28 Jan 2026 · 2 min
Jeff Watson explains how to use iPhone's Do Not Disturb scheduling to silence work notifications during evenings and mornings. Dealers who set it up protect family time, cut interruptions during tax season, and stay more productive when they're actually working.
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Hello. Happy Monday, everybody. Hope you guys are geared up for an amazing week. Coming up on the start of this tax time, we're starting to see some tax money here in our little dealership. And I know some dealers around the country are starting to see it as well. For our Monday minute this week, I lost Luke. I think he's out doing something more important. But just wanted to share with you a little tip I found for those of you that I know it's a basic feature in the iPhone. I don't know about the Androids or the Google phones, but there's a little feature called do not disturb. It's in your settings about six or seven lines down. You can schedule a do not disturb on your phone, something I started just a couple weeks ago, and I highly, highly recommend you guys set up your do not disturb. It silences all your notifications. It silences all your phone calls, text messages, everything outside of, I think, your VIP group or maybe people that call twice in a row. There's some other little settings you can put in there so that if it's an emergency, people can get through to you. But I would recommend setting your do not disturb maybe as early as, I don't know, six, seven, eight o' clock at night, all the way through till the next morning. It's going to help us as dealers disconnect. If we're at home, we can be involved with our family. If we are on our personal time, we can enjoy our personal time. If we're sleeping, we're not getting notifications so important that we are tuning out from the dealership to keep our sanity, and then we're not neglecting other relationships. So something I put into place the last couple of weeks, it's really helped me. Hope it's a little tip for you guys this Monday to make your week better, more productive, and stay tuned for the podcast on Thursday. We're going to go over just a whole slew of great things that have been on Luke's mind and my mind this week and hope you guys have a great, great week and sell a lot of cars.