You can set up a Gaming focus that only enables notifications from apps you let through (e.g. time critical ones) that is enabled when you start a gaming app (Shortcut automation) or enabled manually for when you start a gaming session.
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iOS 15: All the little things
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So typical apple only giving 80%. It should just KNOW if you're in a game app. At least its something though.
My opinion is that giving users options is better, what is I prefer to get notifications during a game whereas you don't? Isn't giving us options better than forcing the situation on one group?
No you misunderstood. I firmly believe in giving options. But I should be able to set a focus for: No notifications during games and just have it work. Instead of making shortcut routines and all that crap. IOW: the OS should just know the app I opened is a game.
Ah, my apologies. In that case, we're in agreement, they should build a 'simple' method of notification by app categories.
App categories are unreliable. It‘s up to the developers to classify and provide. I‘ve seen loads of games that abuse this to skirt ScreenTime category rules (e.g. one game claiming to be a productivity app).
I feel like a simple Gaming focus is the best way to go about this. You only have to do the configuration once and get to pick which notifications to let through.
I've been playing with FOCUS. It's kind of fun.
First thing I tried was to create an automation to run a Focus profile to block all notifications (apart from some important ones) whenever the FaceTime app opens, and to turn it off when it closes. This is because notifications come in loud and kill the FaceTime volume for a couple of seconds. This could be a bug, but anyway. The automation works if *I* open the FaceTime app, but if someone calls me and hence causes the app to open, nothing gets triggered. Useless. Oh well.
Second thing, and this is working well, is I've created a home-screen with a big calendar widget stacked with a mail widget and some apps. Then, I created a Focus which turns this off and turns another home-screen on which has an identical layout, but the calendar widget only shows my work calendar, and the Mail widget opens in my work inbox instead of all inboxes. This is cool!
First thing I tried was to create an automation to run a Focus profile to block all notifications (apart from some important ones) whenever the FaceTime app opens, and to turn it off when it closes. This is because notifications come in loud and kill the FaceTime volume for a couple of seconds. This could be a bug, but anyway. The automation works if *I* open the FaceTime app, but if someone calls me and hence causes the app to open, nothing gets triggered. Useless. Oh well.
Second thing, and this is working well, is I've created a home-screen with a big calendar widget stacked with a mail widget and some apps. Then, I created a Focus which turns this off and turns another home-screen on which has an identical layout, but the calendar widget only shows my work calendar, and the Mail widget opens in my work inbox instead of all inboxes. This is cool!
I've done something similar to your second Focus. I've created the "Work" focus where I have key widgets and apps on a Home Screen that is normally hidden, but appears when I arrive at work. I have notifications set to allow only notifications from certain people and apps. Very helpful. Will be even more so when I move my Mac to Monterey later (I can't fool with the Mac on betas....)
One improvement I'd like to see would be if clicking on the Mail widget opened Mail to the folder that's selected in the widget. Instead, it just opens the app to whichever mailbox I had previously opened. Same for the calendar widget; it opens Calendar and shows events from every calendar not just those selected in the widget. Better than nothing, though.
It would still be good, in my opinion, to have an option to allow unknown callers through.
Did you mean that for a particular Focus profile you want unknown callers to be unblocked but known callers blocked?
Yes, so I have the list of allowed contacts, but then another 'contact' that allows unknown callers too as I receive quite a few of these at times
You can, of course, allow all calls through, but allowing unknown numbers while blocking (some/most) known numbers is not possible.
I have a feedback logged since August 2020, updated by Apple to say "More than 10 - Potential fix identified in iOS 14" that still isn't fixed.
The calendar widget (any style) removes an event from display once it's 15 minutes past its start date.
So, let's say I have a 4 hour event (I dunno, say "BBQ with friends in the park") but my previous activity over-runs by 20 minutes. I then look at my widget and it smugly tells me that I have no events for the rest of the day. That's despite the one that still has 3 hours 40 minutes left to go.
I've seen other calendar and event apps offer a "show in-progress events" toggle, since everyone's desires for this sort of thing are different.
The sad thing is... it almost certainly does know this for the purposes of Screen Time.
Sure. Every other Calendar app widget I've tried shows the in-progress event as, well, being in progress. I've stopped using the default Calendar app and use Readdle Calendars. So that has, in a way, solved my problem
Unfortunately, because Apple have decided (both on iOS and MacOS) to tie their apps into the OS, there's no way for them to fix any issues without rolling out a new iOS/MacOS version.
I'm not sure if this is new to iOS 15 but it's new to me. If you are screen recording and go to a password field, the screen recording does not show anything in the password field on the onscreen password... Effectively preventing a user from sharing their login password on a recording.
In CarPlay, if you are in the Messages app there is now a little button called “Announce” at the top right of the dialog window. It’s semi active as it’s color changes from grey to purple if you select it. But it doesn’t actually seem to do anything. Anyone know what this does differently from the “old” CarPlay messages? (Yes, I’m sure it announces something, so no wiseacres need to respond with that! 
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I saw that iPads are FINALLY going to get low power mode. I wonder if iPads will also get battery health? Anyone who knows? It’s really weird that Apple hasn’t added it since there were lawsuits regarding the same feature on iPhone.
No Battery Health,at least on beta 1. The iPad battery is so big that it really isn’t needed.
