here inside we will have some preset modes or we can create our own.
- First we will choose the name of the programming and start editing it.
- We choose the days of the week where we want it to work.
- Then we select the start and end time.
- We can choose if the alarm cancels the do not disturb mode.
- We can also create specific behaviors for this programming different from the rest of the do not disturb options.
Silence the mobile according to the place or WiFi
We give way to a series of more advanced but simple to use options, with which we can help ourselves with IFTTT, a programming service that allows us to automate actions on our Android mobile as well as other services. The first thing we need to do is download the app from the app store. Then we log in with our Google account linked to our Android smartphone and grant all the necessary permissions or it will not work.
How to mute the phone by location
The GPS of our mobile phone gains new functionality, allowing us to be the key that we will use through IFTTT to decide where the sound will automatically be muted on the smartphone. We explain the steps you must follow:
- After having logged in with our account and activated all permissions, we tap on “Get more”.
- In the search engine we write “mute Android work” although we are not really going to use it only at work.
- We drag our finger to connect this IFTTT action and activate the new permissions.
- Click on “Goin to Location” and select in the map search engine the place where our mobile will be silent.
- We choose if we want to activate or deactivate the vibration and click on “Done”.
How to mute your mobile when connecting to WiFi
In case we prefer that our mobile is put in silence or in sound depending on the WiFi to which it is connected, we have another IFTTT programming module designed for it. The steps are the following:
- Click on “Get more” and search in the search engine “mute my phone office WiFi”.
- We select the option and slide the button to connect it.
- Once it is finished we will have to touch in the upper corner on the adjustment wheel .
- Where it says Network name, we write the exact name of the WiFi where we want our mobile to go silent.
- Finally click on “Done”.
