Why is the "Driving" focus less flexible than others?

[zorinlynx]

For example, with other focus modes you can select apps that are exempt from the focus. With driving, you can ONLY select people who can call you, and you can't exempt apps.

I'd love to be able to use the Driving Focus when I drive to reduce distractions from apps like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. but need to be able to create exemptions for the some work apps (Teams). It seems weird that the driving focus, which is among the most useful for safety, is so limited.

 

[yass31]

As Teams uses the native iOS API for calls to be recognised by the iPhone, I think that if you allow calls from everyone in the focus settings, your phone will ring even if the driving focus is on (in the people pane of the focus, at the bottom)

 

[macOS Lynx]

The “Driving” focus mode is just the old “DND While Driving” feature renamed. The idea behind it is that you’re driving, so you shouldn’t be getting ANY app notifications to mess with. Same reason it locks you out of using your phone when its on.

As far as calls from VOIP apps, if they’re using CallKit (and they should be), it’ll come through just fine. Most big name chat apps (Teams, Discord, Slack, Skype, Messenger, Snapchat, etc.) all use it.