Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and ios 15 brings a bunch of new refinement and features and
so i wanted to show you one of my favorite or most helpful features and that's called focus
if you're familiar with do not disturb on ios 14 focus mode enhances that to give you many more
options and much more customization so i wanted to walk you through those different options how
you can use them and how you can even customize them based on your location time of day or even
the app you open which will switch between the different modes so in your control center you'll
see it says do not disturb and if i tap on this you'll see i have a bunch of different options now
i have work sleep weekend mindfulness home evening and driving and i can even add more
and i can highly customize each one of these this has replaced do not disturb in your settings as
well so if you go into settings scroll down you'll see it now says focus instead of do not disturb
all of those same modes are available here as well so you have the same options here with an option
to quickly enable them in your control center and so i wanted to show you how to customize those so
first let's customize them then i'll show you how you can automate them and then also how you
can enable them throughout the day manually as well and so the first thing is we have a bunch
of different options and you'll see it says share across devices now when you're sharing
across devices they will automatically enable across your devices including your apple watch
and your ipad or your mac or whatever you have set up with the latest versions of ios ipad os watch
os and mac os and so the first thing is we have do not disturb that's here automatically driving
and the others but maybe we want to customize one so we can do that by pressing on the plus button
within the plus button you'll see it says what do you want to focus on custom fitness gaming
personal or reading so we'll select custom and under custom we can name it to whatever we'd
like so maybe we'll just name it new focus just so i can show you an example now under new focus
we have the option for different colors so we can select whatever color we'd like and then also give
it an icon that represents the focus we're talking about so you have some books and you can scroll
down and see a bunch of different ones from shapes to books to maybe transit some headphones we'll
just leave it alone for now but you get the idea that you can customize it based on what you'd like
once you've done that tap on next and now it's going to give you the option to allow people to
give you notifications even if that focus mode is enabled so maybe you have some people that
are critical that they contact you during your focus mode whether that be a family member or
child or significant other or even employers or employees you'll be able to add them within
your contacts here to allow those notifications to come through so you can add a person remove
a person remove all the people or just have people from your favorites so it's up to you
if you want those notifications to come through or not so you can allow those or allow none i'll tap
on allow none and then it gives us the option to allow apps for notifications so we have a bunch of
different apps maybe we get a ton of notifications from mail or instagram or twitter or anything else
we can either allow those or fully disallow those so we can add an app and you'll see that they're
categorized alphabetically so you have all of your different apps and whether or not you want
notifications from them is completely up to you during that focus mode i have some customized
for work and some for home and just however you want it set up is up to you and relevant to what
you're doing at that time so you can set that up if you want notifications from fitness or facetime
or not at all it's up to you you can also allow apps that are time sensitive to come through so
maybe you have a calendar set up with meetings and you want those to come through either way you may
want to turn that on so that will allow apps not in your allowed list to send notifications
marked as time sensitive immediately so maybe you need to not miss that meeting it will still
come through even if the focus mode is enabled so we'll go ahead and tap on allow and the next
thing it says your focus is ready now that's the basics of setting up a focus mode but there's a
lot more within that focus mode but first let me show you how to enable it now it's pretty
easy you can just go into your control center tap on the focus mode you want and then maybe enable
work once i do that it will immediately enable it on nearby devices that are tied to the account
because i have that option selected if i go back to new focus it will enable new focus
and you'll see it flips to that mode and if i go to my apple watch it will do the same if i scroll
down you'll see the little smiley face there it's enabled across all of my devices again that that
takes place across driving or do not disturb and there's options that are slightly different
between different sorts of focus modes and what i mean by that is if you are in a driving focus mode
you can have it auto respond so within a driving focus mode you have the option to auto reply
so you can auto reply with a message saying i'm driving or you can change that entirely you can
turn on the focus modes within settings as well just go to the different ones and turn it on here
enable it this way or your control center or however you'd like so it's really easy to
enable and of course you can use siri as well to enable those so if i press and hold or i can say
siri with the word hey in front of it let's go ahead and try this enable the sleep focus mode
and you'll see it says i turned on sleeping mode or i turned sleeping mode on so it will enable it
using siri or however you'd like you have multiple options but the best way to enable these i think
is through customization based on location so if we go into our new focus that we created already
we have the option to add a schedule or automation now we can customize our home screen and lock
screen to go along with this i'll show that in just a moment but you can add a schedule
or automation to enable the focus mode based on time location or app or smart activation
it will learn what you do over time and then suggest that focus mode so you can do that if
you'd like but i like to use location but you can use location or time when i arrive at work flip
to the work mode when i arrive home switch back to home and it works pretty seamlessly
and i have that enabled just like that when i arrive home it switches to home evening for me
but we can schedule a time and so you can schedule it based on time of day and day so we'll just hit
done to set it as default and you'll see it automatically switch to that new focus mode
because it's within that time frame so every day it will turn on the new focus focus mode between
9am and 5pm in my timezone it will just turn on automatically once it hits 5pm it will switch off
so it's set up that way but you can set it up based on location like i said or wherever you'd
like when you arrive at someone's house you arrive home arrive to work or so on so it's really nice
and works very very well and another thing that i really like is the option to change your home
screen based on that focus with prior ios versions we have the option to change our home screens and
customize them with different apps you'll see i have a home screen and i have the app library but
if i press and hold and go into jiggle mode tap on the dots here at the bottom we have all of our
different home screens and i can customize these to be active during a specific focus mode so i can
have it set up one way for one focus mode and an entirely different way for a different focus mode
so the first thing you'll need to do is customize your home screens in order to do that you'll need
to turn off all focus modes altogether so turn off your focus mode just tap on it turns it off
or you could use siri and now you've got your home screens press and hold go into jiggle mode
and then you can go into your home screens you can enable one or just create an entirely new
custom home screen here's one i created that might work for fitness so you'll see this one just has
three widgets it has your music your activity and the weather so maybe you want to go outside
you want to check the weather beforehand you can do that it can be customized however you'd like
and that's why you can add multiple icons i could add music to this home screen and a separate home
screen you can fully customize it to your liking now so now if we go back into our focus modes
we'll go into our new focus we'll enable that tap on the three dots tap on settings and within here
you'll see we have home screen under home screen we have the option to hide our notification badges
so we don't want to be bothered by the notification badges on our home screen
we also have the option to select custom pages so let's do that so you'll see i have our home screen
i want my home screen enabled and maybe this screen enabled during this specific focus mode
we'll hit done and you'll see that i have those two pages selected and during this focus i want
all of the notification badges turned off you'll see i have no notification badges now none of
them are there so they don't distract me during this focus mode now if i switch to a different
focus maybe i switch to do not disturb go back home you'll see i have the same
pages because i just customized them that way however if i switch to maybe work go back home
you'll see all the sudden i have a bunch of different home pages enabled so there's a bunch
of them enabled as i switch back to a different focus mode our new focus that we just created
and we'll just turn it on for an hour now you'll see now we only have two home screens
so now we can fully customize based on time of day where we're located based on our focus mode sleep
even what it looks like it changes our home screen changes our notification mutes them and also holds
them later on for us in our notification drop down so if i pull down notifications
you'll see there's our notification center and should i've gotten a bunch of notifications it
will let me know throughout the day that these were held during your focus mode and then you
can expand those and look at those you also have the option to customize your lock screen as well
if you go into lock screen within your settings you can dim the lock screen during your focus mode
or silence your notifications but show them on your lock screen you can also change the focus
modes on the lock screen so if we go to the lock screen tap the focus mode we can change them from
here so we have all of this customization with the option to switch between all of these different
focus modes that will sync between our devices and is smart and knows where we are and switch is
based on that throughout the day you can customize this as much as you'd like or not at all you don't
have to use it but it's nice to have this level of customization to really help focus throughout
the day i find that it helps tremendously when i'm filming a video i flip on do not disturb when i'm
at work it's on work at night it automatically switches to sleep and on the weekend it switches
to weekend where i don't have any distractions and i can relax so you have all of these different
options and again for driving while you're driving so you have all of these different options that
are incredibly helpful highly customizable and i think are one of the best things i've seen
in a long time to be on ios so hopefully that helps you understand focus a little bit better
and if you have any other questions or suggestions i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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