Stop Facetime from becoming the focus, i.e., the currently used app, and knocking you out of whatever app being used at the time, when it rings?

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Stop Facetime from becoming the focus, i.e., the currently used app, and knocking you out of whatever app being used at the time, when it rings?

Yeah just that, how do I stop Facetime from knocking me out of apps like Fightcade, while I'm using it, especially when I'm in the middle of sensitive or volatile situations, super annoying?

Someone will call me on Facetime, and instead of ringing in the background and waiting for me to pick up, it will force the focus to Facetime and the whole app suddenly becomes the active app and knocks me out of the previous app I was using.

It's really frustrating and ridiculous that there's no readily available way to disable this.

I bet there's a terminal command of some sort that I now have to turn to. SMH.

Any gurus out there know of a way?

Thanks.

Posted on Apr 22, 2022 2:11 PM

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Answer 1

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AdobeOneKenobi Author

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Apr 25, 2022 2:46 AM in response to Lissy_12

Scratch that.

I just tested it and no matter what notification settings I used, even when I completely turned off notifications for Facetime, when the phone rang it would still knock me out of the current app on my mac.

Only by putting it on Do Not Disturb would it not ring on my Mac, but it would on my phone, which is fine.

I guess I was really looking for something that would enable Facetime to ring on my mac, but not knock me out of whatever app I happen to have open.

But until I find something that does that, Do Not Disturb will have to do for now.

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Lissy_12

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Apr 23, 2022 12:23 PM in response to AdobeOneKenobi

Hi AdobeOneKenobi,

Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities! You can use the Focus feature to silence all notifications. The following resources can help:

Turn a Focus on or off on Mac

Change Focus preferences on Mac

Hope this helps!

Have a great day.

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Answer 3

Apr 25, 2022 2:33 AM in response to Lissy_12

It's not focus prefs, or whether it's on or off, even though I know I used the terminology in my post, the issue has to do more with which app is the active app.

But exploring this made me realize that it might be a notification issue.

Alerts seem to knock you out of whatever current active app the user is in.

I switched Facetime's notifications to banners, which I hope will not knock me out of the active app currently being used.

Haven't tested it yet.

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Stop Facetime from becoming the focus, i.e., the currently used app, and knocking you out of whatever app being used at the time, when it rings?

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