Adjusting the iOS Focus Settings on Apple Products

Posted: March 15, 2022

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="405"] Photo: Macworld[/caption] Apple devices running iOS 15, iPadOS 15, or macOS12, include the Focus feature. The Focus feature allows all notifications to be silenced and notifies other people you are not checking your phone. However, there are settings you can change to allow notifications from certain apps and individuals, but it's not exactly intuitive where all you need to adjust the settings to let those notifications come through. Glenn Fleishman, Senior Contributor for Macworld, explains how to change these settings.

How to adjust who can disrupt you in Focus mode in iOS and macOS

The Focus feature Apple added in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS 12 Monterey lets you create overrides for people and apps to notify you. But how do these overrides interact? If you add folks to the Allowed People list, do you also have to add FaceTime, Messages, Mail, Phone, and other apps for them to get through? Yes and no. If you add someone to Allowed People, their calls will pass through, and their text-based notifications will appear. You don’t need to enable Phone and Messages—in fact, you don’t want to do that. Calls are separately managed from notifications in Focus modes, and adding Messages to Allowed Apps will pass through all incoming notifications tied to Messages. Read the full article, How to adjust who can disrupt you in Focus mode in iOS and macOS, on Macworld.