>Do Not Disturb While Driving

5 Cut out interruptions

Do Not Disturb While Driving (DNDWD) stops notifications popping up when you’re driving and distracting you from the road and pedestrians

In Settings > Do Not Disturb, scroll down to the last three items. The first determines how the feature activates. When it’s set to Automatic, your iPhone’s Wi-Fi is used to detect the Doppler effect, and DNDWD is turned on if it’s thought you’re moving in a car.

If you wake your device, you’ll see a notification that tells you the feature is active. Open that for an option to override DNDWD if you’re a passenger or on public transport.

The feature can be set to enable as soon as your iPhone connects to your vehicle’s Bluetooth system, or you can choose to turn it on manually. To do the latter, you’ll need to add a button to Control Centre: go to Settings > Control Centre > Customise Controls and tap the + next to DNDWD.

6 Send auto-replies

Your iPhone can reply to let people know why their attempts to reach you are going unanswered. DNDWD’s second setting specifies who receives these messages: no one, people you’ve replied to in the last day, your favourite contacts, or everyone. People in your chosen group can break through DNDWD by sending ‘urgent’ as a second message. Apple provides a preset response. You can personalise that message in DNDWD’s third setting.

7 Limit changes

Got a teenager in whom you want to instill a sense of road safety? You can prevent DNDWD‘s three settings being changed (in the fifth group down in Settings > General > Restrictions). Beware that although this stops changes to the feature kicking in automatically and the message it sends, your child can still override the feature.