Although having DND activate automatically at a scheduled time is a great feature, having it deactivate at a scheduled time isn’t always ideal—for instance, when sleeping in during the weekend. Why not have an option to automatically deactivate “do not disturb,” when you first unlock your phone in the morning? (We’ll call this “autodisturb” for short.)

Last but not least, Apple hasn’t addressed the issue of alarms. Unbeknownst to some, alarms still go off when the R/S switch is set to silent, and also in DND mode. I think that’s probably the best choice, but it’s not ideal: on the one hand, it’s disruptive and embarrassing when an alarm goes off when attending a performance. But on the other hand, you don’t want to oversleep because you accidentally left the R/S switch set to silent, or left DND on so alarms remain silent.

It’s just too easy to forget that the phone is silenced, because over normal usage, there’s nothing conspicuous to remind you. Yes, I know it’s easy enough to turn my iPhone on its side and look for the little orange stripe that indicates it’s in silent mode. But what if I forget to do that, too?

Despite arguments that the current behavior is correct or that it isn’t, there is no way to make the embarrassing-interruption-versus-oversleeping issue magically go away. But it would be huge step in the right direction if the lock screen showed when alarms, reminders, and calendar alerts are scheduled to go off if the iPhone is in silent or DND mode. With the ability to slide and immediately go to the place where that alarm, reminder, or alert can be disabled, of course.

(Bonus tip: if you ever have a call at an inopportune moment, you can silence the ringer—with the call continuing to “ring” silently—by pressing the sleep/wake button or one of the volume buttons. Press the sleep/wake button twice to send the call to voicemail.)

So please, Apple, wake up and fix this for us.