How to activate 'Do Not Disturb' Service through Jio SMS

Reliance Jio users can opt out of promotional calls or messages, if they wish to do so. Every user is by default is eligible for getting Jio's promotional calls or messages. In case, you wish to opt out of promotional calls or messages, you have to activate Jio's "Do Not Disturb (DND)" feature.

In our earlier post, we have explained about activating the DND service through the Myjio application.

In this post, we would like to share the SMS procedure to activate DND service. Please send the SMS through the Jio mobile number for which the DND service needs to be activated.

Procedure to activate 'Do Not Disturb' Service using Jio SMS:

1) If you want to completely block all tele-marketing calls and messages,

Type 'START'[space] '[0]' and send the SMS through the Jio SIM to 1909.

Note that zero is the number to block all categories. An example in below screenshot:

Procedure to request complete activation of DND in Jio

2) In case, you want to allow only certain selected categories, then type 'START'[space]'[required category number as shown below, multiple numbers should be separated by comma]' and send the SMS to 1909.

Note that, this procedure should be followed after completing step-1 shown above. Through this procedure, telecalls from all sectors will be blocked except of the sector opted to be unblocked.

The representative numbers for various categories are listed below:

   1- For Banking/Insurance/Finance/Credit/Debit Sectors

   2- For Real Estate Sector

   3- For Education Sector

   4- For Health Sector

   5- For Consumer Goods/Automobile Sector

   6- For Communication/Broadcasting/Entertainment/IT Sectors

   7- For Tourism & Leisure Sectors

For allowing Real Estate Sector, An example is in below screen shot:

Procedure to request partial activation of DND in Jio

For allowing Education, Health and Real Estate Sector, an example is given in below screen shot:

Procedure to request partial activation of DND in Jio

Upon successful completion of this procedure, a confirmation message will be received with a unique registration number for your request as shown below:

Confirmation Message upon successful request