Do Disturb ends phone tag with the people you actually call. Flip a toggle when you have downtime, and see which of your friends and family are free to talk at that exact moment. This page answers the most common questions — if yours isn't here, email us and we'll help.
Enter your phone number and the SMS verification code we text you. Do Disturb currently supports US phone numbers only.
Tap the big toggle on the main screen (or on the Home Screen widget) to mark yourself available. Turn it off when you're busy.
Open the app to the Available Now list. Anyone there is free to talk right now — tap to call or message them directly. And whenever you've marked yourself free, you'll get a notification the moment one of your matched contacts becomes available too — so you can catch each other without having to keep checking the app.
Do Disturb uses mutual matching: you and your contact must each add the other before either of you appears on the other's list. This is intentional — it keeps your availability private to people you've both agreed to share it with. Make sure you've both added each other, and that your contact has installed the app and signed in with the same number you have saved.
Go to the Contacts tab and grant contacts permission, then pick the people you want to include. We never upload your full address book — only a one-way fingerprint of each selected contact's number is used for matching (see Privacy below).
You can mark some contacts as Favorites. When you go available, you can broadcast to your Favorites only, or to everyone you've matched with — handy when you only want your closest people to know you're free.
Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap the + in the corner, search for Do Disturb, and add the widget. You can flip your availability right from the widget without opening the app. The interactive widget requires iOS 17 or later.
While your own availability is on, you get a push notification whenever one of your matched contacts becomes available — so the two of you can connect right then. Want to hear about it even when your own availability is off? Turn on Always-on notifications in Settings.
The widget flips instantly on screen; the change syncs to the server as soon as your phone has a network connection. If a toggle seems stuck, open the app once to let it sync.
As little as possible. We store a one-way SHA-256 hash of your phone number — never the number itself — plus your availability status and a push token. Your contacts stay on your device; only hashes of the people you select are used for matching. No analytics, no ads, no trackers. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.
Go to Settings → Delete Account. This permanently removes your account, your contact selections, and all associated data immediately. You can also email sgatuku@gmail.com and we'll remove it for you.