The Outlook app may have you select the type of email.Enter your Business Email address, and tap Continue.Tap the Settings gear in the top right corner of your inbox.If you haven't already set up an account, tap Get started.Download, install, and open the Outlook app.Note: We've used a Samsung Galaxy 5, for the instructions below.
The Outlook app is compatible with Android phones and tablets running Android 4.0 and above. To access your Business Email from your Android phone, you can use the Outlook app. If you have a different type of email, please see Microsoft 365 Android instructions, or Workspace email Android instructions. This will bring up a menu where you can either disable or modify the do not disturb by selecting Turn off, or, Adjust Settings respectively.This article is specific to Business Email. To cancel or modify a do not disturb click the Do Not Disturb icon ( ). This would silence our personal email during work hours and our work email during weekends. From the screenshot below we can see only one of three email accounts is currently silenced.Ĭontinuing with our example, we would then select our personal email account, select the Do Not Disturb icon and, pick the During Work Hours selection. The Zz’s superimposed over the email icon also identifies which accounts currently have an active do not disturb in place. When the Do Not Disturb enters its scheduled time the icon will become red ( ) and it will automatically silence all notifications from that email account.
Select During Weekends and click the Done ( ) button in the top right. Also, any of the timed options can be used in conjunction with any or all of the scheduled options.įollowing our example, let’s set our work account to be silent during the weekends. However, all three of the Scheduled options can be active simultaneously. Tip: Only one option under Timed can be active at any one time.
Until I turn it off is an indefinite do not disturb.These six options are separated into two categories: Timed or Scheduled. Here is a brief explanation of what each of the six options does. From here we have the ability to set six options. This brings up the Do not disturb options screen. Tip: If you want to set a blanket do not disturb across all accounts, select the Home icon. Select the Do not disturb ( ) icon in the top right-hand corner of the menu. In the screenshot below we can see our work account is active. You can verify which email account is active by the title in the menu. Make sure the email account you want to set the do not disturb on is active. Open your Outlook mobile app and select the Waffle menu. In this article, we are going to implement this very example. The latter might be better when you need to dedicate time between work and personal accounts.įor example, you could set do not disturb on personal email during business hours and, do not disturb on work email during weekends. The former is a great solution when you need general quiet time from all your email accounts. You can either set do not disturb globally across all email accounts, or, you can set it individually for each email account. With Outlook mobile you have two great options when it comes to setting do not disturb. In fact, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently demonstrated this functionality during his keynote at Microsoft Inspire 2018. Do not disturb in the Outlook mobile app is an amazing option.