This needs to be explained a bit, so here’s my problem:

  • I use Focus for sleeping. I manually enable it when I go to bed and disable it when I wake up.
  • My Focus setting disables notifications for email, calendar, and some messaging apps.
  • My security camera app notifications are not disabled, obviously because I want to be alerted if something triggers it in the middle of the night.
  • However, there is a certain time in the morning between 7:30AM and 8AM where people walking on the sidewalk triggers alerts that wake me up. And no, I want to avoid not pointing my cameras away from that part of the sidewalk because it helps me catch people letting their pets pee and poop on my yard.
  • I usually wake up at 8AM and getting woken up 30 minutes earlier is annoying.
  • I am willing to accept the risk of not getting notifications from my cameras on my phone for 30 minutes before I wake up.

What is the most practical way to disable notifications from an app on a scheduled time duration while Focus is already in use? Schedule it in Health? Create a shortcut/automation?

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    3 months ago

    I’m glad that suggestion would work for you! Yes, you’d only need to script the transition from sleep to quiet sleep at 7:30, that should do the trick. Maybe you’d want to switch the to focuses, as in having a ‘light sleep’ where you get notified by your cameras, and the switching to the normal ‘sleep’ focus at 7:30, because usually when I turn off the sleep focus, I have a weather forecast on the lockscreen, and this might not work if you turn off the ‘deep sleep’ focus instead. But you’ll figure something out! :)