What is Focus Mode ?
Focus Mode is a part of Android’s suite of Digital Wellbeing & Parental Controls features. Focus Mode helps you maintain your focus by pausing distracting apps and their notifications and does not entirely restrict you from using apps you choose to pause. Also that it doesn’t affect your whole system, just the apps that you find most distracting. Here are the details:
Staying focused on a task while your smartphone is around you is a big distraction, Because in some cases, whenever we want to focus on our work at the same time, the notification tone is ‘ring,’ and this is annoying and very much disturbing. Focus Mode essentially enables you to devote all of your focus to the work at hand, be it a video call, presentation, web search for a project. If the moniker Focus Mode seems familiar, it’s because the iPhone and iPad have a similar feature. But the implementation is slightly different in both.
Stop unwanted notifications with focus mode
Focus Mode on Android, will turn the icon of select apps as grey and put a ‘pause’ on them and ensures that their notifications are hidden.
Also, you won’t receive notifications from those apps until you disable the feature. Whenever you enable Focus Mode or set it to activate on schedule, any apps you add to your distractions list will appear grayed out. Here’s how it works.
How To Set Up Focus Mode in Android?
Open Settings by swiping down twice from the top of the screen or by scrolling through icons on the homepage and selecting the gear Settings icon.
Go to Digital Wellbeing & Parental Controls. Select Focus Mode.
The first thing to do is select the apps you want to block during Focus Mode. Scroll down and select the apps you’d like to pause while Focus mode is enabled. To enable focus mode, toggle it on by tapping Turn on now.
Or Set a schedule. If you choose to set a schedule, here, you can change its start and end times, along with which days of the week you want it to activate automatically.
Once you’ve set your preferred schedule, tap on Set > Turn on now. Focus mode will stay active until you toggle it off. Focus mode will activate and deactivate automatically based on your settings. It’ll show a notification in both cases a few minutes before it turns on or off.
Temporarily disable Focus mode.
If you tap on a grayed-out app, select OK to acknowledge the “Focus mode is on” notice or choose the Use app for 5 minutes option to use the app for five minutes.
To take a longer break, swipe down from the top of the screen and long tap on the focus mode. Then tap Take a break.
And choose 5 minutes, 15 minutes, or 30 minutes for the duration of the break.
You can also tap Turn off for now if you want to disable the feature.