Learn more about Silent Mode

Your Norton product lets you manually turn on Silent Mode for a specified duration. When Silent Mode is turned on, your Norton product suppresses alerts and suspends background activities for the duration that you specify. You can verify the turn-on status of Silent Mode in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar. The Norton product icon in the notification area changes from yellow outer circle to gray to display the turn-on status of Silent Mode. Turning on Silent Mode manually before you perform your tasks helps you prevent alerts, notifications, or background activities interrupting you for the specified duration.

You can turn on Silent Mode for the allowable duration. After the specified duration, your Norton product turns off Silent Mode. You can also manually turn off Silent Mode at any time. Your Norton product notifies you after Silent Mode is turned off. The activities that are suspended when Silent Mode is turned on run after Silent Mode is turned off.

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