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focus modes - how do you add lots of apps/people quickly?

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mrklaw

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Nice idea. I want to have a work mode which allows notifications from teams/slack etc. Honestly most apps should be fine but I can disable some spammy ones. and for home it’ll be mostly ‘everything’ except teams/slack turned off.

But when I go to set up a focus, it suggests a handful of apps and people then I have to add extras one by one. Surely there is a way to ‘add all’ and then I can go and deselect a few? I have hundreds of contacts and probably more than a hundred apps, I don’t want to do that one by one - and then repeat that for each profile
 
for contacts, you can just allow Call for everyone and allow the message app. This is the same as "allow everyone".

For apps, unfortunately there is no other way than select them one by one at the moment
 
Nicolas Som said:
for contacts, you can just allow Call for everyone and allow the message app. This is the same as "allow everyone".

For apps, unfortunately there is no other way than select them one by one at the moment
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Suggest giving Apple feedback on this. It is a glaring miss, in my estimation. Applefeedback://
(You have to use that url as the Feedback app is removed from the RC)
 
gwhizkids said:
Suggest giving Apple feedback on this. It is a glaring miss, in my estimation. Applefeedback://
(You have to use that url as the Feedback app is removed from the RC)
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already did :) I want an option to inverse the logic they put: allow everything and everyone except....
 
wow surprising ommision. You’d think for most people the inverse (allow all and selectively blacklist) would be the preferred option - or at least a very common one
 
Just curious can you have a not allowed list option? Or do I have to add ever single contact to be allowed. Only a few work contacts I don’t want notifications at certain times text/phone calls but I currently use DND and is super annoying as it blocks notifications from everyone
 
leprekon666 said:
Just curious can you have a not allowed list option? Or do I have to add ever single contact to be allowed. Only a few work contacts I don’t want notifications at certain times text/phone calls but I currently use DND and is super annoying as it blocks notifications from everyone
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that's what we just said above. You don't have a "not allowed" list.
 
mrklaw said:
Nice idea. I want to have a work mode which allows notifications from teams/slack etc. Honestly most apps should be fine but I can disable some spammy ones. and for home it’ll be mostly ‘everything’ except teams/slack turned off.

But when I go to set up a focus, it suggests a handful of apps and people then I have to add extras one by one. Surely there is a way to ‘add all’ and then I can go and deselect a few? I have hundreds of contacts and probably more than a hundred apps, I don’t want to do that one by one - and then repeat that for each profile
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This is the exact reason I do not use focus modes.
 
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