Automate settings with Assist
Use Assist to automate your phone settings and responses when you’re driving, during events you’ve added to your calendar and when you’re sleeping.
Assist uses activity cards you customise with your preferences:
- Meeting. Set options to silence ringtones and notifications or switch to vibrate, accept only important calls and send automatic text message replies to favourite contacts during calendar events. All-day events are not included.
- Driving. Set options to hear incoming text messages and the names of callers announced, use your voice to send a text message reply or set up an automatic reply to calls and texts, and start music you last played. Control is hands-free. This activity requires GPS to be on, since driving motion activates it.
- Sleeping. Set options to turn off ringtones and notifications for all calls or accept only important calls during the hours you specify. Alarms and media are not silenced.
Set up activity cards
When you first open Assist, the activity cards are grey. After you customise them, cards switch to full colour and begin adjusting your phone settings based on your selected card options, driving speed, calendar events and other information approved in the privacy policy.
To customise a card:
- Touch
> Assist. - Scroll through the app information, touch Next and read the privacy policy, then touch Yes, I'm in.
- Touch an activity card.
- Use menus and tickboxes to customise the options.
- Touch
for more information or to finish setup. To customise auto-replies, touch 
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> Settings.To stop using Assist settings, deselect the options on the activity card (switching the card back to grey).
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 |  |
- Swipe the status bar down to view the notification.
Optionally:
- To change settings, touch the activity name to open the card.
- To temporarily stop using settings for the activity, touch “I’m not…” to indicate you’re not doing the activity. (If you don’t see this option, drag the notification down with two fingers.) Your settings resume the next time you begin the activity.