1. Sleep Mode should auto turn off when alarm is dismissed. This feels like a pretty standard use case.
2. Routines should work with modes. Specifically, Routines should allow the turning on or off of chosen Modes. This also seems pretty important, at least to me. Currently, you can only activate a routine with a mode. But if Routines have more available conditions, you should be able to activate a mode with a routine.
3. Modes should work well with each other or ability to set priority modes or layered, i.e. a mode scheduled to be on all the time, every day should auto turn on/off around other mode schedules. If the whole point is automation, then I'd expect my custom constant mode to be auto turned back on between other modes.
4. The documentation for mode/routine priorities should be made clear & easily accessible from the phone. If a mode is turned on, does it auto turn off the current running mode indefinitely? (Yes). Will the other resume after that mode schedule ends or is turned off? (No). Like, is this the intended behavior, or is it a bug? Do routines work similarly with each other? Do they auto turn off modes? If your Do Not Disturb is on by itself, not through a mode, is it kept on after the mode/routine ends?
My Phone: Galaxy S20
My Use Case: These days, people are becoming more aware of the detriments of social media and smart phone notification distractions. I prefer to have a certain mode on all day every day where my "Do Not Disturb" settings only allows either my contacts or my favorites to reach me, so that I'm not inundated with a bunch of spam calls all day. This is how I was using "Do Not Disturb" previously. But at night and at work, I want the customization of the "Do Not Disturb" to only allow calls that come in more than once in a 15 minute period. That way, I can always be contacted in case of emergency. I rarely change my Sound settings to silent because I cannot be reached at all. So, I figured I'd use the Modes which have cutomizable "Do Not Disturb"s.
Currently, I can only customize the "Do Not Disturb" settings with Modes, and not Routines. But I can only use Routines to turn off "Do Not Disturb" when I dismiss my morning alarm, at which time it just turns off the "Do Not Disturb" entirely rather than changing it's settings. Then I have to automatically turn on my everyday mode because the schedule for it (every day all day) doesn't work (assuming because I have my sleep routine running during midnight when it's supposed to be activated?).
Further, if I'm going to have to activate modes manually, they should have their individual buttons available in the notification quick panel (there used to be a focus mode). But now, I have to hold down the modes button, scroll to my custom mode (because there's no ability to rearrange them), then click on it and click on or off. But I'd prefer not to do it manually because I'll have to remember to click buttons all day long.
At this point, I've spent so much time trying to configure these convoluted things that spending the time to write this was a drop in the bucket.
And what's more, I had trouble even posting this because there is a "Sub Categories" field on the form from the Galaxy S page that requires a chosen label from the drop down, but there are no labels. I had to go back and post from the Smartphones page and select a location. So the form on the Galaxy S page needs to be updated or should link to this page's form.
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