Do not disturb exclusion doesn't work

[Yevhen Kliukin]

Given my phone is in sleep mode (activated from my Galaxy Watch 5 Pro) that includes do not disturb mode, when my dnd exclusion (wife's) contact is calling me - I don't hear that.

It's two days in a row, my wife is in maternity house and I would like to know when she's calling while I'm sleeping!!

[Tourbillon De La Vie]

To be safe stop using sleep mode till your wife returns home. 

Then troubleshoot why it is not working. Most likely something simple has been missed off in configuration 

[AndrewL]

@Yevhen Kliukin: Please try heading to the Galaxy Wearable app on your connected phone > Watch settings > Notifications > Sync Do not disturb with phone > On, to see if this helps. If you set the exception via Do not disturb on your phone, then this should hopefully allow calls from your wife to come through while the feature is active on your Watch5. 

[ferconsigli]

I have this same issue. None of the app notifications of the DND allowed apps work on bedtime mode. I have the "Sync Do not disturb with phone" option On. So I have to sleep with DND only and manually disable double touch activation and wrist gesture to prevent the watch turn on the sceeen in my sleep. But this is the only way notifications work ok.