Getting Phone Calls in DND on iPhone? Try This Fix!

“I would have thought that when I tell the phone that I do not want to be disturbed, that would obviously also mean I don’t want to receive phone calls, but not to Apple it seems. The settings in focus mode are confusing. I don’t see anything directly about phone calls. I tried to add the phone app to ‘silence notifications from,’ but is a phone call a ‘notification’?

I also set ‘allow phone calls from’ to ‘allowed people only’ (why is there no ‘allow phone calls from’ from ‘no one’ setting?). The confusing thing is that the list of people in ‘silence notifications from’ and ‘allow notifications from’ is the same. So, if you add someone to the silence list, they are also automatically on the allowed list!? With all this, I’m still not sure I have silenced phone calls.”

Getting Phone Calls in DND mode on iPhone - 1

I came across the above post on MacRumors by the user ahostmadsen. Upon doing further investigation, I found out he isn’t the only one out there. Many other users on different iPhones, as well as different OS versions [iOS 18 and 26], have reported the exact same problem. So, is there a way to address this bug?

First off, I gave a shot at the Silence Notifications feature, but that didn’t work out [although it’s named Silence Notifications, it also deals with calls]. So what else can be done? Well, I came across an interesting workaround that will help you rectify this issue once and for all. So without any further ado, let’s check it out.