iOS 15 Focus Status not working

Please fix this bug. Focus Notification stilL SHOWS EVEN WHEN FOUCS IS DISABLED IN IMESSAGE SETTINGS AND FOCUS IS OFF ANYWAY AND SHARE FOCUS DISABLED IN CONTACT OPTION. It is a bug see it and fix it. You sell the most expensive smart phone!

This is not helpful! We cannot fix the issue that it’s showing we have our notifications silenced to contacts. It shows focus is disabled, there is no crescent moon showing I have do not disturb on, and yet my contacts are still getting the message and have to hit notify anyway when they try and message me. I am so not happy with this bug

Hi there Benh4597,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. Thanks for reaching out to us with this issue you're having with the Focus Status on your iPhone. We're happy to help. Have you disabled Focus in Messages? If not, go to Settings > Messages, and switch Focus to off under "Allow Messages to Access". Let us know if this helps you.

Use Focus on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Have a great day!

I’ve been having the same issues where friends and family are saying my notifications are being silenced. I have

deleted all my focus/dnds that were scheduled,

had it not share status with contact and

had it disabled for messages

my friends still get the message saying my notifications are being silenced.

Not sure if you're still having this problem, but make sure to check all of your Apple devices' settings for Focus. My mom was having this same issue and changing the status on her iPad ended up fixing the issue. She has an older model iPad, so not sure if that was the problem; but in order to change the setting on her phone, she had to turn on the Share Across Devices setting. Even when showing disabled she was having this issue.

Also note that you may need to do this across all devices linked to your account if you don't have the Share Across Devices on for all devices. My mom just ran into this issue where her iPad was causing Do Not Disturb to show up during work hours when she hadn't set up the settings for it.

I have this issue as well. I've verified that all iOS devices have DnD/Focus turned off. Family members are still seeing that "____ has notifications silenced". Have tried restarting all devices... double and triple checked that Focus/DnD are turned off. This isn't user error

It is a pain. I had to reset all settings to make it stop. Then, of course, you have to redo all that. I don’t even turn on focus or do not disturb now. I just turn the phone off. Which is utterly ridiculous for one of the most expensive phones on the market!

This has not helped at all, as other replies have said nothing fixes this problem. from deleting all of the focuses to restarting our phones, its obviously an IOS 15.1 issue which I'm sure we'd all like to get fixed. As it makes others thing they cannot reach us through our phones and can cause communicative issues between others.

I just found out this bug existed cause my Dad said in iMessage he sees I am asleep all day (which I am not, and DND Focus is only active from 22:00 to 07:00).

So, it is not fixed in iOS 15.2 either.

I just disabled sharing my focus status in Settings > Focus > DND

Hope that 'fixes' the issue for the few contacts I did decide decide to see what my FOCUS is...

I agree.., THIS IS A DEFECT and truly medically dangerous bug. My diabetic son can not reach me sometime nor I him. It is Dec 27. Disabling focus STILL does not work and my family sees notifications are silenced. Please fix this. It doesn’t matter if I add people or apps (even though I have everything disabled anyway). The notifications Silenced still intermittently shows up. I can’t keep hard restarting all the family phones to fix this.

Mine is the same! It will not turn off even though I have the status turned off. It is frustrating to have people texting me if I’m ok and send me a screenshot that I have notifications silenced when I, in fact, do not!

I was able to remove the notification that my messages are silenced for individual recipients. In iMessage app individual chat, select recipient, scroll down and swipe share focus status to the left. That will get rid of the banner that your notifications are silenced on their screen

This is DEFINITELY STILLL AN ISSUE!!! Hoping the new update fixes this. It’s ridiculous at this point and I shouldn’t be fighting with my phone this way. It’s like I have to go to every single contact to turn it off. It’s overwhelming and redundant. Either fix it or get rid of it all together please and thank you!!!

FOCUS feature still has a bug even after my update today. I should not be paying installments for a phone that can not have applications working properly. I will contact Att and let them know they need to give me back my money fir these past two months of headache with this feature. Apple sucks big time not happy rather be an Android girl!!!!!