Apply Focus on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

With iOS fifteen and iPadOS 15, Focus lets you lot stay in the moment when you demand to concentrate or step abroad from your device. You lot tin customize Focus settings and choose when y'all want to receive alerts and notifications, while letting other people and apps know when you're busy.

iPhone screen showing Focus screen

Plough on Focus

  1. Go to Settings > Focus.
  2. Tap a provided Focus option — like Do Non Disturb, Personal, or Slumber — and so turn on the Focus.
  3. Afterward you choose a Focus, select options like Allowed Notifications, Time Sensitive Notifications, and Focus Condition.

When yous prepare a Focus, you can select Allowed Notifications from people and apps. You can besides enable Time Sensitive notifications from apps, which allows apps not in your allowed list to send notifications marked as Time Sensitive.

You tin can besides turn on Focus from Control Center. Just open up Control Eye on your iPhone or iPod bear upon, or on your iPad, touch and hold Focus, then select the Focus you want to turn on.

When you set a Focus, the icon appears in the status bar and on your Lock Screen, and your condition is automatically displayed in the Messages app. When people try to transport you a bulletin, they'll see that yous've silenced notifications, but they can still notify you if it's urgent.

When y'all use Focus on one device, the setting is automatically practical across your Apple tree devices that are signed in with the same Apple ID.

Set up a custom Focus

If you desire to concentrate on an activity that's different from any of the provided Focus options, you tin can create a Custom Focus. Here's how:

iPhone screen showing how to create a custom Focus.

  1. Go to Settings > Focus.
  2. Tap the Add button, then tap Custom or browse boosted options.

  3. Enter a name for your Focus.

  4. Choose a color and an icon to represent your Focus, then tap Next.

  5. Customize the options for your Focus.

Share your Focus status

When you set a Focus, y'all tin can plow on Share Focus Condition so that apps display to people who message you that y'all have notifications silenced. The apps only know that you accept notifications silenced. Apps don't know which Focus you have turned on, so the proper name is never shared. Focus status is shared in apps when you lot have a Focus turned on and after you give an app permission.

To plow Focus Status on:

  1. Go to Settings > Focus.
  2. Select the Focus y'all set up.
  3. Tap Focus Status, then turn it on.

Customize settings for Home Screen

After you lot set upwardly Focus, yous can silence notifications or permit only notifications from the people and apps that match your Focus. You can also customize a Domicile Screen page that has but apps related to your Focus and make that page the just 1 attainable during the time you take the Focus enabled. Here'south how:

  1. Go to Settings > Focus.
  2. Select the Focus that yous desire to customize, then tap Home Screen.
  3. Plough on Custom Pages, then select the Dwelling house Screen pages y'all want to employ during this Focus.
  4. Tap Done.

From hither, yous can too turn on Hide Notification Badges, which hides notifications on your Home Screen apps.

Customize settings for Lock Screen

  1. Go to Settings > Focus.
  2. Select the Focus that you want to customize, then tap Lock Screen.
  3. Turn on Dim Lock Screen or Show On Lock Screen.

Add a schedule or automation

You can schedule a Focus to activate at certain times, when you're at a detail location, or when you open specific apps. Here's how:

iPhone screen show New Automation settings for Focus

To fix a schedule based on certain times, locations, or apps:

  1. Go to Settings > Focus, then tap the Focus that you desire to schedule.
  2. Under Turn on Automatically, tap Add Schedule or Automation.
  3. Choose when you want the automation to happen, and so follow the onscreen steps.

To apply Smart Activation, which volition automatically apply your Focus at relevant times throughout the day:

  1. Get to Settings > Focus, then tap the Focus that you want to activate automatically.
  2. Tap Smart Activation.
  3. Tap Washed.

When yous turn on Smart Activation, it automatically turns on the Focus at relevant times throughout the day based on your signals, like location and app usage.

*Depending on the blazon of Focus you're using, the steps might vary. For example, you lot might come across Add Schedule or Automation or only Automation.

Allow Time Sensitive notifications

When yous first set a Focus, you tin can turn on Time Sensitive Notifications to allow people and apps to notify you lot immediately, even when you take a Focus turned on. Here'southward how:

  1. Go to Settings > Focus.
  2. Select the Focus, then tap Apps under Allowed Notifications.
  3. Turn on Fourth dimension Sensitive.

iPhone screen showing how to enable Emergency Bypass

You can likewise allow sure contacts to attain you in the event of an emergency, fifty-fifty when you have a Focus fix. Here's how:

  1. Open Contacts and select a contact.
  2. Tap Edit, tap Ringtone or Text Tone, and then turn on Emergency Bypass.
  3. Tap Done.

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