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I typically set Do Not Disturb ON when my wife takes an afternoon nap so as to not disturb her if someone calls. I did this today and when someone called the phone rang (and woke her up).

I thought Do Not Disturb would turn off the phone ringer. Is that wrong? And, if so, how do I silence incoming phone calls other than by changing the ring to silent?
 
Do not disturb is usually a setting for scheduled hours.
You want to choose something like silent instead.

OK. But if it is set manually why would it not silence the ringer when a call is received? I would think that Do Not Disturb would mean no sounds.

I can use Silent instead, and it is no more trouble than using Do Not Disturb, but why would Do Not Disturb not work?
 
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OK. Thank you. I will start using Silent mode.

This seems to be different from how it worked on my old Samsung S7 Edge. On that phone I just set Do Not Disturb manually and the phone did not ring if a call came in, but the settings description for the S7 specifically says that the phone will not ring while the settings description for the S10+ says no such thing.
 
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