Microsoft Teams breaking through Focus Mode

[wa2be]

I have a focus mode set up on my iPhone that I call "Lunch". It basically turns off notifications from my work-related apps for an hour in the middle of the day so that I can have a lunch break without interruptions from emails, chats and calls. I'm running into an issue where calls in the Teams app are breaking through my focus mode and still ringing my phone, even though Teams is not allowed as an app in the Focus setup. I've also set the Focus mode to allow calls from "No One" under the People section.

Not sure where to go from here. I've checked the Teams call settings on my work computer and verified that I have call forwarding turned off.

Anyone run into an issue like this where an app doesn't follow the restrictions set up in Focus?

 

[Enos128]

I have this same behavior. I use the Mindfulness focus mode, nothing allowed, for certain apps, but a teams call broke through anyway. This also happens with Snapchat calls. iOS 15.1.1

 

[NoBoMac]

Seen a couple of posts on this and don't seem to recall anyone coming up with a good answer.

My guess/thing to check: allowing Time Sensitive through? Teams might be sending their Notifications as Time Sensitive vs some other status. That makes some sense as Teams has task lists.

Snapchat, if same cause, they are not following the spirit of what a Time Sensitive notification should be.

Managing notifications | Apple Developer Documentation

Notifications can give people timely and important information, whether the device is locked or in use.

developer.apple.com

 

[Enos128]

Seen a couple of posts on this and don't seem to recall anyone coming up with a good answer.

My guess/thing to check: allowing Time Sensitive through? Teams might be sending their Notifications as Time Sensitive vs some other status. That makes some sense as Teams has task lists.

Snapchat, if same cause, they are not following the spirit of what a Time Sensitive notification should be.

Managing notifications | Apple Developer Documentation

Notifications can give people timely and important information, whether the device is locked or in use.

developer.apple.com

Interesting theory but it is not marked as time sensitive and there's no way to do so that I can see.

 

[wa2be]

Interesting theory but it is not marked as time sensitive and there's no way to do so that I can see.

Yeah looking at my notification settings, Teams does not have the Time Sensitive option that other apps like Reminders, etc have.

 

[Beelzbub]

For me Focus Mode is broken. No matter what I do, I cannot get it to work. Now when I drive, everything gets through, app alerts, calendar items, texts, emails, etc.. Before when I got in my car the DND while Driving automatically kicked in and I would get nothing but a phone call over my vehicles Bluetooth, now everything comes in. My only solution is to put my phone in air plane mode now when I get in my car, things can wait till I get to where I am going. And before at night my phone used to go into DND automatically at a certain time blocking everything except calls from my favorites list, like Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, you know the kind of person who is calling you at 2am that has a legit reason for it. Now it all comes through. The other morning at 3:30 a co worker (not in my favorites list) calls me by mistake and my phone is going off. In my opinion, Apple took something that worked good and broke it (again my opinion). I have tried every combo of settings, and then once in a while it seems to work, then for whatever reason later on it stops working. The only thing I have not done is reset the phone and start from scratch, etc... for now that is too much work and I will live with this broken focus mode thing and hoping the next update fixes this.

 

[UltraLordSupreme]

Experiencing this issue with IOS 16.0.1. "Personal" focus mode is set to explicitly deny Microsoft Teams notifications.

Some messages still manage to slip through despite the restriction. On top of that the notifications can even come when Microsoft Team's "Quiet hours" setting is turned on, so that's two settings messages get passed but that's a separate issue.

 

[c84216]

Are the notifications "time sensitive" and are time sensitive notifications allowed through in the foci?