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How about a new feature that DISABLES FOCUS?

New features are completely useless if they cannot be disabled by the people that are just not interested in them. FOCUS on Iphone is my red line. It is affecting my life and it is infuriating. I just set a reminder to do something for my wife - put the clothes in the dryer at 11:30pm - and somehow my 'sleep' focus got enabled so it silenced my own **** reminder. I want to scream. My wife gets to act like she's the only one that ever remembers anything once again. Thanks, APPLE. I never want this ever to happen again. I am so sick of getting text messages from friends I haven't heard from in a while ~ and finding out I ignored them for a long time because of FOCUS. I have missed important emergency calls and texts because FOCUS turns itself back on again. Instead of just disabling the feature, the Internet is full of tutorials telling me how to waste my time learning how to use a feature I don't want at all. My relationship with my phone was fine before FOCUS. I really cannot understand how hiding certain apps during certain times or hiding reminders or hiding text messages or calls from certain contacts is an improvement in my life. I do not understand this feature at all and I really do not understand the need to force it on everyone that doesn't want it. If I want my phone on silent, I put it on silent.


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  • Did you set a Bedtime/Wake time schedule on your phone in the Health app to enable a Sleep Focus?

Set up sleep in Health on iPhone - Apple Support

  • That schedule can also be turned off in the Health app for use with Sleep Focus.

Turn your Sleep Focus on or off on iPhone - Apple Support

  • Did you link a Sleep Focus to a particular Wallpaper?

Change your iPhone wallpaper - Apple Support


None of those are set automatically, so would have to been done by you or if you are sharing your Apple Account with your Wife, her focus settings are being shared with your device. You can even delete the Sleep Focus entirely by going to Settings > Focus > Sleep > Delete Focus.






You can do that now. Settings - focus. Tap the focus and then delete. Do not disturb is a permanent feature but you can modify the settings easily to allow all calls and notifications.