Windows 10: Focus Assist Won't Automatically Turn On

Discus and support Focus Assist Won't Automatically Turn On in Windows 10 Customization to solve the problem; I enabled the settings for Focus Assist to turn on automatically both when I'm playing a game and when I am running an app full screen. However, Focus... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Customization' started by E.Wolf1850, Aug 9, 2021.

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    I enabled the settings for Focus Assist to turn on automatically both when I'm playing a game and when I am running an app full screen. However, Focus Assist remains off and my games continue to be interrupted by notifications that I am thankful for any other time. This is most important to me for a multiplayer first-person shooter game called Hell Let Loose, but I tested other full-screen games with the same results. I saw an answer to another person's Microsoft question that said Focus Assist automatically turning on for a game only works for DirectX games, but Hell Let Loose is specifically

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    Questions about Focus Assist

    Thank you. Could you give me examples of Windows system notifications and can all of them be disabled? So, if I turn off the "get notifications from apps and other senders" setting I don't even have to disable other notifications' settings which remain turned on?

    What if I turn off notifications and Focus Assist, may I still have any notifications?
     
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