Increase Productivity in 5 Minutes or Less.
Enable Focus Mode on your Apple devices.
Picture this: You’re dialed into your zone of genius, crushing your to-do list, and suddenly your phone dings with a message from a friend about dinner plans next week.
Dinner plans are great, especially ones that include Sushi, but not when making those plans interrupts a great workflow. Having technology at our fingertips at all times has so many amazing perks, but it can also create such a big distraction.
The great news is that I have a solution for you! Apple Focus Mode!
Apple products have the capability to go into Focus Mode. When your device is in Focus Mode, you can limit or completely shut off notifications from the outside world. This allows you to maximize your productivity and save distracting, non-emergent messages for later.
You can enable Apple Focus Mode in 4 simple steps:
On Your iPhone:
Go to your Settings.
Scroll down to Focus. The icon is purple with a half moon. You will see four options: Do Not Disturb, Sleep, Personal, Work. Select Work.
Now you can click through the settings. Select people from your contacts that you want to allow notifications from, then you can select apps that you want to allow notifications from.
To put Focus Mode into action, go right back into Settings → Focus → Work, and switch the toggle on. Turn Focus Mode off at any time using the same instructions.
PRO TIP: You can do this on other Apple devices as well! On your desktop, follow this sequence: System Preferences → Notifications → Do Not Disturb.
That’s it! Enjoy a quiet, distraction-free work day!
Visual learner? Here’s a quick video on how to enable Focus Mode on your desktop or iPhone.
Forward this email to your friend with too many notifications! Their to-do list will thank you for the tech tip!