In plain English
They mark set times on a schedule when incoming notices stay silent. During those hours, alerts and notifications are muted.
In context
Here, “Quiet hours” labels the notification timing setting for the scheduled hours when alerts and notifications are muted.
- Situation
- Notification, privacy, data-export, and account-deletion settings
- What it communicates
- labels a notification timing setting
Meaning limits
The term by itself does not say when those hours occur or the exact way the muting is applied, because that can vary.
Examples
“The family chat stayed silent during Quiet hours and started buzzing again at 7 a.m.”
“On her tablet, she set Quiet hours from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weekdays.”