Apple’s Focus filters are a great feature, but they have a glaring blind spot: group chats (opens in new tab)

Introduced in iOS 16, are excellent in premise. If you’re in say, a Work focus, you can block out distracting apps, websites, and notifications. It even works in Messages, where you’ll only see texts from people in your Work focus. There’s one caveat with its implementation in Messages though, and it makes it much less useful for me than it could be. more…