This Windows 11 feature minimizes distractions and helps you focus

Speaker 1: Between social media texts, emails, phone calls, your pets S needing attention, your kids needing attention. It's a wonder that anything gets done during the day. Microsoft's new OS can take your dog for a walk, but it can help you quiet down those annoying notifications that can distract you throughout the day. Speaker 1: Focus assist is one of our favorite features in windows 11, and it can help you silence those seemingly endless stream of notifications from your apps and contacts. [00:00:30] Here's how to turn it on and make it work best for you. Open settings, click system, and then click focus assist. From there. You can choose between three options off means you'll get all notification from your apps and contacts priority only lets you customize a list of notifications and alerts to get or silence. Alarms only means just that any alarms that you set will go off at those times, but you won't get any notifications. You can also set up focus, assist to turn on during certain hours. So nothing disrupts you while you're watching your [00:01:00] favorite show, playing a game or doing your work. Let us know how focus assist helped you manage your distractions and follow CNET for more windows, 11 tips and tricks.