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\nTwo Fridays ago, just before I left for a week-long vacation to Florida, I went through my pretrip digital routine. I set my Slack status to \u201cVacationing\u201d with a palm tree emoji and paused notifications until further notice. I turned on Gmail\u2019s auto-responder. I deleted a bunch of apps from my phone that would only serve to distract me from poolside bliss.<\/p>\n

The last thing I did was pick up my iPhone and create a new Focus mode. Focus, in case you didn\u2019t know, is a new-ish iOS feature<\/a> designed to let you quickly switch your phone from one context to another. You can set it to shut up your work apps on the weekends, turn off notifications while you\u2019re reading or sleeping, or only alert you to new emails from 9AM to 5PM and not a moment after. It\u2019s really just an extension of Do Not Disturb, but it gives you more specific control and lets you have different setups for different situations.<\/p>\n
My new Focus mode was called \u201cVacation Mode.\u201d The goal was simple: I wanted to make sure people who needed me could reach me and that I\u2019d be alerted if someone stole my credit card or my house burned down. Short of that, I wanted my phone to shut up and leave me alone. And, ideally, I also wanted it to actively prevent me from using it whenever possible.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the reality of Focus falls well short of this idea. The only thing it really controls is your notifications: you can choose specific people whose calls and messages get through and the specific apps that are allowed to light up your phone. This is a good idea; it\u2019s just too much work. You have to manually scroll through all of your contacts and then all of your apps, in alphabetical order, to pick which ones to exclude from the Focus blockade. (The app does offer some AI-powered suggestions in the app picker, but I found them basically useless. No, phone, Vacation Mode does not require calendar notifications.) <\/p>\n
\nUnfortunately, the only thing Focus really controls is your notifications<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nHere\u2019s where I eventually landed: I allowed phone calls from \u201cAll Contacts\u201d and added Messages, Reminders, WhatsApp, Home, and my banking apps to the list of allowed apps. I also turned off the toggle for \u201cTime Sensitive\u201d notifications because, at least in my experience, there\u2019s nothing remotely time-sensitive about the \u201cTime Sensitive\u201d notifications I get. I turned off all notification badges, too. It wasn\u2019t a perfect setup, but it meant I\u2019d get all my texts and calls from people I know and be alerted to crucial stuff. <\/p>\n
Turning on Vacation Mode drastically reduced my phone\u2019s buzzing and lighting up over the course of a week. It was wonderful, and I didn\u2019t miss anything I actually cared about. But all those notifications Focus mode blocks? They weren\u2019t gone. They were just grouped on my lock screen, one tiny swipe away. And so, every time I picked up my phone, I found myself bombarded by them anyway. When I picked up my phone to check the weather, it was like being transported back to the office, with all the news alerts and Slack updates and unimportant email alerts reappearing \u2014 and then, oh fine, I\u2019ll just look at TikTok for a second.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s this underlying tension that makes Focus hard to get right. Apple surely knows that showing you a bunch of stuff you don\u2019t want is less of a problem than failing to show you the one truly important thing you needed to see. As a result, the feature is permanently stuck in a place of careful caution. But if Apple really wants to help users take back control of their phones, it needs to make Focus much more aggressive. Most of the tools to do so even already exist! Focus should integrate with Screen Time so that I could say \u201cwhile I\u2019m in Vacation Mode, only let me use Twitter five minutes a day\u201d instead of having to change that setting separately. Rather than just hiding notifications, Focus should stop them entirely, as if I\u2019d gone into the Notifications settings page and toggled them off. Focus mode currently lets you hide entire pages of your homescreen, but it should let you hide specific apps or widgets or even just rearrange things as soon as you turn on Focus. I don\u2019t just want distractions slightly hidden on my phone while I\u2019m on vacation \u2014 I want them gone. <\/em>All these things should be part of a whole, not partitioned off from each other. And they shouldn\u2019t feel like the Rube Goldberg machine they currently are.<\/p>\n\n  <\/p>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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    In iOS 16, Focus mode gets some big improvements, including within apps.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: Apple<\/cite><\/p>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\nThe good news is that it looks like this is where Apple is headed. In iOS 16<\/a>, for instance, you\u2019ll be able to set up different lock screens for different Focus modes, and it\u2019s working on improving both the setup process and the recommendations you get along the way. The new software also allows you to opt out of things rather than opting in, so instead of saying \u201conly these six apps can reach me,\u201d you can say \u201ceverything but these six apps can reach me.\u201d That\u2019ll make getting started with Focus modes a lot easier.<\/p>\n
The real key to the future of Focus, though, is the new Focus filter API, which gives developers the ability to change their apps in response to settings you\u2019ve enabled or tweaked in Focus modes. Apple\u2019s own apps are a good guide for what that might look like: in iOS 16, I\u2019ll be able to tweak Vacation Mode to hide my work events in the Calendar app or silence my work email in Mail but still get stuff sent to my personal account. Apple has suggested to developers that they might want to use Focus filters to let people hide specific accounts, turn off their in-app alerts, or even completely change the layout of the app depending on what a person is doing. (You can imagine, for instance, a navigation or music app that might want to look different as soon as you turn on the \u201cDriving\u201d Focus mode.) \u201cFundamentally, if your app can surface different content based on context,\u201d Apple\u2019s Teja Kondapalli told developers during a WWDC session in June<\/a>, \u201cyou may be able to employ Focus filters to enhance user experience.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nDevelopers are getting more features for Focus \u2014 but why would they use them?<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nSounds great, right? Maybe in a year, I\u2019ll be able to turn on Vacation Mode and have my Slack status automatically change, my auto-responder automatically engage, and all my notifications go away except the ones that really matter. There are two problems with this strategy, though. One, it assumes developers will willingly build less engaging versions of their app with fewer notifications and badges and incitements to pick up your phone. That\u2019s not going to happen. And two, it still puts all the work in users\u2019 hands: you\u2019ll have to configure the Focus filters for each app individually.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, though, I do recommend doing the work to set up a few Focus modes. I have a couple of them now, including one that automatically turns on whenever I open the Kindle app so I don\u2019t get distracted by notifications when I\u2019m reading. The feature is both not powerful enough and too complicated to use, but it\u2019s a step in the right direction toward giving me actual control over my phone. I\u2019m back at work, but I\u2019m still in Vacation Mode, and my phone is still mostly quiet. And I might keep it that way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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