Enable Notifications While Playing Games or Watching Videos in Full Screen Mode in Windows 10
61Enable Notifications While Playing Games or Watching Videos in Full Screen Mode in Windows 10.
While playing your favorite game or watching a full-screen video, you may also like to keep a check about what’s happening in the background. As such, you can choose to receive important messages and notifications from Windows. Sadly, when you switch to a game or watch-full screen window, you do not receive notifications. This default behavior can be corrected and you can enable notifications in full-screen mode.
Although you find no messages or notifications delivered during full-screen mode use, all of them are quietly moved inside the Action Center where the user can read them later. To enable full-screen notifications in Windows 10:
Many Windows 10 users have complained about this annoying problem. When they play a game or watch videos/films in full-screen mode, or work on an application in full-screen mode, they do not receive any notifications from Windows 10. All notifications are disabled, and when they exit the game or video, they notice that new notifications are present and appear in the Action Center.
Windows 10’s Focus Assist feature temporarily hides incoming notifications. In Windows 10’s next update, Focus Assist can activate when you’re using any full-screen app, whether that’s YouTube in a browser, Netflix, or a desktop video player like VLC.
This feature will be part of Windows 10’s upcoming update, codenamed 19H1 and expected for release in April 2019. Microsoft just added this feature in Insider build 18277, released on November 7.
“Focus Assist” was added back in the April 2018 Update. Windows 10 can automatically enable it when you’re playing a full-screen game or projecting your display, or even just between certain hours. It’s like a “Do Not Disturb” mode for Windows 10. When you disable Focus Assist—so, when you stop playing a game or watching a video—any notifications you missed will be summarized for you. This is all customizable.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).