AutoSilent

This AutoSilent program does just what I want it to do. It turns my iPhone’s ringer off at a designated time and turns it back on at a designated time. I do not use the location feature so have location turned off. I use the DND feature of the iPhone to turn the ringer off at 11:00 pm and on at 8:00am. I have an iPhone XR and I use it with a Google calendar, but it syncs with the Apple calendar which syncs with this program. I had a couple of questions setting it up, but my emails were responded to very promptly giving me the information I needed to set the program up correctly. I highly recommend this AutoSilent program to any one who wants to be certain their iPhone does not ring right in the middle of a meeting, play, church, etc., but also turns the ring feature back on when the event is over. I have had it working for a couple of weeks now and it has never failed to turn the ringer off and back on multiple times each day.

As far as I can tell, there is no other app in the iOS universe that does what this app does. I am a retired pastor, and nothing has bothered me more than having someone's cell-phone go off with the "Star Wars Theme" in the middle of my Sunday morning prayer. Even worse, when it's my own phone!!! AutoSilent allows muting (or UN-muting!) by GPS location, by caLendar event, by repeating schedule, or by one-off timer set for whatever time you determine. You can even set the radius around a location within which you wany your phone to be muted. The authoreis responsive to suggestions, and you won't be dissapointed with this well-designed and highly useful app. [Late addition:. A problem showed up with iOS 11, and the author worked overtime to resolve it. I wish every vendor were as committed to product excellence and customer support!

When I first installed the app I was only using the timer option. I turned off locations. App would not turn off after X amount of minutes. After contacting tech support it was learned that I needed to have location active always even if I was just using the timer function. Since then the app has worked perfectly. I have since added schedules to turn my iOS device off at night. Then I started having extreme battery drain for the app. For some reason that is no longer a problem. Might have been fixed by an update of the app or of the iOS. Overall I like the app. It works as advertised. And I found tech-support superb. The only suggestion I have is perhaps the prompts that explain the apps configuration could be improved.