Between Slack messages, email notifications, calls from family and friends, calendar reminders and alerts from dozens of apps, our smartphones would ring and ding like slot machines, if we let them.

You can add people to an exception list, or allowlist, on your Pixel, so Do Not Disturb mode doesn't silence them. Here's how to do that.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You can customize Do Not Disturb in a variety of different ways. You can customize Do Not Disturb in a variety of ...