Discover nine tips to prevent your iPhone, iPad, or Mac from auto-enabling Focus modes, ensuring you don't miss important calls or notifications.
How to stop accidental DND or Focus activation on iPhone and Mac

Discover nine tips to prevent your iPhone, iPad, or Mac from auto-enabling Focus modes, ensuring you don't miss important calls or notifications.
Life comes with a lot of distractions, but I wouldn’t be alone in saying that the proliferation of smartphones in everyday life has greatly exacerbated the problem with distractions, especially given just how many apps we have notifying us about menial things throughout the day.
Remember the good ol’ days when you could just open Control Center and tap on a dedicated Do Not Disturb toggle to silence all your notifications? Yeah… we do too.
When you turn on Do Not Disturb mode on iOS 14, you’re served with a persistent Lock Screen banner notification that reminds you of the feature being turned on and when it’s expected to turn off.
Interrupted by Messages, WhatsApp, Slack, Teams, Mail, and other app notifications during Do Not Disturb? In this tutorial, we'll show you how to stop text and app notifications when your iPhone is in DND Focus mode.
Learn how to stop getting phone, FaceTime, and other calls during Do Not Disturb or Focus mode on your iPhone or iPad.
iOS 15 made several improvements to the iPhone’s native Do Not Disturb feature, essentially rebranding it as “Focus” and adding new features. So we would understand if you feel like you’re missing out while using a jailbroken iOS 14 device.
Learn how to set up and use Do Not Disturb (DND) on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch to minimize distractions and stay focused while working, driving, or resting.
Do Not Disturb is one of my most-used features when it comes to my iPhone and iPad. That’s because sometimes I just want to watch a movie, play a game, or get productive without an app pinging me with notifications that would otherwise break my concentration.
One of the significant upgrades we see in iOS & iPadOS 15 is Focus, which is essentially an upgraded version of the handy Do Not Disturb feature with powerful settings so that users can filter incoming notifications to just those that suit their current activities.
Last month, we showed you a free jailbreak tweak called DNDBadges by iOS developer Ichitaso that turned your Home Screen’s app icon badges purple whenever Do Not Disturb mode was enabled.
I love using my iPhone to listen to music, but I can’t lie – I really can’t stand how iOS reduces the music playback volume when a notification tone comes through. This problem really becomes evident when your favorite part of the song is about to come up and someone just happens to text message you at that exact moment.
All I can say to that is… Ugh!