Focus works by temporarily blocking notifications, sounds, and alerts from apps and contacts. You can customize the settings to allow certain notifications to come through if needed.

Windows offers many ways to minimize distractions so it's easier to focus on tasks. You can declutter your taskbar and simplify the Start menu, use Focus assist to manage your notifications, and use the …

Schedule focus time through a focus plan, which automatically books focus time for you every day based on the preferences you set, or through single, non-recurring sessions.

Focused Inbox intelligently pre-sorts your email so you can focus on what matters. It places your most important emails in Focused and the rest in Other. Focused Inbox works across all your email …

Open new Outlook. Select View > View Settings . In Mail > Layout, select the account you want to apply the settings to. To turn it on - Select the option Sort messages into Focused and Other. To turn it off - …

(In Windows 10, select Focus assist settings and confirm Get all notifications from your apps and contacts is Off.) Locate Outlook in the list of senders and make sure its notifications are turned on.

You can see the cameras that are connected to your device and change the default settings for those cameras (such as brightness, contrast, and more). With administrator access, you can also disable …

Manage your device settings in Microsoft Teams. Customize your microphone and camera settings to change your sound and video experience on Teams.

Learn how to change your status or availability in Microsoft Teams, set a duration for your status, and see who's online.

How to use the focus plan in Microsoft Viva Insights to help you block regular time for your top-priority work by scheduling up to four hours every day to focus.