Automate settings with Assist

The Assist app adjusts your phone to fit your activities and preferences.

For example, when you’re driving, your phone can automatically respond to calls and text messages. During meetings, your phone can silence all calls (except from favorite contacts or urgent repeat callers). And your phone can silence itself every night.

Assist does not require a data connection.

About activity cards

Use activity cards to automate your phone's settings and responses. When you first open the Assist app, the activity cards are grey. When you customize a card, it switches to full color and begins adjusting your phone settings, based on your preferences, as well as driving speed, calendar events, or other information approved in the privacy policy. To stop using an activity, simply deselect the options (switching the card back to gray).

Set up activity cards

  1. Touch > Assist.
  2. Scroll through the app information, touch Next and read the privacy policy, then touch Yes, I'm in.

  3. Touch an activity card. Options include:

    • Driving: Hear the names of callers, listen to incoming text messages, or send auto-replies. Control is hands-free. (Requires GPS to be on, since driving motion activates this activity.)
    • Meeting: Silence ringtones and notifications or switch to vibrate during your calendar events. (Applies only to events in your calendar that include at least one other person, and you have accepted. All-day events are not included.)
    • Sleeping: Turn off ringtones and notifications during the hours you specify. (Alarms and media are not silenced.)

  4. Use menus and checkboxes to customize the options.

    Touch for more information or to finish setup.

TipTo remove an activity card, or restore it to your list, touch > Settings.

When cards are active

When an activity card is adjusting your phone settings, you’ll see an “Active” label on the activity card, and an icon in the status bar with a notification, such as:

Driving
Meeting
Sleeping
  1. Drag the status bar down to view the notification.

  2. In the notification, touch the activity name to open the card, then change the options.

    Or, touch “I’m not...” to indicate that you’re not doing the activity. (Drag the notification down with two fingers to see this option.) To reset the activity, reopen the activity card.

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