I use Messages only a few times per day, but no one had previously commented about my notifications being silenced. But I hadn’t noticed it making any difference, so I never looked into it. I never understood why, because the Driving Focus is triggered only by the iPhone connecting to our cars’ Bluetooth systems, and I was patently not driving when I had the MacBook Air open on my lap in the dining room. For unknown reasons, the MacBook Air would regularly throw a notification about how the Driving Focus was enabled. This setting caused the MacBook Air to inherit my Driving and Sleep settings in Focus, which is confusing because they’re triggered by the iPhone, and if my iPhone thinks I’m either driving or asleep, I’m certainly not using the MacBook Air. However, I had enabled the Share Across Devices option when we were covering Focus changes in Apple’s latest operating systems (see “ What’s New with Focus in iOS 16,” 7 October 2022). I don’t particularly care about Focus on my Macs because I rarely use them during hours or in situations when I don’t want to be disturbed. But no-as soon as the iPad powered up, it became clear that no Focus was active, and Tonya’s iPhone continued to report that I had notifications silenced. It was indeed dead, so I thought perhaps it had died while in the nightly Do Not Disturb such that Focus had gotten stuck. My next thought was my iPad Pro, which I use infrequently enough that it’s often out of power. No Focus was active on my iMac or iPhone, the devices I use most frequently and those that would be most likely to change my Focus. Curious about why Messages claimed I had notifications silenced and certain that I hadn’t intentionally enabled any Focus, I started checking all my devices. It was noon, and there was no reason I would be hiding from notifications, particularly from her, and I noticed her message right away on my iMac.
On Valentine’s Day, Tonya texted me (don’t get excited, she was thanking me for tracking down some squirrely accounting details for our taxes) and commented that my notifications were silenced in Messages. Notifications Unexpectedly Silenced? Blame Focus
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