focus

Ok, something that's been driving me crazy. Weeks ago I decided to actively use Focus modes in macOS (and iOS) and Profiles in Safari. It's pretty basic : macOS "work" Focus = Open Safari in "Work" profile. Work well enough. But it seems that when you have no active "macOS Focus mode"...

Is there a way to set up Focus or use Shortcuts to have a specific Focus on for a set amount of time -- and then turn it off automatically after that amount of time? So far I can only seem to find how to turn it on and off automatically at specific times of day but what I really want is to turn...

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I have two sims on Vodafone Australia on an iPhone 15 Pro 17.2, and the auto-reply from Driving is only sent to one of them. I have spoken to support for an hour and wasn't getting anywhere. I know this is an issue for many, and I wondered if anyone had some personal experience fixing it. One of...

Hi all, I’d like some help please. Running iOS 17.2 beta 3. When I activate a focus mode such as sleep or do not disturb, my calls are not diverting to voicemail, and callers are instead just getting the busy tone. My carrier setting are active to divert calls to voicemail when busy...

I want an "Out of Office" focus mode where I don't see or hear any notifications from Outlook or Teams. In general, it works okay but I've got one issue - I still get notifications shoved to my Notification Center. On the phone, they are hidden so I can kind of ignore them, but they aren't on my...

My days old iPhone 15 Plus developed three faults in what seemed like a production failure. 1. The main camera wouldn’t focus. (The wide angle camera was fine) 2. Landscape rotation failed. 3. After a Genius Bar visit their tests showed the accelerometer had also failed. The Genius Bar staff...

Hey everyone, I use different focuses on my devices throughout the day, and wanted to setup an app focus filter via Fantastical to turn a specific calendar set on for specific focuses. This works as expected on my iPad, but on my iPhone the app filters are just not visible. When going into...

Is there a way to stop notifications coming through during a fitness+ session on iPhone? I use fitness+ on iphone at the gym and have my phone unlocked for me to follow along. I'm still getting banner notifications during my workout which is very distracting. My phone enters fitness focus, but...

Hi. I wrote a little bash script that runs in the background (launched by crontab) which uses osascript's (AppleScript's) 'display dialog' command to throw up a dialog box on my screen. Works great. Trouble is, the dialog box also takes the input focus. I want the dialog box to appear, but...

I have multiple focus set across all my devices. For example Do Not Disturb from 10pm to 8am every day Personal from 6am to 830pm every weekday Despite these settings, if I have my office mail open in Safari on my MacMini, I hear the new email notification pings during the night. On my phone...

Hi everyone, I need help with this because it’s a weird change and I seem to be the only one complaining. If you go to settings > focus > sleep > options > sleep screen > on Before this was a behavior that was trigged only if I had the sleep focus on, but now with the latest update the...

I have started using the Work Focus Mode while working and it's really helping me. There's just one problem: Sometimes I need to set Reminders or Calendar events that are important and need to show up even while the Focus Mode is active. I realise that I can do that by enabling Time Sensitive...

Is there away to add my stocks to Focus?

So it turns out that if you have more than one Lock Screen and choose any of them besides the first one, it will automatically revert to the first one every time you switch focus on or off. This is crazy. I honestly thought the whole point of being able to create different lock screens would be...

I want to have two phones - one is my work phone, and the other has zero work stuff on it. I'm trying to figure out how to make this work without having to provide a new phone number to work related people/clients for calls and messages, and without having to switch sim cards between phones...

I have just factory erased my 13 PM and Work Focus stopped working when I arrive at my work location. I've deleted the Focus entirely and created it from fresh but it's still not activating nor disabling (if I leave the location). Any ideas?

My wife has an iPhone 13 running 15.4.1. She is a busy attorney who seems to get phone calls constantly, day and night. We're having a horrible time getting Do Not Disturb to block phone calls at night. The "Driving" focus also fails to block incoming calls. The problem seems to be that Allow...

I found this mega annoying on Windows and was hoping it would not be an issue on my Mac. But it is! 😢 Let's say I'm working on something inside one app - typing an email, and then another app that I launched before takes over and I'm now typing inside of it. Grr! Maybe that app was stuck and...

Hi folks! First of all sorry for my poor english ? I need your help just to discard a problem with my unit 13 Pro Max before to take it to an Apple Store… My problem is with the autofocus recording videos… When I start a video with te 1x lens and want to close up something, the iPhone don’t...