- [Narrator] There are some situations
where notifications popping up on your screen
can be distracting or disruptive,
and that's what Focus assist is for.
You can think of Focus assist as a do not disturb mode
with more options.
I want to go to the quick settings panel,
so if we click this cluster of buttons in the task bar,
it'll open up that panel,
and of course we're looking for the Focus assist button,
but remember it is possible to customize
the quick settings panel.
So if you do not see that button,
you can click this little pencil down at the bottom
and then click add and you can add it from this list,
but I already have it so I'll click done.
Now Focused assist has three positions.
Right now it's turned off.
If I click once, it's set to the priority-only mode,
and if I click again, it's set to the alarms-only mode,
and then if I click it again, it's turned off again.
Now both of those modes will disable notifications,
but they work differently.
This button is a great shortcut,
but to really understand how these work,
we should go into Windows settings.
So let's go to the start menu to settings.
On the left, we'll make sure we're in the system category,
then to the subcategory for Focus assist.
And once again, we have these three options.
When it's off, that means that Focus assist is not enabled.
All notifications will be displayed normally.
For priority-only, you can build a list
of specific people or applications
that are considered to be priorities,
and those are the only ones that can display notifications.
So you can click here to customize the priority list,
and then you can add people from your contacts
or you can add applications,
and when you're finished with that list,
you can click Focus assist up at the top to go back.
And then the alarms-only mode will hide
all notifications except for alarms,
so you'll notice that neither of these options
block all notifications 100%,
but if you don't have any alarms set,
the alarms-only mode blocks every other notification.
So that might be your best option for that.
And then there's an option down here,
if you turn on Focus assist, when you turn it off later,
this can give you a summary of all the notifications
that you missed during that time,
so you can turn on that option if you want.
And also you should notice that there is a crescent moon
visible down in the task bar when Focus assist is turned on.
So you can always tell at a glance if it's on or not.
And then if we scroll down a bit,
there are some options here in settings
for Focus assist to turn on automatically.
So you can set it to turn on with a schedule
or when you're playing a game
or when you're running a full screen application.
This option that says when I'm duplicating
a display is interesting.
Duplicating the display is when you have more
than one screen connected to your computer
and both screens are set to show the same thing,
like if your laptop is connected to a projector
for a presentation, that's a time when you might
want to block notifications.
So you can turn any of these on
and you can click the arrow to set more options
for each one.
But for now, I'm going to click on Focus assist
to take a step back here.
So if there are any situations
where you need to block notifications,
take a moment to get Focus assist set up.