Comments on: iPhone tip: Use a Silent Ringtone to Screen Calls in Your Sleep

By: Chevy

Chevy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:41:22 +0000

I cannot thank you enough! Great directions and very simple to do!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:16:03 +0000

Thanks for the detailed how to. You’ve saved a lot of people a lot of grief.

By: driver8

driver8 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:41:54 +0000

Blessings to you in this life and all further incarnations for this little tip!

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:13:22 +0000

They don’t want you to have the ability to block calls, or silence them, because then you could do it to their “spam” automated/moron callers.

By: Scotty

Scotty — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:27:48 +0000

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for!

By: Yoji

Yoji — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:51:49 +0000

Thank you so much for this solution!! I have never used ringtones and use vibrate for sound and then then silent when I don’t want anyone bothering me. I was wondering how I could cut this ringtone so I can make a shorter one for text messages. Thank you in advance for letting me know!! I tried in iTunes but it didn’t give me the option (probably because of the file type).

By: nina

nina — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:46:38 +0000

silence.m4r. a simple yet elegant solution.

By: Silence your iPhone at night, but still let certain people ring through. (Like Blackberry exceptions.) « ScottWorld Blog: My Rants and Raves

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:50:36 +0000

[...] The way to easily imitate this functionality on the iPhone is very easy, and is outlined by Richard K. Miller on his blog here. [...]

By: mary

mary — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:00:19 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

By: eric

eric — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:42:46 +0000

Apple should definitely fix this, because how ever simple this “fix” is, this is not a solution. yes it silences the unwanted callers, but still all the notifications, text messages, emails, etc all make noise.

I work nights, so sleep in later than most people, but have parents who are old. I would like to be able to get my night’s rest, but still be reachable in case of a heart attack or something…

(even the new mail sound wakes me up)

By: martin blenke

martin blenke — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:18:51 +0000

thank you – so easy – i should have known myself
greetings from austria

By: Ticiana

Ticiana — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:39:44 +0000

Thank you a lot. I had a BB before, and the best thing in his ring tones was a mute options. It does come handy.

By: Ticiana

Ticiana — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:38:12 +0000

Thank you. A great solution. I had a BB first, and it had a

By: Eric Pugh

Eric Pugh — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:13:42 +0000

I have a contact called “Do not answer” that is for all of the telemarketers who repeatedly call me. I just made that ringtone be “Silence”, so I don’t get distracted. AWESOME!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:17:28 +0000

what if some of your contacts are already assigned custom ringtones. will they go to silence once you set the default to silent or will you have to change all contacts with custom tones to default and just enable the ones you want to ring?

By: jen

jen — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:32:06 +0000

i’ve been getting a spam caller in the middle of the night for over a week. bought a call blocking app on iTunes & that turned out to be another scam!! your ringtone saved the day!!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:38:39 +0000

I’ve tried to make my own and they sucked. Seached google “silent ringtone”. You were first. You are a god.

By: Nora

Nora — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:49:57 +0000

Rock on. Thanks much.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:32:09 +0000

My silence/ringer switch recently broke, and I couldn’t believe that Apple hadn’t put in a “none” option for the ringtone – but this was perfect! It’s a little bit of a hassle to keep changing settings, but I would rather do that than spend $100 fixing the stupid thing. Thanks so much for the detailed tutorial!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:49:29 +0000

This is a great concept, however if your using an iphone for business use and you want to do this for incoming emails. So for only a emails coming in I want to be alerted…all other emails I want silent…does every email that I could potentially get have to be in my contacts then?

By: Vanessa Almguer

Vanessa Almguer — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:31:19 +0000

hi-do you have to use the exact silence.m4r ?

By: Vanessa Almguer

Vanessa Almguer — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:16:15 +0000

Does it have to be the silence.m4r?

By: Richard K Miller

Richard K Miller — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:03:05 +0000

Joe your approach is probably best for your circumstances. Personally, I only assigned the silent ringtone to ALL contacts when I was trying to take a Sunday nap and only be interrupted by certain people. Most of the time it’s the other way around.

By: Richard K Miller

Richard K Miller — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:01:47 +0000

Unfortunately, I haven’t seen a way to completely block texts.

By: Richard K Miller

Richard K Miller — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:01:28 +0000

Yep!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:24:04 +0000

Can I put this on my iPhone and tell it to silence certain calls I recieve, not all of them? I don’t want my default to be silent, then I go back and change my other 200 contacts that I do want to hear from to ring. I just have four numbers I’d like to be silent, so can I go to those four individual numbers and make THEIR default ringtone silent, not ALL of my contacts?