How to Use Focus Assist on Windows 10 to Silence Notifications
39How to Use Focus Assist on Windows 10 to Silence Notifications.
Formerly known as Quiet Hours, Focus Assist gives you greater control to stop Windows from bugging you with each new notification. You can tell Windows to hide all notifications except alarms or those you deem high priority. You can ask Windows not to bother you when you're playing a game, sharing your display during a presentation, or during specific hours of the day. You can then view a summary of any notifications you missed by checking your Windows Action Center. Here's how to get started.
Windows 10’s Focus Assist feature automatically hides notifications while you’re playing games or using other full-screen applications. But Cortana loves to announce that it’s silencing notifications. Here’s how to turn off those annoying Focus Assist notifications.
Focus Assist is Windows 10’s Do Not Disturb mode. When enabled, it will automatically hide incoming notifications, so they don’t pop up and distract you while you’re playing a game, giving a presentation, or using any full-screen applications. Focus Assist can automatically silence notifications during certain hours of the day, too. You’ll see the notifications when you leave Focus Assist mode. However, Cortana will loudly announce “I’ll field your notifications in Action Center” while you’re playing a game, in full-screen mode, or duplicating your display. Here’s how to silence those messages.
On Windows 10, Focus assist is a handy feature that allows you to minimize or completely stop notifications when you need to stay focused to get work done, or you want to avoid interruptions during a presentation or while playing an exciting game.
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).