How to share focus status on iPhone

Makego to setting, scroll and find msgs and turn on the focus setting from there. Turn your phone off and then back on and it should work. Was having this issue for a while also.

why cant i turn the share focus status on??? anyone?

I originally thought that too but some of my contacts that are showing ‘share focus status’ don’t have iOS 15 and some that do don’t see the status. It’s very strange - only a handful of my contacts are showing the share focus status as on. I will toggle it on but it immediately goes back to off when I click back into contacts settings. I can see my daughters status but she can’t see mine - even though it shows on for her.

its a great new feature - just would like it to work properly.

i don’t even have that option at the top of my messages screen (the allow focus button) i’m on ios 15.1 and still no sign of if, tried restarting my phone but nothing, really annoying cause i love this feature and it works well on my friends’ devices. where do i even start on how i can get this on my phone :( all the other focus details are there though!

Same issue for me. When I turn on the Focus status, even for an individual contact, it reverts right back to not showing again. Frustrated and I've tried all the recommended fixes except a total reset.

GUYS ! THE ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED. bit of a mare, but what i did was take it into the apple shop and just had a complete system restore / reset. it wiped the software and re downloaded it. everything perfectly fine afterwords due to icloud backup, just had to redownload my apps. you might be able to do it on your mac by connecting your phone to it and resetting it on there, although i don’t know if it’s something that can only be done by apple staff. I NOW HAVE THE FOCUS STATUS option on my messages!! hope this helps, was upsetting to not have the cool function, but apple sorted it once i explained i’ve literally been through everything!! ps- i was also on IOS 15.0.2 and it still didn’t work. i recommend taking your phones in x

Same too !

And even though iOS 15.1 is installed, it doesn't work !

I tried all options... Privacy, Share Status in Contacts, nothing worked !

Meanwhile i can see the status from other people but no one can see mine

I am having the same issue. I keep having to go into each contact in messages and toggle it on to share focus mode but the second I go back it is toggled back off. It will not stay.

Same issue

I have tried that as well and it doesn’t fix it for me - thanks though!

Very Simple.

1. SETTINGS
2. PRIVACY
3. Scroll down to FOCUS
4. Toggle or click on MESSAGES

Make sure the nozzle is on in the contact section of the messages.

Same. Glad I finally found a discussion on this. Seems no rhyme or reason to who is in and who is off. Need an update that fixes it.