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iPad User Guide

Allow or silence notifications for a Focus on iPad

When you set up a Focus, you can select people and apps you want to receive notifications from. For example, set up a Work Focus and allow only notifications from your coworkers and the apps you use for work.

Allow or silence notifications from specific people during a Focus

  1. Go to Settings 👁 Image
     > Focus, then choose a Focus—for example, Do Not Disturb, Personal, Sleep, or Work.

  2. Tap People (or Choose People), then do any of the following:

    • Allow specific people: Tap Allow Notifications From, tap 👁 the Add People button
      ,       then select from your contacts.

      You can also turn on options to allow calls from certain groups of people and allow repeated calls (two or more calls from the same person within 3 minutes).

    • Silence specific people: Tap Silence Notifications From, tap 👁 the Add People button
      ,       then select from your contacts.

      You can also turn on Allow Calls From Silenced People.

Note: Regardless of your Focus settings, you can allow calls from your emergency contacts to come through. See Allow calls from emergency contacts when notifications are silenced, below.

When Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing is on, Apple Intelligence* allows important notifications to interrupt you and silences notifications determined not to be important. See Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions with Apple Intelligence.

Allow or silence notifications from specific apps during a Focus

  1. Go to Settings 👁 Image
     > Focus, then choose a Focus—for example, Do Not Disturb, Personal, Sleep, or Work.

  2. Tap Apps (or tap Choose Apps), then do one of the following:

    Note: You can allow or silence notifications from specific web apps you’ve added to your Home Screen. (See Add a website icon to your Home Screen.)

You can also turn on Time Sensitive Notifications, which allows all apps to send time-sensitive notifications immediately.

Share your Focus status

When you use a Focus, it limits the notifications you receive from people and apps, to reflect the settings you specified when you set up the Focus.

When you’re using a Focus and have Focus Status turned on and others try to contact you, they may see that you have notifications silenced, but not the name of the Focus you’re using.

  1. Go to Settings 👁 Image
     > Focus > Focus Status.

  2. Turn on Share Focus Status, then select the Focus options you want to share your Focus status from.

Control what Focus Status you share

For each Focus option you set up (Do Not Disturb, Personal, Work, and so on), you can choose whether to share your Focus status while you’re using that Focus. When you have Focus status turned on for a Focus you’re using, people who try to contact you (using Messages, for example) may see that you have “notifications silenced.”

You can prevent messages about your Focus status from appearing in apps.

  1. Go to Settings 👁 Image
     > Focus > Focus Status.

  2. Turn off Share Focus Status.

    Alternatively, you can turn off the Focus options you don’t want to share your Focus status from (below Share From).

Allow calls from emergency contacts when notifications are silenced

You can allow sounds from emergency contacts to come through even when your iPad or notifications are silenced.

  1. Open Contacts 👁 Image
    .

  2. Select a contact, then tap Edit.

  3. Tap Ringtone or Text Tone, then turn on Emergency Bypass.

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