Spend any time working and you're likely to get interrupted with notifications—whether it's incoming emails, system updates, new alerts, a pop-up about the next track on your playlist, or all of them ...

Sometimes it's hard to focus. When you have a dizzying number of screens pinging around you, they can be more distracting than helpful. But if some of those screens run one of the new versions of ...

Keep your distractions at bay with Focus modes — easier to set up than ever in iOS 16. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac and Nenad Stojkovic, CC BY 2.0/Wikimedia Commons Sometimes, you need your ...

Many of us are attempting to work from home, perhaps with kids jumping around. If you're struggling to concentrate, here are some tips: 1. Understand the evolved basis of why it's hard to concentrate ...

Thanks for this great question, Melvina! Many students are probably wondering the same thing as end-of-year assessments approach. To concentrate best we need to resist distractions. To do this, it ...

Focus is a problem. On average, people work for only three minutes before getting distracted or interrupted — and then it takes an average of 23 minutes to get back to that original task. Technology ...

It's like "Do Not Disturb" on steroids. Credit: Mashable / BOB AL-GREENE While Apple's Do Not Disturb feature has worked to a certain extent all these years, it's always lacked flexibility and ...

How attentive are you? One way to check is to run this little thought experiment: Sit quietly in a chair, with a second-hand watch or clock nearby, close your eyes, and check to see how long you can ...

iOS 16 gives you a lot more options to help tune out unwanted distractions and the terrible internet while having a bit of fun iOS 16 gives you a lot more options to help tune out unwanted ...