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Digital specimens, selection advice, relationships, and recipes are editorial work and have not been validated through user research.", "editorialStatus": "drafted", "specimenData": "fictional", "specimenNote": "Original fictional specimens. Definitions cite sources; usage advice and recipes are editorial.", "sources": [ { "id": "dnd-apple-focus", "url": "https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-a-focus-iphd6288a67f/ios", "title": "Apple Support · Set up a Focus on iPhone", "checkedAt": "2026-09-16", "archive": { "status": "pending", "confirmed": false, "url": null, "capturedAt": null, "lookupUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260916*/https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-a-focus-iphd6288a67f/ios" } } ], "lists": [], "ordered": false, "listDisclaimer": "Seat numbers are editorial positions, not scores, rankings, or popularity measurements. A list that is not filled is left as it is." }, "entry": { "id": "do-not-disturb", "type": "interaction", "name": { "zh": "勿扰模式", "en": "Do Not Disturb" }, "aliases": [ "DND", "Focus Mode", "专注模式", "免打扰" ], "granularity": "experience", "intents": [ "reduce-interruption", "configure" ], "tags": [ "notifications", "interruption", "silence", "exceptions", "focus" ], "definition": "A system-level mode the user turns on: while it is in effect alerts are silenced by default and only the people and apps the user allowed in advance still get through; when it ends, the held notifications remain available rather than being discarded.", "boundary": "Do Not Disturb governs the loudness of alerts, not whether messages survive: a silenced notification must still arrive and stay readable, or the mode becomes silent discarding. It is not a per-app notification switch either — that is a setting, while this is a temporary state that can be turned on and off and usually carries a time or place condition. The test is silence by default, an explicit exception list, and the ability to end it at any moment. Using it to bury genuinely urgent alerts that demand immediate action is not part of this entry’s practice.", "signature": [ "One switch drops alerts as a whole to silent, rather than setting them one by one", "The user can name in advance which people and apps may break through", "While it is on the state is visible and it can be turned off at any time" ], "when": [ "The user needs an uninterrupted stretch and the notifications are not urgent", "The cost of interruption varies with context — asleep, driving, in a meeting", "A few contacts or apps genuinely must be able to reach the user at any time" ], "when_not": [ "Silenced notifications are discarded outright and the user never learns of them", "It substitutes for the notification tiering and frequency control the app itself should provide", "Alerts about safety, health, or money that must be acted on immediately are silenced along with the rest" ], "tradeoff": "It hands the decision about interruption back to the user, at the cost of requiring them to configure what may break through in advance: too narrow an exception list misses what mattered, too wide a one is the same as not turning it on.", "comparison": { "focus": "Lowering the loudness of alerts as a whole for a stretch of time", "mechanism": "Silence by default plus an exception list the user named in advance", "cost": "The user bears the width of the exception list, and configuring it is unavoidable" }, "sources": [ { "id": "dnd-apple-focus", "title": "Apple Support · Set up a Focus on iPhone", "url": "https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-a-focus-iphd6288a67f/ios", "claim": "The document explains that Focus is a feature that helps users concentrate on a task by minimizing distractions: it can temporarily silence all notifications or allow only specific ones relevant to the task, and let other people and apps know the user is busy; setting one up lets the user choose which people and which apps may send notifications during it, and whether silenced notifications still appear on the Lock Screen. It also notes that Do Not Disturb can be turned on quickly from Control Center. This entry paraphrases the mechanism from it; the requirement that silencing is not discarding is editorial judgement.", "checkedAt": "2026-09-16", "archive": { "lookupUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260916*/https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-a-focus-iphd6288a67f/ios", "status": "pending", "checkedAt": "2026-09-22T11:59:25.588Z", "error": "status-request-failed", "jobId": "spn2-e502cdbb62406516be7afead88b4eae68e1ef37c" } } ], "relations": [ { "target": "calm-technology", "kind": "composes_with", "condition": "The product must keep offering status without competing for attention", "reason": "Do Not Disturb hands the interruption threshold to the user while calm technology argues that signal strength should match urgency; the two approach one attention problem from different sides.", "basis": "editorial" }, { "target": "notification-center", "kind": "composes_with", "condition": "After the mode ends the user needs to review what was silenced", "reason": "The notification centre is where held messages go; without it, silencing cannot be told apart from discarding.", "basis": "editorial" }, { "target": "user-control", "kind": "composes_with", "condition": "The user wants to decide for themselves when they can be interrupted", "reason": "The whole value of the mode is that the interruption switch belongs to the user rather than being judged on their behalf.", "basis": "editorial" }, { "target": "nagging", "kind": "conflicts_when", "condition": "An app still pushes marketing or rating requests during the mode under the guise of important alerts", "reason": "The exception mechanism exists for what the user actually cares about; squeezing promotion into it destroys their trust in the switch altogether.", "basis": "editorial" } ], "rules": [ { "when": "A notification is silenced by the mode", "instruction": "Still deliver and keep it so the user can review everything after the mode ends; never discard silently.", "strength": "must", "basis": "editorial" }, { "when": "The user has turned the mode on", "instruction": "Keep a perceivable indicator of the state on screen and make turning it off as short a path as turning it on.", "strength": "must", "basis": "editorial" } ], "behavior": { "states": [ "off", "on", "scheduled" ], "a11y": [ "The state is conveyed by more than color or an icon, with text as well", "The exception settings are keyboard-reachable and their meaning is announced" ], "motion": "Toggling needs no animation and switches state directly under a reduced-motion preference" }, "demo": null, "version": "0.1.0", "editorialStatus": "drafted", "requirements": [], "demoCapabilities": [], "implementationNote": "This entry has no runnable specimen; the illustration is an editorial sketch of how the switch, the exception list, and the held notifications relate, not a verified implementation. Before shipping, confirm that silenced notifications really do remain reviewable and check that urgent alerts are not silenced with the rest.", "image": { "src": "/images/do-not-disturb.webp", "alt": "A fictional phone settings sketch: a Do Not Disturb switch turned on at the top, two exception groups below it for allowed people and allowed apps with avatars and icons, and a dimmed stack of notification cards at the bottom showing that they are silenced but kept." }, "searchTerms": [ "通知", "打断", "静音", "例外", "专注" ] } }