From the course: Windows 11 Essential Training (2023)

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Use Do not disturb and Focus sessions

Use Do not disturb and Focus sessions - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows 11 Essential Training (2023)

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Use Do not disturb and Focus sessions

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- [Instructor] There are some situations where it may be distracting or disruptive to have notifications pop up on your screen. In those cases, you can use the Do Not Disturb mode, or you can use Focus sessions. In the bottom right corner of the task bar you can click the bell icon to open the Notification Center, and there's a shortcut at the top to turn on the Do Not Disturb mode. Just click that button and it will block notifications from popping up. But if you read this line closely, you'll see that it does not block all notifications. It will still show priority notifications, because there are some types of notifications that you probably want to see, even when Do Not Disturb is on, but you can control what is considered to be a priority notification. If you want to configure that, you can click this link for notification settings, or you can go to the start menu and go to Settings. On the left go to the category for System, then to the subcategory for Notifications. And from…

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