If you choose to share your Focus Status with others—either with everyone or only with selected people—you can control which Focus profiles are allowed to share the information that your notifications are silenced.
The important point is that Focus Status is controlled separately for each Focus profile. Simply enabling Share Focus Status does not mean that every Focus mode you use will automatically share your status with others.
For example, suppose you have enabled Share Focus Status for your Work Focus, but it is disabled for Do Not Disturb (DND).
- When Work Focus is active, your contacts may see that your notifications are silenced, because Work Focus is configured to share its Focus Status.
- If you subsequently enable Do Not Disturb, and Share Focus Status is turned off for DND, your contacts will not be informed that your notifications are silenced because of DND.
- In other words, the sharing permission is profile-specific, not a single global setting that automatically applies to every Focus mode.
Therefore, when configuring Focus Status, check the Share Focus Status setting inside each individual Focus profile—such as Personal, Work, Sleep, or Do Not Disturb. This determines whether that particular Focus profile can communicate to people you are messaging that your notifications are silenced.
In short: Sharing Focus Status is not simply an “all Focus modes” switch. Each Focus profile has its own sharing setting, and only the Focus profile for which sharing is enabled can communicate your silenced-notifications status to others.