Focus mode for calendar events
My schedule is sporadic, and I have meetings and do presentations on different days at different times. I love how focus mode silences unnecessary notifications. While having the option to schedule focus modes based on apps, location, and time is okay, it would be easier to allow an option to tie focus modes to calendar events. For example, “Do Not Disturb” mode turns on at the time of a doctor’s appointment in my calendar, and turns off at the end of the event. Today, I thought I had Do Not Disturb on while at the dentist, but I got a phone call while in the dentist chair. Can’t really talk or text while the dentist is working in your mouth.
It’s fairly annoying to have to remember to turn on a focus mode for events already planned in the calendar. I’ve tried using automations and shortcuts—and wasted too many hours of my life on that side quest—to automatically turn on focus mode based on the calendar events available in my various calendars (doctor focus mode for medical calendar, meetings focus mode for work calendar, and so on). Nothing I’ve tried has worked thus far.
Does anyone have a suggestion to make this actually work? Or will there be an update that finally allows the connection between the calendar and focus mode?
This feels like an easy thing, but I cannot get focus mode to turn on automatically for calendar events.
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