How to Enable Notifications While Playing Games or Watching Videos in Full Screen Mode
105How to Enable Notifications While Playing Games or Watching Videos in Full Screen Mode.
Most of us don’t want to get interrupted while gaming and watching movies. While gaming, watching movies, or giving an important presentation, more often than not, we get notifications.
The desktop notification feature in Windows 10 is very helpful, but it can be annoying while gaming, presenting, and watching movies. Sure, you can turn off the notifications, but doing so will turn off notifications all the time.
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.
Luckily, a new feature in Windows 10 allows you to give presentations, watch movies, and play games without any interruption. By configuring the Focus Assist in Windows 10, you will be able to enjoy games and movies without getting disturbed by notifications.
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.
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).