Is it possible to mute an app during the weekends/when at home only?

[jon08]

Basically, is there a way to automatically mute a work-related app so that when you get home you would not receive any notifications while out of the office?

Of course I could manually turn off notifications and whatnot but it's too cumbersome to do this every day. So is there a way the phone would automatically put an app into DND mode or so?

Thanks

 

[0128672]

Have you explored the Focus settings to allow notifications on the weekends for certain apps and not others?

 

[jon08]

Have you explored the Focus settings to allow notifications on the weekends for certain apps and not others?

I thought about that, but doesn't it mean that I would need to set a Focus mode to turn on every day when I get home (and to turn off when I leave the house) + keep the Focus mode on the weekends as well? So basically the app that I want to mute would be the only thing not allowed for notifications and sounds during the Focus mode?

 

[Slartibart]

Create a custom Focus which silences the app. Then create an automation in Shortcuts which sets this Focus when you arrive at "home". Enable it.
Everytime you’ll arrive at the “home” you set within this automation, the app in question will be automatically silenced.
Extend or create another automation which "activates" the app when you leave "home".

 

[NoBoMac]

So basically the app that I want to mute would be the only thing not allowed for notifications and sounds during the Focus mode?

Correct, but might not be as bad as it sounds: how many apps do you use that send notifications and how truly important are those notifications? Especially on the weekend? Might turn out to be a small set, so the weekend Focus could be "time sensitive" and a handful of apps.

As for using an Automation for arriving home, can skip that and use the location option in the Focus you setup. Plug in your home address and good to (come and) go.

 

[matrix07]

Create a custom Focus which silences the app. Then create an automation in Shortcuts which sets this Focus when you arrive at "home". Enable it.
Everytime you’ll arrive at the “home” you set within this automation, the app in question will be automatically silenced.
Extend or create another automation which "activates" the app when you leave "home".

Focus works with location (as well as time). No need for automation.

(for example, you can set Work Out focus activated only when you arrive at your gym. It will deactivate once you leave the gym as well)

 

[Zea74]

I guess the OP is looking for something I’ve also been wondering about: a Focus mode that is active when I’m working (and allows notifications of work-related apps), but when NOT in that work-focus mode, the work apps are not sending notifications. Seems at present a non-work Focus mode is required to enable this. So basically the opposite logic.