Windows 10: How do I disable Focus Assist?

I see instructions on how to deactivate it but, despite the instructions, there is NO deactivate selection.I find it hard to believe this feature sic is beyond our control, besides modifying its behavior somewhat. I don't even know how it gets turned on! I'm assuming I have "fat fingered" something to turn it on but can't find how to turn it off. Quite annoying!Please! Someone from Microsoft tell us what to do! An admission of a mistake would be nice!

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Unable to disable Focus Assist

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I do understand how frustrating it could be when the features are not working as they are supposed to work. We would like to know the troubleshooting steps that you have performed so that we can eliminate the recursion of the steps.

However, as you have mentioned that Focus Assist gets re-enabled automatically after disabling it. This issue may be due to a profile corruption. Hence, in order to eliminate possibilities, I would suggest you to create a new user account, disable
Focus Assist and check if the issue persists. Follow the steps from the article
Create a local user or administrator account in Windows 10
to create a new user account.

Hope it helps.

Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Questions about Focus Assist

Hello, *Smile

If you turn off Get notifications from apps and other senders, it will disable notifications from everything except Windows system notifications.

Turning on Focus Assist will turn off all notifications until you turn off Focus Assist.

Turn On or Off Focus Assist in Windows 10

Customize Focus Assist Priority List in Windows 10

Change Focus Assist Automatic Rules in Windows 10

 

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?