iOS Set up Focus modes
Master Focus Filters across your devices
Focus can customise your Apple devices to make life much easier
IT WILL TAKE
15 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
How Focus can streamline your day
YOU’LL NEED
macOS 13 or later, or iOS/iPadOS 15 or later
Focus modes in macOS Ventura, iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and watchOS 9 are like a super-powered Do Not Disturb that enables you to customise your devices for specific times, places or tasks.
For example, you can create a Work Focus that only lets specific people contact you, or a Fitness Focus that blocks notifications from when you arrive at the gym until you leave, or an Evening Focus that turns off your work email so the boss can’t annoy you at night. And as we’ll discover, you can even change your phone’s Lock Screen and Home Screen on a per-Focus basis with different colours, different backgrounds and even different widgets.