Concentration mode, what is it?

With iOS 15, Apple brings a whole bunch of new features to iPhone which are compatible with the operating system.Among them, concentration aims to match the behavior of your mobile to yours, throughout the day.With this mode, you can for example put a stop to all the notifications as soon as you want to stay quiet.If on the other hand you are at the office, then you can choose to receive only professional messages.Another scenario: by car, you can only activate the information received by your GPS or that From your calendar so as not to arrive late.

Apple offers several predefined concentration mode with iOS 15, which you can activate in seconds.As for the most skillful, they can also start From zero and create their own concentration mode From the eponymous interface of the iPhone.

To start, know that access to concentration mode is hidden in the adjustment app, between the menus and vibrations and screen time.There is no dedicated app at the moment.

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Configure an existing concentration mode

When you open concentration for the first time, Apple automatically offers you the mode Do not disturb.We can summarize by saying that this is the most restrictive.We will take it as an example to find out how to configure a concentration mode: you will see that the procedure is the same for the other modes.

Passenger for some people

Le mode Ne pas déranger vous ofFre plusieurs possibilités pour le régler à votre guise, dont celle de laisser passer tout de même quelques notifications parmi les plus importantes pour vous.First, you can allow certain specific people to contact you when not disturbing is activated.The procedure to do this is the following, and concerns both the calls and notifications From the apps where you exchange with these contacts:

1. Touchez Personnes >
2. Touchez + Ajouter
3. Cochez les contacts de votre répertoire à accepter (vous pouvez filtrer la liste en fonction des Groupes que vous avez déjà créés précédemment)

The people you want to add are now displayed.To delete them, just touch the - top right of their profile photo or the initial of their first name if necessary.The Delete Any option allows you to erase all contacts at once if you want to start again From the start.

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Incoming calls

In people, the authorizing menu is also limited to calls for certain categories of contacts.Here is how to use it under iOS 15:

1. Touchez Appels de
2. Choisissez Tout le monde, Personne, Favoris ou Tous les contacts
3. Vous pouvez aussi activer Autoriser les appels répétés afin de ne pas rater d’éventuelles urgence

Apple considers "repeated calls" the attempts of incoming calls renewed in three minutes.You should also know that the contacts you have added to the concentration mode previously are not taken into account for this call part.

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Allow certain apps only

Now that you have set your notifications according to your contacts, know that the mode does not disturb allows you to do the same according to your apps.The method is as follows:

1. Touchez Apps>
2. Touchez + Ajouter
3. Cochez les applications que vous souhaitez autoriser

The urgent option allows you to receive the notifications of apps which are not part of the list you have defined above, when they are marked as urgent.An adjustment to be defined manually yourself for each app.

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Other predefined modes: the method is the same to configure rest, time for oneself or work as for the mode not disturb.

Create a zero concentration mode

By opening concentration From the settings, touch the + at the top right.This will allow you to customize your own concentration mode according to your specific needs or situations, for example a meeting or the viewing of a TV series.

To start, touch personalized.

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Apple first asks you to name your concentration mode.We recommend that you use a short word or group of words that it is not truncated in concentration, for example "kitchen".Then, you will have to choose a color From a dozen different colors to choose From as well as an emoji illustrating the activity to regulate.

The parameters are then the same as for the predefined modes seen above: iOS 15 first offers you to authorize certain people, then apps.

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Other options

Concentration status

Activating concentration status keeps your contacts informed if you have disabled your notifications.For the sake of confidentiality, the recipients do not know what mode of concentration you have activated.On the other hand, they can choose to notify you anyway, which will be considered an urgent notification by your iPhone under iOS 15.

Homepage

On the iOS 15 home screen, small red pastilles with the number of notifications received are arranged at the top right of your apps From Apps.It is possible to deactivate them by touching the notification pastilles.

With customizing the pages, you can also choose to hide certain pages of the home screen when such or such a concentration mode is activated.For example, for a working day, you could choose not to display your toy library.

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Locked screen

Here, you can choose darken the locked screen for more tranquility if you have chosen to receive your notifications on it even if your concentration mode is active.To do this, activate on the locked screen.

Automatic activation

This option allows you to automate the activation of your concentration mode, depending on the time, a place (your home? Your office? Etc) or the opening of an app to clarify.

This is also where you can choose intelligent activation, where iOS 15 is responsible for activating the mode of concentration for you as soon as it detect a timely moment.However, we advise you to test this functionality knowingly, at the risk of missing out on important messages.

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