Alarm apps to break through Quiet Hours now in Windows 10

swarfega · 15 Nov 2016

Well yea, this is a no brainer lol.

Brink · 15 Nov 2016

What would be even better is to have an advanced option in "Settings -> Apps & features" for each app to turn on/off allowing to break through Quiet Hours.

zooburner · 15 Nov 2016

Why would anyone want an alarm that windows wouldn't let alarm in the first place !!
This is funny

lx07 · 17 Nov 2016

Brink said:

What would be even better is to have an advanced option in "Settings -> Apps & features" for each app to turn on/off allowing to break through Quiet Hours.

I was thinking that but as it says in the comments on the link that is up to the developer of the app.

if an app sets a toast to scenario="alarm", it will break through quiet hours. Adaptive and interactive toast notifications for Windows 10 Tiles and Toasts has a great post on notifications.

I guess if MS don't make the facility to allow only certain apps to break through quiet hours then badly written apps could all break through - whether they were alarms or not - if the toast notification was set like that. Presumably turning off notifications altogether on a per-app basis (which you can already do) would stop this though.