Windows 10: Windows 11... There's no "focus assist" in my action center.

Windows 11... There's no "focus assist" in my action center. I get no sound from the Alarm/Clock app when it goes off. I have lots of important alarms set. Each one "goes off" but without sound. All other apps and web browsers and video play sound perfectly fine. I notice my theme is set to "Custom" if that may be relevant.

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Focus Assistant on 1903

Greetings.

Can anyone help me figure out how the Focus assistant in Windows 10 build 1903 works exactly? Because right now I have it to"off" in the Setting menu, but everytime I do stuff it turns itself "on" by its own and keeps reminding me that "notifications will remain silent in the action center while you're in fullscreen mode". Here's how it behaves to me at the moment:

• Desktop only - Alarm Mode On (sleep symbol)
• Opening Edge - Focus Assistant Off
• Opening Settings - Focus Assistant Off
• Opening Mail - Focus Asistant Off

Everytime I close and open edge, system menu, mail, calender etc the notification center pops up this message. The way it worked before (on 1809) was that when I played games in fullscreen mode the sleep symbol on the action center became active, but everywhere else it was turned off. Now it seems to think that my desktop is in fullscreen mode? I don't understand how this works exactly. I can open and minimize Edge constantly and the sleep symbol in the bottom right corner will appear and disappear everytime.

 

2004 focus assist notfications & actions but focus assiant is turn off

Hi. I noticed the same thing. In my case even with Focus assist turned off, it is being used to get the Windows Defender scan notification in the Action list. In past versions I think it was Settings or Windows Explorer that produced that notification. Windows Defender scheduled scan rarely worked right in any Windows 10 versions. I created my own WD scheduled scan task which works perfectly. I'd be happy to show you how to create that task if you don't know how to. Good luck.
Mark

 

2004 focus assist notfications & actions but focus assiant is turn off

so despite you got focus assistant turn off you are still seeing under notifications & actions the word focus assist under sort most recent on banners sounds on I should just ignore that but will still get notify like windows defender summary scan in action center or other notifications?