Auto Reply to Texts on iPhone While Busy

You can turn on a new feature called Do Not Disturb while busy on iPhone running iOS 11. In the first instance, what does Do Not Disturb mean on your iPhone? It means that with this car mode feature turned on, your iPhone will not receive notifications while you are driving or busy doing something else, so you don’t get distracted. You can turn off Do Not Disturb if you are a passenger and would like to use your iPhone. Your iPhone’s driving mode also allows you to turn on and customize an Auto Reply text message that will send to whosoever is texting you while busy.

Let us go through the step by step instructions to set out of office messages on iPhone to auto reply your clients on text message while busy.

How to Auto Reply to Texts While Busy on iPhone

However, there is a workaround for iPhone auto-reply while you are busy. We are going to use the DND mode feature to auto reply for incoming text messages while you are not on seat to reply your messages. This will work perfect while you want to set auto-reply text on iPhone to reply to calls and messages automatically while you are busy. Here are the steps:

Step 1 ====> Open Settings.

Step 2 ====> Select Do Not Disturb.

Step 3 ====> Under Do Not Disturb While Driving, tap Auto-Reply To.

Step 4 ====> Here, you can choose to send auto-replies to No One, Recent contacts, Favorite contacts, or All Contacts. Select the one you prefer. Then go back.

Step 5 ====> Now select Auto-Reply. Here you can customize what your auto-reply message will say.

Set Vacation Email Reply on Vacation

If you depend on iCloud emails, you can set vacation response right from your iCloud Email Settings.

Step 1 ====> Log in to www.icloud.com and select the Mail. Once you open the mail app on the browser

Step 2 ====> Click on the Settings icon from the left bottom of the sidebar.

Step 3 ====> Click on Preferences from the pop-up menu

Step 4 ====> Then click on Vacation tab to continue. On the vacation tab, you have the option to set your vacation period and the automatic response.

There is no option on the iPhone Mail app to set the vacation response for emails. However, like iCloud, most of the other email providers are also offering to set an automatic vacation response including Gmail, Yahoo Mail, HotMail providers.

iPhone Auto Reply Messages for Calls

iOS is offering a feature to set an auto reply for all incoming calls. Instead of simply rejecting the calls, you can send back pre-set message while you reject. You have an option to set three quick response messages to send back while rejecting the incoming calls. To customize “Respond with Text for incoming calls, here are the steps: