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The iOS 11 update keeps the safety of its users in mind with this interesting feature.

There's a new software on the iOS 11 that enables an automatic Do Not Disturb while the phone user is driving.

Notifications will be blocked from distracting the iPhone user while they are on the road, to reduce the number of accidents caused by people texting or talking on the phone while driving.

It is called the Do Not Disturb While Driving Feature and it will basically turn off your phone without actually turning it off, so no notifications of any kind will be able to get through.

The phone screen will be off and you will not see any notifications appearing unless you have disabled the feature or tell the phone that you are a passenger.

However, you can customise the feature to allow calls, texts from your favourite contacts to notify you even if you're driving, but the person will have to follow up their text with the word urgent in order to get through to you.

You can set the feature so it replies to your contacts with an automated message telling them that you're driving or the person can follow up their text with the word 'urgent' in order to get through to the notification barrier.

You can add this feature to your new personalised control centre at any time and enable/disable it from there.

How to turn on Do Not Disturb While Driving mode

1. Open settings

2. Click Do Not Disturb

3. Click Activate under Do Not Disturb While Driving option

4. Then choose whether you want the phone to manually enter the Do Not Disturb mode, so you would have to click it on, or whether you want it to automatically detect when you’re driving.

You can also choose the option to enable the Do Not Disturb when connected to Car Bluetooth, which is something people with fancy Bluetooth cars can enjoy.

5. Scroll down and you can change the auto-reply message that will be sent to people who text you or ring you while you’re driving.

6. The auto-reply by default will only be sent to your contacts that are Favourited, but you can also edit this so you will get notifications from Recent contacts or all contacts – or no one if you want to be alone with the road.

[http://metro.co.uk]