iCreate - UK (2021-07)

Discover iOS 15

Maintaining your focus

How to stay trained on the task at hand in iOS 15

implemented many more cool features to
help us stay on track with our tasks, and these
features are collectively called Focus.
To start with, our notifications are clearer,
with larger app icons to help you track which
apps need attention. Also, contact photos
accompany messages and other forms of
communication. Apple has just introduced
Notification Summary, a handy round-up of
your notifications that you can schedule to
arrive. This summary is created using advanced
AI that monitors how you interact with apps,

and stacks the summary accordingly. It won’t

include personal messages but will strip the

less important stuff out of your Notification

Centre, and deliver it in one handy digest. Set

up this schedule by going to the Notifications

settings, and tap ‘Scheduled Summary’.

Focus also exists as a standalone section in

your iOS 15 Settings app, and here you will

be able to set up four categories of Focus:

Personal, Work, Sleep and Do Not Disturb.

Each essentially acts as a sheet of settings to

determine which people from your Contacts

can contact you, which apps can send you

notifications during the periods of execution

and even which Home Screens you can access.

For example, when setting up the ‘Work’

Focus, you can choose to only be notified by

co-workers, or apps such as Mail, Calendar

and Slack. Each Focus can be scheduled to

kick in at set times or you can enable them

manually through your Control Centre. You can

also create a custom Focus. It’s a good way of

blocking out distractions to only focus on what

you need to.

Instant access

You can schedule your Focus

periods to kick in at set times,

or you can enable them

instantly through your iOS 1 5

Control Centre (the ‘Focus’

control replaces the standard

‘Do Not Disturb’ option).

Setting up

You can set up your Focus

groups in Settings>Focus and

choose who can contact you,

and which apps can notify you

during these scheduled phases.

It’s a good way to switch off

from work for the night.

Your Focus groups

As well as using the more

general Do NotDisturb feature

to block everything, you can

create custom notification

sheets based on what you’re

doing. By default these include

Personal, Work and Sleep.

Adding more

Although four main Focus

categories are created by

default, you can also create

your own custom Focus for

anything, whether it’s family

time, you time orsometimes,

erm... Hammertime!