Focus and Do Not Disturb buggy

[orionquest]

I'm not crazy with how Apple implemented Focus and DND, but I'm curious if it's just buggy. I'm talking about MacOS Ventura.

Recently updated to Ventura a few days ago. Setup DND & Focus. Basically I turn off all notifications all the time except for email. (like how MacOS was before all the notifications). It wasn't working everything was being blocked, an no email sounds etc. I did notice the profile linking across devices was connected. I turned that off. But that was a few days ago. No today it's all working like magic.

 

[NoBoMac]

Sometimes buggy, other times overly complicated.

I turned off "Share Across Devices" almost from the start in iOS 15. That was buggy in that I was getting some devices' Foci turning on correctly but then turning off early. Once I setup each device to have their own schedule for Focuses, no problems.

Complicated, can easily put in contradictory items (not saying you did it...). For example, remember a thread where person had a list of who can contact but then put Messages app in "Allowed Apps" so got alerts for all texts.

(Add: I like the complexity [read: flexibility], but above bit me once as well, had an app by mistake in Allowed and was awakened by an alert in the middle of the night)

 

[orionquest]

Yeah it's got to be buddy. The other day it was working as originally posted. Yesterday it wasn't working at all.
Today it's fine. I've made no adjustments.

I have a feeling this is a setting which phone's home and has to do with what's happening at Apple's end.

 

[kkclstuff]

the focus settings also disengage/turn off if using the 'Set a Schedule (by App)' option. For example, I have Zoom.app set as 'work focus'. but if I browse my Mac during a Zoom meeting, the focus with deactivate/turn off while Zoom is in the 'background'.

This is a major flaw on  part—Focus settings should work if the app is the foreground or background! otherwise, whats the point?