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without this control. It lets you set a maximum number of items

that your Action Center will round up.

Priority of notifications in action center. You can choose, for this
app, Top, High, or Normal to indicate its placement in the

notifications list.

Focus Assist: The Silence of the Toast

There are times when you might prefer not to be interrupted, distracted, or

awakened by the appearance (and sound) of any app’s notification bubbles.
Maybe you’re about to give a presentation and don’t want embarrassing
reminders showing up.

Setting up Focus Assist

When you turn on Focus Assist, the PC is quiet and dark. It doesn’t ring,
chirp, vibrate, light up, or display messages.

Yes, airplane mode does the same thing, but there’s a big difference: With

Focus Assist on, the PC is still online. Calls, texts, emails, and other
communications continue to chug happily away; they just don’t draw
attention to themselves.

Focus Assist is what you want when you’re in bed each night. You don’t
really want to be bothered with chirps for Facebook status updates and
Twitter posts, but it’s fine for the phone to collect them for the morning.

Bedtime is why Focus Assist comes with two fantastic additional settings:
one that turns it on and off automatically on a schedule, so the computer
goes dark each night at the same time you do, and another that lets you

designate important people whose calls and texts are allowed to get
through. You know—for emergencies.

Note

Focus Assist was called Quiet Hours in earlier Windows 10 versions.