TIFU by not realizing my phone was on “Do not Disturb” and then my family called the police because they thought something happened to me

I’m 26M living alone, while my older sister lives about 65 km (40 miles) away, and my parents live in another country. This incident actually happened last night.

Yesterday, I bought a new T-shirt from a boutique store and decided to take some pictures in my apartment building’s laundry room where the lighting was really good. I was moving around trying to find the right angles and spent about an hour editing the photos afterward. I struggle with body dysmorphia and OCD, so I don’t post photos publicly, but sometimes I take them just for myself—moments where I feel okay with how I look.

Unbeknownst to me, my phone was on “Do Not Disturb” the entire time. It was an accident. When I finally checked my phone an hour later, I saw multiple missed calls and a WhatsApp message from my sister saying our mother had been crying because I wasn’t answering.

I called my mother immediately, but she started yelling at me. She told me my sister had even called the police to request a wellness check because they thought something had happened to me. My sister was also on the verge of asking her friend to drive her all the way to my city to check on me. All this happened because I wasn’t picking up for an hour…

Apparently, my father and sister had also been monitoring my location through Find My, and they saw I was constantly moving around—because I was walking around the laundry room taking and editing photos.

To make matters worse, my mother showed me an awful photo of me from December 2024 that they were planning to give to the police. That photo immediately triggered me. At the end of all this, I told my mother and sister, “If I ever actually go missing, please show the police better pictures of me,” and sent them some of the photos I took yesterday and this past month in my building’s laundry room.

TL;DR: I spent an hour taking and editing photos in my building’s laundry room with “Do Not Disturb” on. My family panicked when I didn’t answer, called 999 for a wellness check, and tracked my movements, which were just me trying to get good angles. I told them that if something actually happens to me and they need to show police photos of me, to actually send ones where I don’t look hideous.