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Re:Notifications in iOS 12 by ghaff on Thursday June 14, 2018 @10:06AM (#17311740)
In messages/phone you can put people in a group that you can set to bypass Do Not Disturb which is almost the same thing as you're asking for. In other apps, I'm not sure how iOS would have the identity information to do what you ask.
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Re:Notifications in iOS 12 by dpark on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:21PM (#17312780)
Is there some magic to make that work? So far as I can tell, this is only honored for phone calls. I don’t get texts from my wife when my phone is in DND mode, and she is in my allowed group.
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Re:Notifications in iOS 12 by ghaff on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:42PM (#17312989)
It's possible :-) that I'm wrong. I knew the feature existed for phone calls and I assumed that meant it worked for texts as well. But I haven't personally tried it. [ADDED: I could see the thinking being that if it's really urgent, someone will call and, if you're sleeping, a message notification won't reliably wake you up.]
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