What Happened to the Silent Button in 8.1?

Nokia Lumia 822

Before the upgrade to 8.1 I could press the top of the screen of the phone and a button would appear to silence or unsilence the phone. After the 8.1 upgrade the button appears to be gone. The only way to silence the ringer is to use the volume button to reduce everything to zero. Then I have to use the volume button to increase the sound to a point I can hear it.

Is there a way to get the silence button back?

Accepted answers

bbjr

8.1 added "Quiet Hours" to the Notification area. It is much easier to use, and can be set up to silence the phone automatically under certain circumstances.

All comments

primortal

Just tap the volume button and once the levels appear tap on the number for the ringer. It will automatically switch to vibrate and when you tap it again it will go back to the level you set it to prior.

CooperLandLine

If I tap the volume button and tap the number for the ringer I get two scroll bars -- one for the ringer + notifications and one for Media + Apps. I have to set them both to zero.

Windows 8 was much better -- a single tap to silence the phone.

primortal

Like I said, tap the numbers to switch to vibrate; tap again to return to normal volume.

CooperLandLine

Like I said Windows 8 was easier. One click to silince the phone.

The process you describe works but it is more complicated and requires more user action than the Windows 8.0 OS required.

Once again Microsoft has forgotten the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle.

Please note that I have been using Microsoft OS since the early DOS days (which Microsoft licensed but did not develop).

bbjr

8.1 added "Quiet Hours" to the Notification area. It is much easier to use, and can be set up to silence the phone automatically under certain circumstances.