What Does the Moon Mean on My iPhone & Text Message?
As an iPhone user, you might be noticed some time that half-moon, blue half-moon symbol on your iPhone Status bar. If you don’t know the meaning, it is a confusing symbol on the iPhone screen.
What does it means when you show the moon on the status bar?
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Nothing serious about that moon symbol; it is a “Do Not Disturb” symbol when you enable it. You can enable it to prevent notifications sounds, alerts, vibrations, and all that disturb you. You can disable it by toggling off in the Do Not Disturb settings.
What does showing the moon in the Text Messages Conversation mean?
The same blue message appears in the text messages area. If you are using iPhone 8, or iPhone X, then the blue moon and gray moon messages appear in text messages conversations.
The meaning of the Moon symbol is the same as in the Status bar, or we can say that, for a particular conversation, it puts the Do Not Disturb mode or Hide Alert mode. It shows for particular contacts; you have a mute notification. No vibration, no notification sound, still you received text messages.
There is a blue and gray half-moon symbol, Where blue means you have received a text message from the sender but have not read it yet. Whereas Gray Moon Symbol means you have opened and read messages. When you open the conversation and read the message, it will turn to the gray moon.
If you want to unmute or disable this Do Not Disturb Mode, you can open a particular conversation; for it, you set a Do Not Disturb and now tap on details. Then Put the Toggle off “Do Not Disturb”; this process is for iOS 10 or earlier; in your iPhone, if it’s iOS 11, toggle off “Hide Alerts.”
What does moon mean on iPhone X?
For iPhone X, they integrate a Notch, So now, the status bar is integrated at the top of the display. They Come up with the Control Center; as of now, in Earlier models before iPhone X, you can see a Battery percentage, but you don’t see a better percentage in iPhone X. Hence, you need to swipe up from the bottom side of the edge, and then Control Center will open, there you can see a battery percentage.
Same Way in the iPhone X; they moved the moon symbol instead of the Status bar in the Control Center. Where you can see a half-moon symbol, which indicates the Do Not Disturb.
So, in iPhone X, enabling and disabling Half Moon is simple. Just swipe up from the bottom side of the edge, Tu turns on the Do Not Disturb Mode, and tap on the half-moon icon, it will turn to purple, and you have activated DND successfully. In the reverse process, tap on the purple half-moon, and it will be disabled.
What does moon mean on iPhone 6?
iPhone 6 has an iOS 12, and Moon in iPhone 6 Screen indicates enabled “Do Not Disturb” mode.
Moon Symbol means it turns off the notifications, sounds, and vibrations.
Do Not Disturb Toggle is under the Setting of iPhone; Open “Settings/ Notification” Where Do Not Disturb is placed, you can go On and Off toggle to enable and disable Do Not Disturb Mode.
The exact process applies to iPhone 8. You can put Do Not Disturb in iPhone 8 by a toggle.
What Does Happen, or which option can you put on Do Not Disturb?
Open Control Center to swipe up from the bottom side of the edge, where you can see a half-moon symbol.
From settings, you can adjust notifications. You can see more options. So, Let’s see what it means.
Manual: If you enable the manual option, it means when you receive calls and texts and your phone is locked, then it will run silently.
Scheduled: Here, you can set a time when you need Do Not Disturb Mode. Your iPhone is into the Do Not Disturb between the set hours.
Allow From Calls: Set a specific target from whom you want a call if you created a group of families, work, everyone, or no one. The set allows calls from whatever group you want.
Repeated Calls: Between three minutes, someone will call you twice or thrice, and it will not be silenced now.
Silence: In silent mode, Choose if you want to put silent calls and notifications while the screen is on or when the device is locked.
Allow From calls is replaced with the Emergency bypass in iOS 10. Pick the contacts with which you want to set different ringtones while you enable Emergency Bypass. Tap on contact, tap on the edit button to choose a different ringtone, and now you can set an Emergency Bypass.
How to Remove Moon from text messages contacts:
At the time of the meeting or when you are in rest mode, it’s obvious that you have put your iPhone in Do Not Disturb mode. When all of these events are over and you want to disable the Do Not Disturb Function, how can you remove the moon symbol by disabling Do Not Disturb or Hide Alert mode on iPhone?
Ways are quite simple to remove Moon from text messages.
Method – 1
Step -1: If you are an iPhone X user, then As we know, open Control Center by Swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
Step – 2: Now, See Half Moon Symbol in Control Center. Tap on it, and it will turn down to white from purple.
That is how you can disable Do Not Disturb Instantly.
Method – 2
Step – 1: Turn off Do Not Disturb from Settings. Open your iPhone settings.
Step -2: Find Notification, and manually, you can turn down Do Not Disturb mode by toggling it off.
Method – 3
This method will show how to disable DND mode for particular contact.
Step – 1: Open the Messages app on your iPhone.
Step – 2: Now, Open the contact, which shows a Crescent moon.
Step – 3: You can see a Circle and a dot on the right corner of that opened contact. Open that details button.
Step – 4: It will take you to a detailed screen To see Hide Alerts toggles. Turn off that toggle; like that, you can remove the moon for particular contacts.
Using the Latest iOS after iOS 11 version will show a “Do Not Disturb” toggle.
The Fallback of Enabled Do Not Disturb mode is, sometimes, accidentally, deleting messages. What if? that deleted message is important?
Lots of message recovery software are there, but as a recommendation iMyFone, D-Back is best and most suitable to recover those deleted messages.
D-Back is a data recovery tool; using this recovery tool, you can restore deleted messages and not only deleted messages, but you can recover iTunes and iCloud data.
As of Now
We have seen the meaning of the half-moon symbol on the iPhone Screen. IPhone 6, iPhone 8, and iPhone X have this feature of Do Not Disturb of hiding Alerts. We have seen methods to disable Do Not Disturb of hiding Alerts on the iPhone. Half Moon is not a worrisome symbol but a valuable feature when you want to rest from notifications, beeps, and sounds.