Spitball idea for iOS: When doing a screen recording, automatically turn on Do Not Disturb for the duration of the recording.
So many times when I’m recording my screen, say, to have a video to send a developer with a bug report, the recording gets ruined by an incoming notification.
@gruber@jwalke So great; I’ve just turned on. I regularly present my screen (technical trainer) and while Google Meet detects this and doesn’t show Mac Messages notifications while I’m presenting, Zoom and Teams still do, so I have to remember to set DND. I wonder if this setting will resolve that? SUPER vague description so time will tell, but thanks for the tip - pretty buried in terms of discoverability; I don’t keep a consistent schedule other than sleep so I’d have missed it! ✨
@gruber@jwalke This works as long as you don't have another Focus scheduled. There's a secret hierarchy for these Focus Modes that I haven't cracked yet, but it seems the manual schedule won't be overridden by Smart Activation. If I have no Focus active though, Screen Recording does trigger DND with Smart Activation enabled.
Something to keep in mind.
One activation that wins over any other Focus activation is an event trigger, like connecting a game controller or CarPlay, that always overrides the existing Focus Mode.
So let's hope Apple gives DND an event trigger for Screen Recording, that way it turns on and off automatically no matter the current Focus.
@gruber@jwalke Smart Activation will prove to be smart when it’s able to revert to a previous Focus Mode. There’s shortcut actions to turn on or off a Mode, not to go back to a previous one. I have ubiquitous Modes that would benefit from this feature in Smart Activation.
@gruber It’s a nice feature, which would be improved by excluding the notification about Do Not Disturb from the recording. We know this can be done, because if you capture a screenshot while the preview of your last screenshot is still hovering in the corner, that preview is omitted. Would save having to trim the beginning off of every screen recording.
On that regard, is it possible to automatically activate DnD for specific calendar events? I have some meetings on my calendar for which I’d love to pre-program in some way that “do not disturb” should activate automatically for that time slot
@gruber That’s weird because that’s exactly what it does for me!! Notice at the top here that do not disturb kicks in right after my recording starts? Why me but not you?
@gruber Weird place for this setting… I only saw it after tapping the option to add a new DND schedule. The control was not visible anywhere else. Once I did turn it on however, it is now in the focus mode menu, and there seems to be no way to get rid of it so I'm wondering if that was maybe a bug…
@gruber Those Focus-Modes are a UI-Mess. Try to set a custom screen in driving focus mode. Moreover the localisation for german is misleading. „Schedule“ is much more than „time settings“.
@gruber I know you’ve found a solution already, but mine was to create a “Recording” Focus Mode. Essentially the same thing, I suppose. The added benefit was a totally blank Home Screen to which I add the app(s) I’m demoing. This creates the appearance that they are the only apps installed on my phone.
@gruber And turn on microphone. A few times already, I have done entire screencasts, only to realise the microphone was off by default and no audio was captured. 😵💫
@gruber Maybe use shortcuts. I made one called Focus Pocus that opens then asked to use command ON or OFF). On being open FaceTime, set Focus on and my Nanoleaf lights to bright white. Done via Siri of course.
@gruber I was here yesterday. I restarted and right at the end of a seven minute video the stupid apple reactions explodes confetti on my bug report video.
@gruber It is quite odd how little communication there is within some OS features. Like WatchOS still reminding you to stand while in theater mode, or workouts not stopping when the device is put on the charger.
@gruber I keep DnD on my mac permanently for this reason and take my notifications on iPhone and iPad only instead. Similar to how the ringer is permanently off on my phone. Context-aware settings automations aren’t always reliable enough for me, and device-specific settings haven’t introduced difficult tradeoffs
@gruber Any reason why you can’t just set up a ‘focus mode’ for it?
A little annoying if you have to do it manually rather than allow ‘screen recording’ to be the trigger for it (screen recording didn’t seem to be in the list of allowed apps when I just took a look)
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