Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away

[rbcameron]

Although there are lots of new features in Windows 10 compared to Windows 8.1, there are a couple of curious cases where features have been taken away for no obvious reason:

1. Swipe down on lock screen for camera

This is a pretty handy feature on Windows 8.1 that lets you swipe downward on the lock screen to open the camera app to take a photo quickly. It can be disabled in Settings, so it's hard to see why there would be privacy concerns.

2. Quiet Hours cannot be scheduled

In Windows 8.1 you can set a time period each day (such as 23:00 to 7:00) when Quiet Hours will automatically come on and mute all sound. In Windows 10 it seems that the feature is reduced to a manual toggle in the Notification Centre.

Perhaps these features are gone because the relevant parts of the OS were rewritten. Perhaps there are plans to bring them back. (If not, Quiet Hours is now an extremely lame feature!)

Have you run into other cases like this?

Cheers

- rick

 

[Jason Rosenthal]

Automatic quiet hours is still there. You may have to look under settings to make adjustments.

 

[JiggaJiggaJugga]

I was able to set a schedule in mine. Open Cortana, Notebook, Quiet Hours.

 

[rbcameron]

Interesting. In Cortona Notebook I have:


No Quiet Hours
Windows 10.0.10586 Build 10586

Could this be because my local is en_CA, not en_US?

- rick

 

[rbcameron]

Scratch that theory: I changed Region, Keyboard and Speech to en_US and still no Quiet Hours in the Notebook.

 

[IrishBoy0113]

The Quiet hours on/off switch is now in the Action Center button in the System Tray area of the Task Bar. You can only turn it off or on now. Turning it on disables notifications from 12 am to 6 am. No customization is available at this time in Windows 10. Turn Quiet Hours on in Windows 10 - Windows Help -

 

[zei20t]

quiet hours works fine for me!

 

[rbcameron]

So let's try to figure out what's different about your system. Can you tell me the SKU and build number of WIndows 10? Your Region & Language settings? Anything else you can think of that may be relevant?

Thanks

- richard

 

[rbcameron]

@IrishBoy0113

Don't believe everything you read. When I toggle on QH in the AC it blocks notifications immediately and until it is toggled off.

- richard

 

[rbcameron]

@Jason & Jigga: Is it possible you're looking at a Windows 8.x machine?

- richard

 

[Steve Thackery]

Guys, I think you've misunderstood what he meant.

Quiet hours can no longer be triggered by "Busy" appointments in the Calendar. They can in WP8.1.

Personally I think this is an astonishing omission, and is one of the reasons I've reverted to WP8.1

 

[rbcameron]

@Steve: This is not the Windows Phone 10 forum, it's the Windows 10 forum. My points are about Windows 10.

If anyone sees the ability to schedule Quiet Hours on Windows 10 - not WP10 - please reply. I'd love to figure out how to do this, but I believe it is not possible with the current version of Windows 10.

- richard

 

[Lew Wetzel]

What version of windows 10 are you using? No settings on my Windows 10 Pro, Version 1511 OS build 1-586.104.

 

[Lew Wetzel]

Quiet Hours does not show up in my Windows 10 OS Build 10586.104 under Cortana, Notebook.

 

[Kevin Hill2]

Why would you need Quiet hours on your PC? The phone I understand and use it every day.

 

[rbcameron]

@Lew - Thanks for the confirmation

 

[rbcameron]

@Kevin - I run Windows 10 on my tablet. Very handy to have Quiet Hours on it - especially if it were able to turn QH on during meetings, like in WP8.1 (but not, sadly, WP10)

 

[rbcameron]

In build 14931, Quiet Hours still doesn't have a UI to control when it is in effect. However, the start and stop time for Quiet Hours can be changed via the registry or a policy. See How to Change the Default Quiet Hours in Windows 10 for details

- rick