You can silence iPhone notifications temporarily with Focus or change notification behavior for a specific app. Choose the narrowest method that solves the problem so you do not accidentally miss important alerts.
Temporarily Silence Notifications With Focus
- Open Control Center.
- Tap Focus.
- Select Do Not Disturb or another Focus.
- Choose a duration if the available controls offer one.
Silence One App
- Open Settings.
- Tap Notifications.
- Select the app.
- Turn off Sounds if you want visual notifications without an alert sound, or turn off Allow Notifications if you intentionally want to stop its notifications.
Customize a Focus Instead of Silencing Everything
A Focus can allow notifications from selected people and apps while silencing others. This is useful for work, sleep, driving, or other situations where a total notification shutdown would be too disruptive.
If Alerts Are Still Silenced
Check whether another Focus is active, whether a schedule is turning it on automatically, and whether the app has its own notification settings. Silent mode and alert volume can also affect what you hear.
Check Scheduled Focus Rules
If notifications become quiet again later, a schedule, location trigger, app trigger, or shared-device Focus setting may be re-enabling the mode automatically. Review those automations before repeatedly turning Focus off by hand. This is especially important when the problem happens at the same time or place each day.
Notification Summaries Are Another Option
If constant alerts are the problem, a scheduled notification summary can reduce interruptions without completely disabling notifications from every app. Critical and time-sensitive alerts should still be reviewed separately.