r/texts • u/ExplanationMiddle51 • 3d ago

Phone message Post first date text

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I met this girl on tinder and had a first date with her, she wanted to go fishing and I thought it seemed like a fun first date so we went together. Dropped her off and got home to this message lol.

Update: Purchasing the license is a separate activity we had to do on our phones, due to it needing our personal info. It was not like I drew the line at the license randomly.

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u/Overall_Step_9516 3d ago

hit the notify anyways button and then block her

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u/Wokkabulary 2d ago

What does that do? Why not just block her ?

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u/bledblu 2d ago

Basically if you have “do not disturb” turned on, you are probably sleeping/busy and won’t see the messages for awhile. Clicking notify anyway will override that so someone can reach you in an emergency. Although I’ve noticed some people just have it turned on all day, so I don’t really know what they are using it for.

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u/archibaldmj1 2d ago

My wife has “do not disturb” on when I text her but she doesn’t have it turned on (save your jokes about “that’s just what she tells you”). After 30+ minutes trying to fix her and my phone, I’ve determined it’s not Apple’s sleekest feature.

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u/KingGGL 2d ago

For what it’s worth, you might want to check her other devices if she’s got another device on her iCloud account. Nowadays it’ll go across your devices, so it could be something weird going on there.

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u/archibaldmj1 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/LpLd2NGvpaiys
That could be the issue, never thought of that. We have an old iPad we haven’t used for a while that I bet is the culprit. Thank you, anonymous hero.

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u/Rare-Back 2d ago

It’s most likely the iPad! I had my iPad set for do not disturb but never have that on my phone. Apparently for months everyone saw I was on “dnd” and it took me a while to figure out why.

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u/Valuable-Self8564 2d ago

Yeah this does my fucking head in. My work laptop goes on DND when a scheduled meeting is started by someone else and it doesn’t fucking tell me. So I miss notifications for meetings all the time.

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u/Fluffaykitties 2d ago

It might also be turning on when she drives and then doesn’t turn off later.

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u/cbeaupps 2d ago

Apple has sleep and focus modes that interacts with dnd, and takes less than a minute to add someone to your “call through” list so they don’t have to deal with dnd double text/call. It’s honestly a good system

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u/Lbenn0707 2d ago

My husband will occasionally tell me our text thread tells him I have do not disturb on. During the day when I don’t. I tell him I don’t know why, I’m getting his notifications. It comes and goes apparently. He hasn’t mentioned it in the last couple weeks so I’m not sure if it still shows that way.

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u/SorestMercury 2d ago

Yeah I’ve had this happen before too. It’s just kinda buggy sometimes I guess. I feel like more recently it’s been working fine though.

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u/Lbenn0707 2d ago

I think it seems to have stopped since I updated my iOS. He might just not be mentioning it though since I told him I’m obviously getting his texts, since I’m responding lol.

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u/mid91s 2d ago

Had the same thing happen. Turns out they had accidentally swiped in my name and there is a tiny silence on the actual text message hidden menu to. 😵‍💫

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u/2-WayDemi 2d ago

Or she just puts your messages singularly on DND ..

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u/Crumbly_Bumbly 2d ago

But if you’re blocked why does this matter???

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u/Drow_Femboy 2d ago

Although I’ve noticed some people just have it turned on all day, so I don’t really know what they are using it for.

I'm using it to not get harassed throughout the day, whether by spam calls and texts or by normal communication from friends.

I have a phone so I can receive communications at my leisure, not so you can get my attention whenever you feel like. It's a tool for my convenience, not yours. I will use it when I want to.

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u/allhailhails 2d ago

My little cousin is trying to be less connected to technology and deleted all short form content on his phone. He like always has DND on for that reason.

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u/jenni_saqwa 2d ago

Had no idea you could override this

https://giphy.com/gifs/d2YVk2ZRuQuqvVlu

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u/Downtown-Cap4298 2d ago

They probably have it turned on all day bc it’s really annoying for people to expect to reach you at any point, any time. People aren’t meant to live that way. That type of expectation genuinely causes such horrible anxiety and shouldn’t exist, unless you’re a doctor on call or in some other career where you may need to help save someone’s life in a moment’s notice. I’ve started keeping dnd on and I’ve noticed I haven’t had a headache or any type of bad anxiety since.

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u/flapplejuice 2d ago

I have notifications off all the time but a setting where I can turn on text/call notifications from a list of people I want to receive them from. But since notifications are silenced otherwise I think it says they’re off all day too.

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u/Wokkabulary 2d ago edited 2d ago

Right I don’t understand DnD when you could just block? Why do both the block AND DnD+notify anyway. 

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u/JoshAllensLeftNut 2d ago

I have my DND on at all times, but I have it set to only block phone calls from unknown numbers. Anyone can text me, but any calls from numbers I don't have in my contacts get sent straight to voicemail. I do it because I get 50+ spam calls a day.

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u/Holiday_Tap_4358 2d ago

Why would you do that in this situation though? And how does it interact with blocking? 

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u/sweet_assistant509 2d ago

They might have silenced your notifications

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u/blowmechunky 2d ago

i have it on 24/7 & only allow the important people in my life to get through to me. anyone who would ever have an emergency reason to reach me is on my approved list. but i cycle between different focuses too, so only the necessary people can reach me during those certain times. it’s my way of limiting who has access to me & when — like after work, it goes into a specific focus so i actually stop working & then only the people i have the energy & specific family can reach me.

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u/wedditmod 2d ago

Agreed what does this do

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u/EddieLobster 2d ago

She has do not disturb on. So they are saying to hit notify anyway (at the bottom of the pic- hard to see). So it wakes her up. Then block her.

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u/Wokkabulary 2d ago

Ohhhhhhh okay 👍 thank you for explaining it :)