Share focus status turning off for one contact

I found a workaround for this issue!!

For weeks, I’ve not been able to enable the Share Focus Status for my boyfriend’s contact.

I followed all suggestions in this thread, software is up-to-date, the phone has been started/restarted multiple times, Share Across Device is on, etc.

Yet still, when I click my boyfriend’s contact, the Share Focus Status is off, and when I slide it to green, it either slides back off, or resets to off when I revisit that screen.

Okay, the workaround:

1. go to Settings>Focus, then select any Focus
2. add the contact to the People Allowed Notifications list
3. go back to Messages, select the contact, click on their Profile icon, and the Share Focus Status will either be green, or can be turned green and should stay green
4. click done on that contact’s Profile
5. go back to Settings Focus, and remove that contact from the People Allowed list
6. close settings
7. go back to Messages, the contact, click their Profile icon, and Share Focus Status should still be green

It worked for me, I so hope it works for you!! 🤩

Hey Kaaaaaayllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,

Good to know. When you go to Settings > Focus > do you have 'Share Across Devices' enabled at the bottom? If so, these settings may be pushing from another device linked to your Apple ID. You want to keep this enabled.

Tap on your Focus' and see if 'Share Focus Status' is enabled for each status.

You can also go to Settings > Privacy > Focus to make you've approved Focus Status.

All devices will need a good and strong network connection.

Then try doing a reboot of the device(s): Restart your iPhone

Should it persist, then it would be best to connect with Apple Support directly: Get Support

Wishing you well, take care.

Welcome Kaaaaaayllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities. Based on your post, you can't enable a Focus status to be shared with a specific contact.

To make sure we're on the same page here, you have Focus enabled during this time or not? Are you seeing the notification '(Contact) has notifications silenced' within the conversation in the Messages app? If so, this is that contact's focus or silenced notifications. Tapping on this and selecting 'Notify Anyway' will notify that contact of your previously sent message.

If that isn't what's happening, do you have this contact added to your Focus enabled? When you go to Settings > Focus and tap on the Focus that's enabled, then on 'Allowed People' is this contact here? If so, you'd want to remove them.

Learn more about Focus here: Use Focus on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Hoping to hear back, take care.

Is their phone updated to this version that allows share focus? I’m dealing with the same problem and that’s the only thing I’ve concluded. And by reading what Destiny said, it doesn’t seem like she understands haha

Is there a fix to this problem yet? I’m having this issue too and it’s mid-March….

This works!!!! I've been trying to share my focus status with this particular number. I do not save numbers so thinking it would change, I saved the number and my focus status still wouldn't show for just this now contact. I followed the steps above and it worked!!!!! I even deleted the number again and my focus status is still being shared with them. Thank You!!!

Has there been any update to this? I have the same issue where this only toggles off for one person.

this just started happening to me today!! this helped and worked!!!

Yesssssss!!! This worked! I tried EVERYTHING!! Thanks so much for this! Everyone needs to read your post!!

That actually worked

Thank you so much! that did the trick!!!!

Share focus status turning off for one of my people

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