How to put your phone in vacation mode

In an undated image provided by Apple, create a custom mode that gives you more control over nonessential notifications, calls and messages until you’re ready to deal with them. — Apple via The New York Times

Ready to get away for that late-summer vacation and want fewer interruptions from your phone or tablet while you’re gone? Consider setting up a custom Vacation mode that sends most callers to voicemail and mutes notifications from unimportant apps – but still allows calls and messages from specific people to get through, as well as alerts from designated apps. You just have to set up the Vacation mode once, and then turn it on whenever you’re off. Here’s how.

Using Apple devices