With the introduction of iOS 15 and focus mode, I have once again wished that I could find a simple way (on a standard, non-jailbroken iPhone) to temporarily silence all sounds, including alarms, for some period of time. The main use case here, is that I have a lot of daily alarms that are always set, but some times, I am at the theater or in a special meeting, where I do not want them to go off. Turning the alarms off and on, or giving them a silent ringtone, is not really a viable option. I'd love a control panel switch or focus mode setting that could handle this, if there was one. A fancy shortcut automation might be an option, but I'm guessing that it would still be a bit difficult to make generic enough and reliable. Using a non-Apple app for Alarms, might be one possible approach, as I think that would be silenced, but that solution isn't ideal since most of my workflow relies on the built in alarm functionality at the moment. Does anyone know how to accomplish this (now or in the future)? ***EDIT***: Although the list of active, recurring alarms does not change all the time, it does change frequently enough, that I'd prefer a solution that could silence all enabled alarms and then un-silence that same list without needing to maintain the list, simply because it will be error prone. As much as I like Apple products in general, the lack of a real "theater" silent mode in 2021 is completely baffling.

I remember in previous versions of macOS whenever DND mode was enabled the app icon badges in the dock would be disabled. This makes sense as I do not want to be disturbed by my "unread" count judging me. Since I updated to Big Sur this feature is gone. A google search comes out empty, with only an app by an independent developer as the solution, but the app's website is gone. Thank you for your suggestions.

I'm trying to build a Shortcut for switching to Do Not Disturb for a given number of minutes. Afterwards, the previous Focus mode should be restored. For example, I have a mode called "Work". When starting the Shortcut and providing 1 minute as input, I want it to switch to Do Not Disturb for 1 minute, and switch back to Work afterwards. My problem is that restoring the previous Focus mode does not work. Instead, DND turns off as expected, but then it turns on DND again, and not the previous Focus mode. Here's how my Shortcut currently looks: I added Speak as debug output, and it correctly outputs "Work" for the example described above, both before prompting for input, as well as after waiting till DND is over. I also added additional 10 seconds of waiting, to make sure I'm not running into race conditions, but that doesn't change anything. Does anyone know how to restore the previous Focus mode correctly?

I'm setting up a new MacBook Pro with macOS Ventura. I'm excited about the new Focus Modes, and created a custom mode called Video Conferencing. My goal is for the Focus Mode to turn on when I'm running Zoom or Skype, and to turn off when I quit those applications. Looking at the UI, it seems clear that's how it's supposed to work: Video Conferencing will turn on when zoom.us is opened and turn off when it's closed. While it is turning on when I open Zoom, and off when I close Zoom, it's also toggling every time I put focus on a different app, or come back to Zoom. How do I keep the Focus Mode enabled while the app is running, and automatically disabled when the app closes?

I'm looking to somehow have my MacBook go into do not disturb or the new updated "focus" mode upon certain Scheduled events. I've put tag's in the notes of the events that I want to trigger FOCUS and I've set up the Automator app thus far, but there is no option for focus settings. The goal is to trigger focus once an event starts or an allotted time before it. Is there any way to program in a focus setting's pane or other workarounds?

iPhone 14, iOS v17.5.1 I've setup work focus and bedtime DND. I want a few other iOS users to _see_ that I have a focus set in iMessage (eg. 🌜 Nick has notifications silenced), while still allowing those messages to bypass the focus and notify me (haptic when on silent, ringtone when not). My phone is pretty much always set to silent. I see two options: 1. The "Allow Notifications" list for each focus 1. A contact's "emergency bypass" setting for texting/calling. Problems with these: Once I add a contact to the allow list on the focus, they don't appear to see that I have a focus set at all. They don't see the "has notifications silenced" message. If, instead, I add the contact as an emergency bypass, they *do* see my focus status, but it plays the text/ring tone when in silent. This is annoying. I could set a custom silent ringtone for them but when *not* on silent I'd want it to ring. So, unless I've missed something it doesn't look like I can have someone aware of my focus but also receive their notifications in the way I want while in that focus.

What I want -- I have the Work focus scheduled during my work hours. I have several work-related apps that I would like to allow notifications from only whenever I happen to have the Work focus on. Otherwise, I don't want to hear from them. What I tried -- 1. Disabling the notifications for these apps under Settings → Notifications and then specifically whitelisting them in the Work focus settings. This didn't work because, I guess, Notifications settings have priority and a focus can't overwrite them. 2. Considered re-enabling notifications for these work-related apps and then scheduling the Personal focus for hours outside work, where I would disable them. But that sounds too much because I don't really need a focus for my personal time (except for this issue). I am not sure what other restrictions it would impose and it would show up to other people in iMessage as if I do not want to be disturbed. So is there a way to allow specific apps only during a specific focus and mute them otherwise?

Lots of notifications distract from work but ignoring them is bad. Is there any possibility to receive all notifications like on every 0 minute of an hour. Something like: 6:30 - New calendar notification [not shown, scheduled] 6:31 - New skype notification [not shown, scheduled] 6:45 - New slack notification [not shown, scheduled] 7:00 - Show all notifications [calendar, skype, slack] I tried to google how to do that, but I didn't find.

By default, the 'Focus' button in the control center of macOS provides three options. Among them, there is a 'For 1 hour'. I would like to have a similar 'Focus' with its duration configurable, such as 2 hours or so. But looking into the settings, it seems that one can only 'schedule' a Focus like from 13:00 to 14:30. This is rather different from the duration-only thing. How to do this?

Unitl Monterey you could enable DND when mirroring your screen to an external monitor, via notifications -> DND -> Tick "Turn on when mirroring to TVs and projectors" In Monterey, however, the entry for DND is gone and the Focus tab was created. Has anyone found a way to reproduce the old behavior, that the DND-Focus gets activated when mirroring to an external screen.

My wife leads a very scheduled life. She has a meeting every morning from 6 to 8 am and does not want it interrupted by phone rings or text boops, so she sets the phone to silent. And never turns it back. So it is nearly impossible to call her. Simple solution, use clock to turn to silent and back to active. Nope, doesn't do that. Must be an app for that! Nope. A few apps claim so but actually just set timers to remind you to turn it back on and, since it is in silent mode, they just flash the screen. Which does little good in a purse. How can we accomplish this either with built-in functionality or with an app?

Do Not Disturb on my Mac keeps enabling itself at midnight or after every reboot even though I do not have it scheduled. As you can see from the screenshot below, DND is not enabled at all. What could be causing DND to automatically enable? I am running El Capitan

My iPhone has always been in do not disturb mode. Before the most recent iOS update, to 15(.2.1), it used to be the case that notifications would show on my lockscreen. Now they never do. How can I get notifications to appear on my lockscreen again? To clarify, I would like the same behaviour I had before updating to iOS 15: - notifications pile up onto my lockscreen, but do not make sound or vibration - I never get any kind of pop-up notifications or alert sounds when I have unlocked and am using my phone

Has anyone found a way to turn on Do Not Disturb mode for every device from one. Often times when I'm trying to work and people won't shut up I turn on DND mode on my MBP but then my iPhone will start dinging away. So I turn on DND mode there too. Then iPad starts up etc. This is an almost endless process. There's an additional 2 other Macs tied into my iCloud account. I've been tempted to just turn it off completely but it's about as handy as it is annoying. Also find that when I need to turn DND mode off I forget on 1 device or more causing some annoyance if I actually need the notifications. Ideally I'd like to be able to activate DND mode globally from my MBP. I'm curious if anyone else has seen a possible solution to this.

I have an iPad I use occasionally for specific tasks, and I want it to never have any notifications. I have my iPhone for that. I used to set my iPad to Do Not Disturb and this easily solved my problem, but apparently with the new Focus features Do Not Disturb is now a setting that takes affect across all my devices! When I turn it on for the iPad, it also turns it on for my iPhone! Now I do want my iPad connected to my Apple ID and have access to things like Facetime and Messages, since I do use these sometimes, but again I don't want notifications for any of it. How do I fix this?

It seems that maybe for some odd reason WhatsApp calls do but FTA ones don't. Why could this be?

My MacBook Air has a Focus/Do Not Disturb/DND/crescent moon physical key that I press to activate that mode. It used to activate until night time or until the next morning but now it just activates for 30 minutes or so. I've tried to manually change the duration of activation and that works for the day, but the following day it goes back to only activating for 30 mins. Official support documents haven't been very helpful. How do I set this key to activate Focus mode for a specified period longer than 30 mins?

When i switch my iPhone 5 (iOS 7) to "Do Not Disturb"-Mode, and also activate "Always" in the Silence-Settings, it vibrates when it is unlocked. > So when i am reading an iMessage, and it arrives a new one, my iPhone > vibrates. **I want to switch my iPhone completely silent with this option**, but it is really possible? I can turn off vibration, of course, but i really don't know what Do Not Disturb really does! It turns of Vibration and Sound when new Notifications arriving, but when i am using the Phone, it should be complete silent as well. > Is this a bug or just a missing feature?

Most Android phones have such a feature. iPhone's "Do Not Disturb" works, but just mentioned [here](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/87490) and [here](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7451591) , it rejects all others instead of keeping silent.

I want to use my Apple Watch for sleep tracking, and want to use sleep mode so the watch display is completely off while I sleep. However, I need my iPhone to NOT turn on Do Not Disturb (I need to be able to hear certain app notifications) when sleep mode is activated on the watch. I haven't been able to get this to work yet. Is this possible?