Quiet hours
Quiet hours silence non-critical reminders during a time window you pick — usually overnight. Reminders still appear, just without sound or vibration.
What quiet hours do
During your quiet hours window, any non-critical reminder that would fire is downgraded to the silent style — no sound, no vibration. You still see the notification on your lock screen, so you can tap it when you wake up, and the dose is still tracked normally.
Critical-priority medications (heart, seizure, asthma, insulin) are exempt by default. They keep firing with full sound because you shouldn't miss them.
Setting a quiet window
- Open Settings > Quiet hours.
- Tap the Start button and pick a time (e.g. 10:00 PM).
- Tap the End button and pick a time (e.g. 7:00 AM).
The window can cross midnight (10 PM to 7 AM is fine). If you set End earlier than Start, DoseAlert understands the window wraps around midnight.
The critical-exempt toggle
Below the Start/End buttons, there's a toggle: Critical meds always fire. It's on by default.
- On — critical medications reminders stay loud during quiet hours.
- Off — everything, including critical meds, goes silent during quiet hours.
Only turn this off if you have a very specific reason (maybe you're in hospital and the staff are waking you for meds). For most people, leave it on.
Disabling quiet hours
Tap Disable quiet hours (at the bottom of the Quiet hours card) to turn the feature off entirely. Reminders will fire at normal volume all day and night.
Quiet hours and Remind Later
If you defer a reminder using Later and the new time lands inside your quiet window, the deferred reminder goes silent too, even if you picked "noisy" in the defer sheet. This prevents accidentally waking yourself up.
Quiet hours and group reminders
Group reminders follow the same rules. If the group's scheduled time is inside your quiet window, the reminder goes silent. Critical-priority group members don't override this — groups themselves don't have a priority setting.
When to use it
- Any medication you wouldn't take overnight but that happens to have a night-time reminder.
- Medications with very flexible timing where a lost 30 minutes doesn't matter.
- Quiet days at a hotel or at a friend's house where you don't want to disturb others.